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Synduality: Noir – 24 (Fin) – Forward Together

Noir is the only Magus not shut down by Wiesheit’s order because she’s technically not a Magus, and never was. First inhabiting Mystere’s body and now the late…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #24 — Ultra Triangle Attack

  That carrot disturbs me. Impressions: Largely the same ending as High Card. They defeat the blathering idiot, slot an unqualified imbecile in to be the king of…

Tenka Seiha

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Synduality: Noir – 23 – Flight to the Final Dungeon

With his boss having abandoned him and the rest of Ideal, Nacht believes Tokio comes to gloat, but he’s not. Instead, he offers his hand in friendship and…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #23 — Space Wikipedia

  So they just built an entire spare rocket for fun? Impressions: You know, I think it would have actually been better if Histoire had turned out to be…

Tenka Seiha

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Weekly Seasonal Watches: Winter 2024 Season Week 11

It’s so wild that this was the week of seemingly penultimate episodes. Some shows like Synduality Noir and Metallic Rouge haven’t gotten into their final conflicts yet, fire…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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Synduality: Noir – 22 – For the Not-So-Great Cause

Weisheit wants Mystere’s black box in the worst way, so he sends a huge assault group led by Macht. Macht is eager to step out of Tokio’s shadow…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #22 — Are We the Bad Guys?

  What ever happened to that Team Rocket duo anyway? Impressions: In contrast to High Card, the best part of this episode was definitely the villain's nonsensical monologue.…

Tenka Seiha

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Synduality: Noir – 21 – Chant du Ciel Noir

While Mystere heads off to Carthage with Maria for more Histoire research, Ellie and Ange support Kanata as he works to get DaisyOgre back up and running. Noir,…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #21 — Lowest Budget Idol Scene Possible

  Even the mouth animations were jank. Impressions: And so we enter the third straight week of mourning Ciel. I know the intention is meant to be carrying…

Tenka Seiha

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Metallic Rouge – 08 – Between Freedom and Order

Rouge arrives at the Junghardt mansion with Ash and Noid just as her brother Gene discovered a secret passage. They discover a vast repository of Roy’s memories, most…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Synduality: Noir – 20 – A Better Way

Synduality takes a pause in its present-day narrative to tell two separate stories of yore. First up is a recording of Pascale both telling and showing Kanata, Mystere,…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #20 — Idiots of the Past

  What I'm getting here is that they're all imbeciles. Impressions: Flashback exposition week apparently continues. This time from the crazy old lady instead of a demigod, but…

Tenka Seiha

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Synduality: Noir – 19 – Guiding Light

On their way to Old Amasia, Ellie and Ange detect DaisyOgre and find Kanata sitting in the rain with Ciel’s lifeless body in his arms. It’s understandable that…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #19 — Staring at Girls in Comas

  What an enthralling twenty minutes that was. Impressions: Bleh. Both my girlfriends are in a coma, but maybe we can just plug them into the deus ex…

Tenka Seiha

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The Shadow Play (风中有朵雨做的云, Lou Ye, 2018)

An idealistic young policeman finds himself embroiled in conspiracy while investigating the death of a real estate tycoon in Lou Ye’s gritty Sino-Noir.

Windows on Worlds

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Episode #74 (S10E3) – A Colt is My Passport [拳銃は俺のパスポート] (1967)

In this episode, we dip into Nikkatsu’s noir catalog. Illustrator Joey Weiser joins the show to discuss A Colt is My Passport, a fun noir film featuring Joe…

Japan On Film

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Synduality: Noir – 18 – Songtress of the Sky

When Ciel reports to Weisheit, she plays things cool, but it was clear from the start that she remains conflicted. It’s all over her face, and Weisheit, who…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Night in Paradise (낙원의 밤, Park Hoon-jung, 2020)

A fugitive gangster encounters a terminally ill young woman in idyllic Jeju in Park Hoon-jung’s melancholy gangster noir.

Windows on Worlds

Synduality Noir #18 — Idol Martyr

  Nah. This show definitely doesn't have the balls to kill anybody off. Impressions: Now that Ciel finally went through with the reveal, it's time to jump straight…

Tenka Seiha

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 5

If you have trouble following what’s going on this episode, I think that’s intentional.

Harper Anime Reviews

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Synduality: Noir – 17 – Et Tu, Ciel?

Kanata’s dreams of finding Histoire are suddenly in tatters as Noir’s refusal to fade away has caused a critical fault in her and Mystere’s Magus body. When Maria…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #17 — Society of Masked Idiots

  Antagonists this season are having some issues. Impressions: I had to look up these idiots because I have zero memory of them whatsoever. Turns out they're the…

Tenka Seiha

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 4

Another down, five “Immortal Nine” to go, and it’s time to send in the clowns.

Harper Anime Reviews

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Synduality: Noir – 16 – Part of the Family

Kanata & Co. are back in Rock Town none the worse for wear, while Tokio AKA “Licht” has gone off to, I suspect, reckon with his former family.…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Endless Desire (果しなき欲望, Shohei Imamura, 1958)

A gang returning to dig up the stolen morphine they buried at the end of the war is slowly torn apart by their greed in Shomei Imamura’s darkly…

Windows on Worlds

Synduality Noir #16 — Behold the Bell Pepper

  And think of mortality. Impressions: They're not killing off the titular character to a show with about eight or so episodes to go, so this whole episode…

Tenka Seiha

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 3

Let’s build the world while we let Rouge fly solo for a bit.

