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Gone Gamblin’
We’re in A.C. as of Thursday afternoon, so no anime reviews until Sunday afternoon at the earliest. Have a lucky day—RABUJOI STAFF
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – 03 – The Sorrows of Young Master
~Moonlit Fantasy~ is scratching all the right irreverent isekai itches as Makoto comes to terms with the fact he now has not one but two gorgeous and horrifyingly powerful…
NIGHT HEAD 2041 – 02 – Diner of Illusion
In addition to showing us a lot of cool stuff, NH2K41 can add another feather to its cyberpunk cap: it’s able to cover a lot of narrative ground in…
TenSura – 39 – The Slime’s Gambit
Amen, Gobta. Gobta is me right now, after enduring another interminable episode packed with people standing or sitting around talking about everything they’re going to do instead of actually …
Tokyo Revengers – 14 – Kisaki Tetta Day
This week is essentially one long drawn out ceremony to announce the new third division captain of Toman: Kisaki Tetta, the one guy Takemichi can’t allow to gain…
To Your Eternity – 14 – Hail to the Chief
Fushi finds himself ensnared by the mysterious Tonari, who pushes him into a arena battle royale before he even knows what a battle royale entails. Once he realizes…
The Duke of Death and His Maid – 03 – A Distant Kiss
Bocchan loses a game of pool to Alice, and so cannot refuse when she asks if he’ll accompany her into town for a festival. Because many will be…
The Detective Is Already Dead – 03 – Sapphire in the Rough
Saikawa Yui is a nationally famous idol on the rise who also happens to be a ridiculously wealthy heiress. As her parents died three years ago, she is…
Kageki Shoujo!! – 03 – Toughing it Out
Ai is aloof, standoffish and antisocial, and makes it crystal clear even to a lunkhead like Sarasa that she doesn’t want to be friends with her or anyone…
Bokutachi no Remake – 03 – Getting Fired Up
BnR isn’t wasting any time, jumping from the realization Team Kitagawa only has a still camera to work with, to screening day. It was also somewhat disappointing that…
Meikyuu Black Company – 02 – Workers of Another World, Unite!
Taking in a pet behemoth wasn’t all it was choked up to be, but now both Ninomiya and Wanibe are reassigned to Raiza’ha Mining Corp.’s Exploration Division, Group…
Vanitas no Carte – 03 – Blood Laid Bare
Vanitas looks like he was in trouble when he was up against Jeanne the Hellfire Witch, but he employs his usual boisterousness to buy sufficient time for Thomas…
NIGHT HEAD 2041 – 01 (First Impressions) – It’s That Kind of Night
I’ll give NIGHT HEAD 2041 this: it gives you bang for the buck. There’s a metric fuckton of stuff to look at in its 22 minutes, and a pulsing,…
The aquatope on white sand – 02 – Idol into water
Kukuru accepts Fuuka’s sudden offer to work, but since shes only the summer director of the aquarium, she gives Fuuka a ride to her house on her scooter (not…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – 02 – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Shen may be a cool beauty now, but Shen finds her obsession with the historical dramas in his head tiresome. She even accidentally draws out a catgirl dating…
Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory – 01 (First Impressions) – Undress of Grievances
Nagumo Koushi is a 12-year-old sixth grader who is abandoned by his father after their house burns down. He’s wandering the streets starving to death when a green-haired…
TenSura – 38 – In Conference
Holey moley, I hope you like people sitting around either introducing themselves talking about stuff that’s already happened, or planning what’s going to happen next, you’re gonna…
The Duke of Death and His Maid – 02 – Moonlight Waltz
The third member of Bocchan’s family, Rob, makes his first appearance, and proves to be your typical jovial, dependable old butler who might just be a bit long in…
To Your Eternity – 13 – Acquiring Something Invisible
Less than a week after Fushi left Booze Man’s home and his found family, he wears a variety of facial expressions, wrestles with his grief, and questions his…
The Detective Is Already Dead – 02 – Heart of the Matter
Sometimes I pick up on the mystery at the beginning. From the moment Natsunagi Nagisa told Kimihiko she was the recipient of a heart transplant a year ago—the…
Bokutachi no Remake – 02 – On the Right Track
Given the chance to go back ten years, Kyouya has resolved to do a better job this time around, starting with taking a different path in choosing art…
Kageki Shoujo!! – 02 – Sink or Swim
The morning before their first day of actual classes, Ai deigns to attempt to wake Sarasa up…in the gentlest and most ineffectual way possible. But their class rep…
Vanitas no Carte – 02 – A Matter of Application
I’ll admit it: I missed the airship this week. They didn’t show as much of it as I would have liked even last week, just as they don’t…
Meikyuu Black Company – 01 (First Impressions) – Report, Remind, Review
What am I doing, reviewing a show better suited for either Preston (fantasy) or Zane (comedy)? Because I have the fewest shows so far. See, I’m not like…
The Aquatope on White Sand – 01 (First Impressions) – A Strange Place Still Near Home
First of all, kudos to Aquatope for starting out so cleanly and crisply, with a series of shots of Misakino Kukuru’s quiet Okinawa hometown that were so summery and…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – 01 (First Impressions) – Oh, The Humanity!
