One of my favorite moments in the anime Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne is when we find out the truth about the Jersey Club, the seemingly do-anything, help-anyone group that the main character Kyouno [...]
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Corticarte Apa Lagranges is today’s best girl. In case you don’t know, she’s the best of the best in the entire universe. You think someone else is better? Nope. Too bad. She’s not. Primarily in [...]
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I was asked, so here’s my answer. Spoilers ahead... sort of. Not really.Read more...
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With the anime season coming to an end, it’s the usual time for wrap-up posts on the series we’ve been watching the last three months.  Most of our links this week are to reviews of full series or of [...]
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Amiami is going to release the Kyono Madoka ( 京乃 まどか ) Mall Link Suit Ver. ( モールリンクスーツver. ) 1/7 PVC figure from the anime “Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne” ( 輪廻のラグランジェ ). Will be released in January 2014. Around 200mm tall, 6,800 yen. Official Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne homepage http://lag-rin.com/ via Amiami
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Final impression – a mecha series without the angst (8/10) Winter 2012 and Summer 2012 (24 episodes + 1 OVA) (English title – Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne) Madoka may be a boisterously cheerful, overly outgoing and enthusiastic young woman, but at the end of the day she’s just an ordinary high school girl with […]
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The energy drink in the anime series Rinne no Lagrange is becoming a reality when it becomes available for sale at the upcoming Kamogawa Sea Festa Event on June 1. There will only be a limited batch of 50 cases, each with 24 245-milliliter bottles. The city’s promotion committee looked into making the drink after [...]
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I’ve sat through some classics in years of anime watching. Gunbuster, Diebuster, Evangelion, Eureka Seven, RahXephon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, I may even include Star Driver in that list. A list of classic “god” robot anime that have made an impact, or at the very least been intensely devoted their own style of storytelling and atmosphere. [...]
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I’ve sat through some classics in years of anime watching. Gunbuster, Diebuster, Evangelion, Eureka Seven, RahXephon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, I may even include Star Driver in that list. A list of classic “god” robot anime that have made an impact, or at the very least been intensely devoted their own style of storytelling and atmosphere. [...]
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The home stretch. In one corner we have the De Metrio army lead by Lord Villagulio. And in the other we have the Le Garite army lead by King Dizelmine. Well, it looks like the end game has started. Dizelmine, influenced by Moid somehow, has unleashed Le Garite’s full force across their territories, especially Earth. [...]
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The home stretch. In one corner we have the De Metrio army lead by Lord Villagulio. And in the other we have the Le Garite army lead by King Dizelmine. Well, it looks like the end game has started. Dizelmine, influenced by Moid somehow, has unleashed Le Garite’s full force across their territories, especially Earth. [...]
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I keep forgetting how badly Rinne no Lagrange wants to be a slice-of-life show. In the last episode, Moid took off with an important artifact and fled to Le Garite and Lord Dizelmine’s side. Does the show address that situation?  No not really, instead we’re given a going away party for three bland, useless characters; [...]
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I keep forgetting how badly Rinne no Lagrange wants to be a slice-of-life show. In the last episode, Moid took off with an important artifact and fled to Le Garite and Lord Dizelmine’s side. Does the show address that situation?  No not really, instead we’re given a going away party for three bland, useless characters; [...]
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Episode 19 Soooo, it’s been awhile. I haven’t touched this series in (looks at calendar) – GEEZUS! Seven and a half months! Wow! If this series was gonna get a movie it would be almost animated by now! But I’m determined not to leave my work hanging. And since I’m actually invested in this series [...]
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Episode 19 Soooo, it’s been awhile. I haven’t touched this series in (looks at calendar) – GEEZUS! Seven and a half months! Wow! If this series was gonna get a movie it would be almost animated by now! But I’m determined not to leave my work hanging. And since I’m actually invested in this series [...]
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Introduction: “Gattai Girls” is a series of posts dedicated to looking at giant robot anime featuring prominent female characters due to their relative rarity within that genre. Here, “prominent” is primarily defined by two traits. First, the female character has to be either a main character (as opposed to a sidekick or support character), or she has [...]
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Introduction: “Gattai Girls” is a series of posts dedicated to looking at giant robot anime featuring prominent female characters due to their relative rarity within that genre. Here, “prominent” is primarily defined by two traits. First, the female character has to be either a main character (as opposed to a sidekick or support character), or she has [...]
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I mentioned previously that it’s conclusively proven that reinventing with improvement could be done in anime again and again (and not just in successful remakes like Kanon), but it does not suggest that it’s impossible to reinvent poorly or fail to reinvent. Rinne no Lagrange is a show that steals bits and pieces from everywhere [...]
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Omo: The whole Moid thing is pretty Tatsuo Sato-y. I enjoyed it but the way it ended seems anticlimactic, to say the least. But I enjoyed every bit about him in the final episode, it’s just great stuff. If it isn’t clear, I enjoyed parts of the ending, but overall it feels a bit empty [...]
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Whoops!  Looks like you were last Madoka! The scene gets me to laugh every time I watch it.  I love cute farewells like this and has inspired me to do the same with friends on a number of occasions.  And when thinking about scenes like this that occurred over the course of the year that [...]
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