Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Yesterday, Media Blasters unveiled the full English dub cast for Rio – Rainbow Gate! The series will [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand~ Earlier today, Media Blasters unveiled four cast members for their Rio – Rainbow Gate! dub. The series [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. File this one under “Why would you do that?” Joking aside (and I am joking!), last week, Media Blasters announced that they are producing an [...]
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According to the official Facebook page of Media Blasters, it seems that Hulu will be getting a new series this coming October. While everyone will be busy with the new season, some of you will be [...]
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This is review number one hundred and sixty one. It’s still part of the Winter 2011 lineup. It’s an anime called Rio: Rianbow Gate! It’s a decent show about a hot girl playing games and other stuff like that. The anime is thirteen episodes long and I think it’s pretty good. Let’s read on. Story [...]
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Since I had a little downtime a couple weeks ago, I decided to give some series from the last couple of years a second go. One of those series was Rio: Rainbow Gate, a 13-episode anime from 2011 about Rio, a popular casino dealer, and her quest to become the MVCD (most valuable casino dealer). A [...]
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Can you believe it’s nearly Christmas already!? I haven’t been with the blog very long but it feels like I joined just yesterday. I know everyone says it but it’s incredible just how quickly the year flies by. Anyway, as is something of an anime blog tradition, we’re kicking off the 12 days of anime [...]
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I’d been meaning to finish off Rio: Rainbow Gate for a while. The first few episodes were kinda lame, but once I heard that the series embraced it’s absurd premise and went all-out, I had to see the beautiful mess peeps were claiming it was. And yeah, it was pretty awesome. But I gotta go [...]
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Episode 7: Antlion The Sky resort is still flying high up in the sky. Rina, Anya and Mint are informed by Mr. Howard that Cartia has another challenger in a gate battle against Rio. Anya complains that it has only been two hours, having two gate battles in one day is absurd. According to Mr. [...]
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What is with the obsession with cards in anime anyway? Rio: Rainbow Gate! is based on a series of pachinko games…and it shows. Rio is the most popular dealer in the Howard Resort. She has the mysterious ability to give … Continue reading →
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I suppose what appalled me the most about this 4-hour long charade of subtle porn, debauchery and a mind-numbing lack of any semblance of plot or logic whatsoever was that ,contrary to what most people say, it seems that it … Continue reading →
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I suppose what appalled me the most about this 4-hour long charade of subtle porn, debauchery and a mind-numbing lack of any semblance of plot or logic whatsoever was that ,contrary to what most people say, it seems that it … Continue reading →
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Rio - Rainbow Gate! is the ill-thought-out child of a deal between anime production company XEBEC and game manufacturer Tecmo to market characters used in their games. If that sounds like a match made in hell, you may be onto something, as this is a series that really doesn't seem to know what it wants to be... Read more...
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Episode 12 A story of gambling…and porn. Adapted and improved for Paper Flower by mefloraine hirasawa (the all-lowercase-ness is an important part of her name) and Raph Fail (of Borderline Hikikomori). This episode opens with Ze Pimp uselessly not calling out Goldschmidt (AKA the bad guy) for cheating in Rio’s last match. Also, Rio is dying. [...]
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Anime: Boobs: The Show! Rio: Rainbow Gate! Animation Studio: Xebec Number of Episodes: 13 Length per Episode: Approximately 24 minutes (feels more like 2400 minutes) You know, whenever a show is an original storyline and not being adapted from anything, it’s usually expected to be quite good. There’s nothing to compare it to, and the [...]
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A story of gambling…and porn. Adapted and improved for Paper Flower by mefloraine hirasawa (the all-lowercase-ness is an important part of her name) and Raph Fail (of Borderline Hikikomori). This episode begins with ken-ken-pa~ ken-ken-pa~ We meet the best character ever: Yang-Yang. She is so awesome, even mef remembers her name. Her special ability is to [...]
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A story of gambling…and porn. Adapted and improved for Paper Flower by mefloraine hirasawa (the all-lowercase-ness is an important part of her name) and Raph Fail (of Borderline Hikikomori). And someone who is just trying to hog credit this week without any work. {Raph: Hey! I changed a word a letter, and added a small comment! [...]
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A story of gambling…and porn. Adapted and improved for Paper Flower by mefloraine hirasawa (the all-lowercase-ness is an important part of her name) and Raph Fail (of Borderline Hikikomori). Hi, everyone! What, we missed three weeks? Oops. We were not sure whether we should tell you that our posts were eaten by Rio’s boobs (untrue), they [...]
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Episode 6: Roll Ruler Mint and Choco are in a spacecraft, which is launched into space. Mint pilots the ship towards several floating orbs, which glow upon impact when Mint bumps them. She is play some kind of space pinball game and it is making her dizzy. She heads towards an asteroid which she destroys [...]
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Episode 5: Sky Resort Linda is lowered into a room by machines. She is placed in a chair in the middle of the room and she opens her eyes and we see computer imagery in them. Meanwhile Rio is in bed and is screaming that she has overslept having spent most of last night talking [...]
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