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Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), Volume 2

Starting with volume 2, Gakkou no Yuurei began including live-action segments. Why? No idea. Perhaps live-action is less expensive to make....

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The Big O – Episode 21

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to return to The Big O, which we last left in a moment of total crisis,…

Wrong Every Time

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Asahi Graph Magazine (12/1999) – Analysis of Turn A Gundam by Sci-Fi Critic Nozomi Omori

The following is a translation from the December 1999 issue of Asahi Graph magazine. It is an article written by Nozomi Omori, a film critic and translator. A Modern Mature…

Moon's Cocoon

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The Big O – Episode 20

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re returning once more to the city of Paradigm, as Roger Smith attempts to divine what fragments of…

Wrong Every Time

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The Big O – Electric City

Science Fiction The Big O (1999)Electric City (Episode 3)Director: Tōru Kitahata Writer: Chiaki Konaka Film noir aspects in The Big O are always front and centre, right up…

Rhapsodise!

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The Big O – Episode 19

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am delighted to at last be returning to The Big O, after an outrageously overlong stay of…

Wrong Every Time

Yet another year of Anime Valentines!

  Yes, I’m back again this year with more cheesy puns for your Valentine needs. Save & print any card individually , or you can print them a...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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The Big O Review – 84/100 – Throwback Thursday

A review of both the 1999 and the 2003 seasons of The Big O, a cult classic mecha anime from Studio Sunrise.

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 25/26 [The War of the Paradigm City/The Show Must Go On] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to The Big O’s grand finale! This week was… The episodes were… This was a god damn trip alright. Even as I write this I’m not…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 23/24 [Twisted Memories/The Big Fight] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to the penultimate week of The Big O! Only one more to go after this, and then the review, and then a break for New Years…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 21/22 [The Third Big/Hydra] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to another week of Big O! Only two more left after this, which means its time to start thinking of our next series. If you have…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 19/20 [Eyewitness/Stripes] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to another week of The Big O! This week we have robot fights, some existential dread, and even romance for those that are into that sort…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 17/18 [Leviathan/The Greatest Villain] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to another week of The Big O! This is a fun week, a week of villains. Both of my favorites make a return, with Schwarzwald and…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 15/16 [Negotiation with the Dead/Day of the Advent] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to another (late) week of Big O! Apologies, lost track of time. This week we meet another android, rocks fall from the sky, and Rosewater finally…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 13/14 [R・D/Roger the Wanderer] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to the midway point of Big O! This week sees one season finish and another begin, a finale and a pilot, and let me tell you…

Star Crossed Anime

The Big O – 11/12 [Daemonseed/Enemy is Another Big!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to the almost half-way point of The Big O!  This week we kick off the Christmas season with a shockingly seasonal episode and begin the finale…

Likely systems

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The Big O – 11/12 [Daemonseed/Enemy is Another Big!] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to the almost half-way point of The Big O!  This week we kick off the Christmas season with a shockingly seasonal episode and begin the finale…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 9/10 [Beck Comes Back/Winter Night Phantom] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to week 5 of The Big O! This week sees the return of an old friend, Dorothy asking an important question and Dastun getting perhaps the…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 7/8 [The Call from The Past/Missing Cat] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back everyone, to week 4 of The Big O! Last week was a bit of a miss for me, neither episode was particularly great, though one still…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Big O – 5/6 [Bring Back My Ghost/A Legacy of Amadeus] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to week 3 of The Big O! This week gives us another pair of Monster-Of-The-Week stories. One follows a ghosts quest for revenge, the other an…

Star Crossed Anime

Episode 822: By the Grace of the O

This week on Anime Pulse we got real life mecha you can buy, anime batman piloting a robot, and a boat load of new manga. Up first Joseph…

Anime Pulse

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The Big O – 3/4 [Electric City/Underground Terror] – Throwback Thursday

Welcome all, to week 2 of The Big O! This week we get to travel outside the city, as well as beneath it, and meet both a new…

Star Crossed Anime

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The Taisho Report of the Week

Pokémon Sun & Moon (Manga), Douman Seiman, Ergo Proxy, The Big-O, Twinkle Park

The Taishō Café

Sotsugyousei Revisited

Back in the airly days (2013), Orphan did a number of projects based on the -uusei eroge franchise, starting with a three episode OVA from ...

