This was very much an expected return to form for Helck. Read more
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Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 06
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 08
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Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 08
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Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 08
This is not high art by any stretch of the imagination, but it's hard not to smile.
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Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 10
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 05
The voters have spoken. Read more
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 11
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 06
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Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 04
Was this interesting? I guess sort of, though that's very much in the eye of the beholder.
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Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 07
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Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 06
I almost expected him to light a cigarette.
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There are times in this series where it straddles the line between entertainment and commercial.
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 12 (Season Finale)
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Ironically given the series' title and theoretically its central theme, Shoushimin suffered from nothing about it really being extraordinary.
Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 10
On the whole this ep was more like a Blu-ray extra than a real episode of the series, with all that implies.
Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 06
There were several interesting elements in this episode of Atarashii Joushi, along with the usual handful of guffaws.
Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 07
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Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 05
This week was probably the most shameless episode of Atarashii Joshi wa Do Tennen yet, and the weirdest too.
Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 04
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Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 11
It's great that Shirosaki is so protective but Momose needs to take control of his life here.
Patron Pick Fall 2023: Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen – 09
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Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 24
Seriously, this guy is the nitrogen of Japanese actors.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 19
I kind of knew pretty early on that I should never have dropped Trillion Game.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 22
Trillion Game has a secret weapon - Haru and his balls of steel.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 18
Some things are just destined be be niche, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 20
Not for the first time I think Trillion Game is a pretty un-Japanese story in many ways.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 21
You know it's a momentous episode when you get an eleven-"bababa" exclamation as we did this week.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 23
This is Haru time, make no mistake.