Harper Anime Reviews

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Metallic Rouge – 03 – XX

Turns out Naomi and Rouge weren’t headed to Wellstown on a lark. Naomi delivers the “id” or core of Viola to a fellow agent and receives a new…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Box Art Extravaganza: January 2024 (Updated, Jan. 24)

It may be a new month of a new year, but the monthly cycle of releases remains the same, and along with them are pretty-looking packaging art. So,…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Synduality: Noir – 15 – Carthage Power & Light

Thanks to Ciel’s duplicity, we know what awaits Kanata and Noir/Mystere in Carthage, but she does her best to hide her guilt on the preceding road trip. Noir…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #15 — Robots Covered in Bird Poop

  You do not have that many gulls on a robot without incidents. Impressions: Why do I feel like they're half-assing the apocalypse these days. I remember when…

Tenka Seiha

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Metallic Rouge – 02 – The Stairs to Adulthood

Metallic Rouge swaps the Blade Runner aesthetic for the sparser, dustier Mad Max as Naomi and Rouge book a commercial transport across the Martian wastes to Welltown. Among the…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Box Art Extravaganza: January 2024 (Updated)

It may be a new month of a new year, but the monthly cycle of releases remains the same, and along with them are pretty-looking packaging art. So,…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 2

Few answers, but fewer new questions makes this feel like a slow-burn affair. Despite that, we still got some impressive action and solid world-building.

Harper Anime Reviews

Synduality Noir #14 — To the Moon!

  We have androids and mechs, but can't build a simple propulsion rocket? Impressions: Wait, how do they have global communications internet if satellites are some kind of unknown…

Tenka Seiha

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Synduality: Noir – 14 – Living Life Boldly

Maria tests a rocket for Mystere to confirm that the 10,000-meter altitude limit is still in effect after 20 years. Launching a rocket ain’t cheap, but Maria waits…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 1

Our story takes place in the grungy, noir-ish cityscape of Mars, where humans and robotic persons live side-by-side in a setting that simultaneously evokes 1920 and something more…

Harper Anime Reviews

My Winter 2024 Mecha (and Adjacent) Watch List

The Winter 2024 anime season is here, and at a time where it’s either isekai or not isekai, I always appreciate it when we do have more than…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Metallic Rouge – 01 (First Impressions) – The Colors, Children!

On a terraformed, cosmopolitan Mars of the distant future, there are still nightclubs with sultry singers in gowns and long gloves. One such singer is Sarah Fitzgerald, and…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

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Box Art Extravaganza: January 2024

It may be a new month of a new year, but the monthly cycle of releases remains the same, and along with them are pretty-looking packaging art. So,…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Synduality: Noir – 13 – The World Today

One thing we learn right away is that Kanata is most assuredly not an M. If he was, he’d relish the opportunity to be constantly run down, insulted, and…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Synduality Noir #13 — Recap Tour

  Maybe don't use the third person as a personal pronoun if you don't want to sound like a child. Impressions: Like High Card, another episodic action show…

Tenka Seiha

Review: Only the River Flows (2023)

Only the River Flows 河边的错误 China, 2023, colour, 1.85:1, 101 mins. Director: Wei Shujun 魏书钧. Rating: 5/10. Darkly-shot psychodrama-cum-whodunit is a brave stab at a China Noir but…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

Featured image for Endless Journey (三大队, Dai Mo, 2023)Background image for Endless Journey (三大队, Dai Mo, 2023)

Endless Journey (三大队, Dai Mo, 2023)

A disgraced policeman devotes the remainder of his life to catch the suspect who got away in Dai Mo’s strangely poignant Sino-noir.

Windows on Worlds

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A Very GLORIO 2023: Gee’s Last Will and Testament

Dramatic title aside, I’ve come to appreciate these posts as a way of leaving behind a definitive footprint. My feelings for these may change as time passes but…

The Glorio Blog

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Witch Hunter Robin Episode 7!

Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Welcome to my first episode by episode review of a full length anime episode from a full length anime series! This is…

Anime Hanabi

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Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon (The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter)

This anime isn’t an isekai, but it follows a lot of the standard isekai tropes. It features the protagonist, Noir, gaining a number of skills that make him…

Hexa Blog

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Synduality: Noir Anime Review

Every notable character in Synduality: Noir is unique but not necessarily above the archetypes that they represent.

Jotaku Network

Featured image for The Desperate (どろ犬, Takaharu Saeki, 1964)Background image for The Desperate (どろ犬, Takaharu Saeki, 1964)

The Desperate (どろ犬, Takaharu Saeki, 1964)

A bruiser cop railing against the system is pulled towards the dark side in Takaharu Saeki’s icy noir.

Windows on Worlds

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Have a spook with Le Collège Noir – Studio La Cachette panel at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023

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