Unknown to regular kid Misumi Mikoto, his parents are actually immigrants from another world who made a deal with that world’s Goddess. They were sent to Earth, and…
TenSura – 37 – Fellowship of the Slime
Rimuru and the gang are back, and like most TenSura premieres, it’s far more a quiet easing into the hot spring than a cannonball into lava. That said,…
The Detective Is Already Dead – 01 (First Impressions) – To Have and to Hold
Kimihiko Kimizuka just wants to live a normal dull life. But like Kamijou Touma’s tendency towards misfortune (if being surrounded by poweful cute girls all the time is…
Tokyo Revengers – 13 – XX
Why? Why is this show still going on? Why did Hina have to die, again, and in the most horrific, heart-demolishing way? What was Kisaki Tetta up to…
The Duke of Death and His Maid – 01 (First Impressions) – Ducal Distancing
An young duke (or Bocchan) is cursed by a witch at age five to bring death to any living thing he touches, like the Grim Reaper, AKA Death.…
Kageki Shoujo!! – 01 (First Impressions) – The Immovable Beanpole vs the Unmovable Idol
The apathetic, man-loathing, recently disgraced idol Narata Ai (Hanamori Numiri in top form) enrolls and is accepted into the exclusive Kouka School for Musical and Theatrical Arts, which…
Bokutachi no Remake – 01 (First Impressions) – To Be an Artist Is to Believe in Life
Bokutachi no Remake’s first episode is fifty minutes long, giving it a cinematic quality. While there’s no combat or explosions, there is a lot of heart and a…
Kanojo mo Kanojo – 01 (First Impressions) – Good Faith Violation
Saki and Nagisa seem like nice people and are very cute, coming straight form the Quintessential Quintuplets school character design—not surprising as Tezuka Productions and director Kuwahara …
Vanitas no Carte – 01 (First Impressions) – Airships and Airheads
Bones usually does a good job, and Vanitas is no different: it’s a slick, classy, attractive, crowd-pleasing steampunk vampire caper with airships and a healthy sense of humor and great…
Wonder Egg Priority – 13 (Fin) – Deus Eggs Machina
Instead of being represented by an angel and a devil perched on her shoulders, Neiru works through her indecision by giving voices to her bunny slippers. She determines…
Peach Boy Riverside – 01 (First Impressions) – Carrot Debt
Peach Boy Riverside drops us right into the middle of former princess Sally’s journey away from home. She has a positive, can-do attitude as ample as her pants…
Scarlet Nexus – 01 (First Impressions) – Sisters and Brothers Fightin’ the Others
From Sunrise comes a new Railgun-esque sci-fi action show centered around a group of young, elite psionic soldiers pooling their various abilities to defeat the invading Others, who are…
To Your Eternity – 12 – Crushmore
Don’t let the punny review title mislead you; this episode did indeed crush me emotionally, just as it emotionally crushed Fushi and Rean and physically crushed poor Big…
Higehiro – 13 (Fin) – Not the Last Time
With Yoshida having said his piece and even kinda-sorta getting through to Sayu’s awful mom, it’s Sayu’s turn to talk to her. She takes a page out of Yoshida’s…
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, High School Girls
Fruits Basket – 63 (Fin) – A New Banquet
Tooru and Kyou go to a petting zoo for their first official date—a bit on the nose, but also adorable! Also adorable? Uo and Hana tag along as…
Tokyo Revengers – 12 – Hina We Go Again
I knew two things going into this twelfth episode of Tokyo Revengers: this wasn’t the last episode, and Hina was most likely doomed…again. I was hoping to be proven…
Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro – 12 (Fin) – The Exhibition
With the cultural festival fast approaching, Naoto has managed to belt out a whole series of Nagatoro Being Nagatoro, and her friends are impressed. Hayacchi herself is happy…
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent – 12 (Fin) – Quite the Day
After Drewes and Aira join the battle in the forest, we’re back in Krausner’s capital experimenting with crops with the Alchemist lady. Both she and the Gran Magus…
Zombieland Saga: Revenge – 12 (Fin) – Not Leaving It Up to God
ZSR’s totally epic saga of a finale starts out very stodgily, at the Saga Prefectural Office’s Special Task Force HQ. There’s a wonky procedural flavor to the proceedings reminisc…
Super Cub – 12 (Fin) – Girls’ First Tour
Koguma says “I’m off” to no one as she leaves her spartan apartment (put up some Super Cub posters!) in the early morning to meet up with Reiko…
To Your Eternity – 11 – The Life Platonic with Steve Gugu
It’s been four years. Gugu is now hu-huge, while Fushi has aged, since he hasn’t changed form since Gugu saved him from the Nokkers. Rean still comes by…
Fruits Basket – 62 – Parting Gifts
Fruits Basket continues its crowd-pleasing Farewell to the Curse tour by checking in on Yuki—Remember Yuki?—and Machi, picking right back up on his sudden and intent desire to see…
Higehiro – 12 – We Have to Talk
So yeah, things are not off to a great start when the first thing Sayu’s mom does upon laying eyes on her for the first time in half a year…
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, High School Girls
Tokyo Revengers – 11 – Everybody Breathe
After a number of horrifying twists and turns and some truly epic beatings, Takemichi and his friends finally catch a goddamn break. The bad guys hear sirens and decide to…
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train – All Aboard
In 2020, and what I believe to be the first time ever, the highest grossing film of the year wasn’t American. It wasn’t Chinese, either, which one could…