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They Identify as Bugs – Blue Gender Spoiler Review

Putting humanity on the brink is nothing new in anime. Threatening our species with extinction at the ends of the various appendages of some menace, alien or otherwise,…

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Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episode 1

This one is going to be from the perspective of a Manga reader, be warned.

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The Clothes Make the Waifu – Tsugumomo Spoiler Review

So, I think Tsukumogami are a sort of interesting subject. Surprising probably no one, in addition to anime itself I kind of have an interest in the culture…

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“Twenty-four! Ah-ah-ah! Twenty-four Episodes of this!” – Plunderer Spoiler Review

Anime has a lot of premises that are pretty odd, doesn’t it? Concepts you just sort of have to roll with in order to even start the show,…

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A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Where There Is Only War – Armored Trooper Votoms Spoiler Review

Sometimes I feel like I don’t crack into enough vintage anime on this blog. Before streaming, before DVR, the industry for basically all things television was a different…

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The STL of a Double Feature – Gundam Build Divers & Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE Spoiler Reviews

I love model kits. I have made no secret of that this month, and will probably be happily assembling various mechas and mecha musume into the future. I…

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 10

So it turns out that red doesn’t have to go versus blue.

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The Plamo of a Double Feature – Gundam Build Fighters & Gundam Build Fighters Try Spoiler Reviews

Ah, Mobile Suit Gundam… it’s kind of a marvel that no entries in such a huge and venerable series had made it onto the review blog up until…

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It’s Only a Model – Busou Shinki Spoiler Review

So, some time ago I reviewed Frame Arms Girl, a show based on a line of plastic model kits, depicting the mecha musume girls from the kits as…

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Earnest Fakery – Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (plus .flat and Fine) Spoiler Review

Rounding out a February of warped love we have Saekano: the harem romcom about making a dating sim visual novel. On paper, Saekano is about the trials and…

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Sisterly Lust – Kiss x Sis Spoiler Review

Well, it’s Feburary, and because this month contains a holiday certain cultures associate with love and sexuality, I end up slotting it full of reviews of shows that…

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Putting the Hentai in Sentai – Super Hxeros Spoiler Review

So, if you thought the plot for last week’s entry sounded like an overly complicated excuse for porn, get a load of Super Hxeros: In a world assailed…

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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.

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Make Out For the Sake of All Mankind – Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia

Someone seriously asked the question “What if we had Infinite Stratos but the super suits are literally powered by arousal?”. That idea got greenlit for real. And you…

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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.

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Zero to Hero(ine) – Ga-Rei-Zero Spoiler Review

You know it, you love to see it: a world where it’s the modern day except secret ghosts and ghouls menace reality and are fought off by equally…

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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 3

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

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In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there are Little Girls – Black Bullet Spoiler Review

Well, if an idea isn’t broke, don’t fix it. Instead, remix it! Here we have a very classic and functional idea, a world where humanity is on the…

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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.

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Once More With Schoolgirl Assassins – Lycoris Recoil Spoiler Review

Almost two whole decades after the original Gunslinger Girl, along came a show that took the anime-viewing world by storm with basically the same pitch: In the ambiguously…

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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…

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Back, in Action – Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino Spoiler Review

Il Teatrino is the sequel to last week’s review, Gunslinger Girl. Produced after five years, it has some significant discontinuity from the “first season” and thus today I’m…

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Slice of Death – Gunslinger Girl Spoiler Review

Gunslinger girl is a unique show. The pitch is this: in the ambiguous near future, the government of Italy Social Welfare Agency is a front that picks up…

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Eighteen Years, and Dead No Longer – Erased Spoiler Review

Hm… unless I miss my mark, there’s some kind of festival going on right now. Usually, I give everyone a present by cracking into some of the worst…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 12

This is the madness I wanted to see – something on screen more strange and engaging than the panel with Yoko Taro in a leprechaun mask hyping it…

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Blast from the… 2023?! – Giant Beasts of Ars Spoiler Review

So, when you look back at older Fantasy, in a certain time frame for anime and a different one for Western media, there’s this palpable “anything goes” feeling…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 11

Dimension-bending mayhem is upon us! Those of you who have joined me on this ride, I think we’re now being at least somewhat rewarded for our patience.

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Ecchi Express – Rail Wars! Spoiler Review

Rail Wars! (the title is excited) is another in a long, long line of shows that try distinct themselves by doing the exact same thing all the others…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 10

Just when you thought this thing looked normal, Yoko Taro decided it was time to remind you of his involvement.

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Nausicaa in White – Kaina of the Great Snow Sea Spoiler Review

It should come as no surprise, given I’ve put down my thoughts on selected Ghibli films that I’m something of a fan of Nausicaa of the Valley of…

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You Will Go To Space Today – Rocket Girls Spoiler Review

Welcome to Anime-land, where cute girls can do anything in a bid to make that anything more engaging… even if that anything was already something really engaging like…

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Does CG Anime Bug You? – Cagaster of an Insect Cage Spoiler Review

Cagaster of an Insect Cage is another in the long line of shows that take place ambiguously in the future, where the only terrain we see on Earth…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 7

Goro may be only mostly dead, but that still means it’s Honoka’s turn to steal the show. So, what’s Yuno minus the -dere up to today?

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More Clever than it Sounds – Rideback Spoiler Review

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… wait, I already used that intro last week? Um… Rideback! So, yeah, Rideback in extremely reductionist theory is another of…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 6

The long-awaited debut of Goro’s Idol, Iyo, appears to be slightly posthumous.

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Everything Zero – Yurei Deco Spoiler Review

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: in the nebulous future, all known civilization is ruled in a very skewed and dystopian way that seems to make…

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Seeing is Believing – Mieruko-chan Spoiler Review

Well, we’re at the end of October, and as much as I’d love to lead the armies of Halloween to reclaim calendar territory from the Christmas occupation forces…

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Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 4

Cast felt naked for a bit, we’ve got some new friends (and enemies) to eventually kill.

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