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I'm Not Happy

can we talk? anime/music is from The Big O

Caribou-kun

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Inktober 2022 Archive: My First Time!

After years of hemming and hawing, I decided to actually do Inktober this past October. The results were, well, results. Especially with the state of Twitter being extremely…

OGIUE MANIAX

Laughing Target

Orphan concludes (for now) its Rumiko Takahashi festival with the third Rumic World OVA, 1987's Warau Hyouteki ( Laughing Target ). This is...

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 116: Endorsed by Hideo Kojima

We talk about both anime endorsed by Hideo Kojima this season, then hit the backlog because there’s not much else to watch.

The Glorio Blog

Kakyuusei (1995), DVD Edition

The world doesn't need another version of Kakyuusei (1995), but here's one anyway. An Internet pen-pal who goes by the handle of ProxyMan ha...

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The Big O – Episode 18

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m delighted to be returning to The Big O, where the assumptions that define Roger’s world are collapsing…

Wrong Every Time

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 107: Winter 2022 Anime Wrap-Up

We discuss the latest big changes at Crunchyroll, then vent our disappointment with the shows ending this season. Unfortunately yes, that includes Ranking of Kings.

The Glorio Blog

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 105: Foul Tarnished

We give our first impressions of Elden Ring, wrap up The Orbital Children and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean (for now), and discuss potential controversy with Ranking of…

The Glorio Blog

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 104: The Problem with Anime Awards

We discuss Crunchyroll’s 2022 Anime Awards, some shocking Nintendo Direct news, the Shenmue anime, and of course, the backlog. More Thunderbolt Fantasy!

The Glorio Blog

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The GLORIO Chat Episode 103: Dinosaurs with M-16s

We hit a wide variety of topics including the Lucifer and The Biscuit Hammer anime announcement, the latest in Saturday morning kids’ shows, and some backlog we’re finally…

The Glorio Blog

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The Big O – Episode 17

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’ll be journeying back to Paradigm, as Roger continues to uncover the secrets of his amnesiac city. That…

Wrong Every Time

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The Big O – Episode 16

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to return to the streets of Paradigm, where Roger and Dorothy have recently been making…

Wrong Every Time

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Learning To Love The Stereotypes

After all, these stereotypes and tropes came to be because so many people realized they were super fun.

Reasons to anime

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The Big O – Episode 15

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am delighted to be returning to The Big O, in the wake of a season premiere that…

Wrong Every Time

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The Big O – Episode 14

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to return to The Big O, where we last left Roger staring out at an approaching…

Wrong Every Time

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The Big O – Episode 13

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m pretty much bubbling over with excitement, as we’re about to explore the original “final” episode of The…

Wrong Every Time

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B.B. Fish

There just aren't enough anime about scuba diving. Yes, there was Grand Blue , but it was primarily a gross-out comedy. And there was Amanch...

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Sensou Douwa: Boku no Boukuugou

Sensou Douwa ( War Tales or War Fables ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…

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The Big O – Episode 12

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’ll be returning to The Big O, as Roger continues to unravel the secrets of Paradigm. Well, I…

Wrong Every Time

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The Big O – Episode 11

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to dive back into The Big O, and perhaps uncover a few more secrets regarding Paradigm’s…

Wrong Every Time

The Big O (Za Biggu Ō) [Boxing Day Review]

The Big O (Za Biggu Ō) 1999 You can no doubt predict exactly what I’ll say about episodic storytelling by now, right? This almost sums up the palette…

The Review Heap

The Big O – Episode 10

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’d like to return to The Big O, if that’s okay with you all, as I feel this…

Wrong Every Time

The Big O – Episode 10

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’d like to return to The Big O, if that’s okay with you all, as I feel this…

Wrong Every Time

My 5 Favorite Anime Endings

It’s the end of 2020… nearly. For December, I’m taking another hiatus to do some fiction writing. While I wouldn’t call it a grand finale, given how rough…

Sakura Sunrise