Why exactly was he carrying some random severed heads around? Impressions: Aaah, the prime comedy of the season, back to form. From juggling severed heads and making them kiss, to breakdance fighting a dude with a million rocket hands stuffed in his back, to turning into a giant hamster ball and rolling around. It's […]
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The Kingdoms of Ruin
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The Kingdoms Of Ruin
Episodes: 12 Summary: Witches were once respected for the wisdom and magic they gifted to humans. But with the rise of the Gear Expansion era, the new science…
The Kingdoms of Ruin #06 — Brainwashapalooza
I can't wait to make an astroTERFing pun. Impressions: Speaking of two minute recaps, this one had one too. As if the budget wasn't bad enough. It…
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The Kingdoms of Ruin – Episode 1
A revenge story that wastes its potential by immediately killing the interesting female protagonist so that a guy can feel sad about it.
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 10) – The Eyes That Were Lost
Shirousagi has tracked down Adonis and Doroka and is planning on taking Adonis’ head to the Queen. At first, Adonis was confident that he could beat him, but…
The Kingdoms of Ruin #08 — Idol Propoganda
Was this supposed to be a music themed episode? Impressions: Having whipped the entire world into an anti-witch frenzy, brainwashing and assassinating the king, his immortal teenage wife…
The Kingdoms of Ruin #05 — Moon Jelly
More blood means more serious and grim and dark, right? Impressions: How can you not laugh at this show? It wants to be so gory and dark…
The Kingdoms of Ruin #05 — Moon Jelly
More blood means more serious and grim and dark, right? Impressions: How can you not laugh at this show? It wants to be so gory and dark…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 8) – Coronation
Adonis and Doroka travel through the desert in search of human cities to destroy. Meanwhile, Dorothea is to be crowned as the Queen of Redia following her husband’s…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 11) – Knightfall
Shirousagi took Doroka’s eyes. Adonis fought back and then took Doroka away so he could do something about the bleeding. Once she was in a better condition, he…
Kingdoms of Ruin #12 — Environmental Disaster
Those poor velociraptors. Impressions: So, wait. He always had this super duper nuclear ice spell capable of freezing an entire continent, and was just sitting on it…
Kingdoms of Ruin #01 — Gulag Muppets
Uh… okay. Impressions: I could spend two paragraphs just listing out the utter nonsense that makes up this setting, but I'll restrain myself to just the high…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 2) – Heavenly Fire
Adonis, Chloe’s apprentice is free after ten years in prison and he’s been thinking about what he’ll do when he gets out. The country that took Chloe from…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 6) – The Witch Doroka
The humans attacking Lunamilia suddenly stop, frozen in their tracks. Doroka used a love spell to make them all obey her commands, however, Yamato is so quick to…
The Kingdoms of Ruin #03 — Poking the Demon Core
Why do you not at least have 2FA for your doomsday device? Impressions: Right now, I'm enjoying this pretty much only because it's complete nonsense, but it's…
Kingdoms of Ruin #04 — Behold My Lemon
…Okay, but why do you even have a lemon? Impressions: A pretty boring exposition-heavy episode mostly about things that don't actually matter, especially in the first half.…
Kingdoms of Ruin #02 — Gratuitous Pudding Splattering
Is everybody with pink hair in this show a clownish idiot? Impressions: I'm not saying that the evil empire isn't filled with murderous psychopaths. They are. To…
Kingdoms of Ruin #11 — Bisectual Slut Shaming
What? She was some kind of outcast evil witch? Since when? Impressions: Meh. I'm here for the unhinged nonsense, and this was pretty lacking on that front.…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 4) – The Nation of Witches
Adonis finds himself in a strange place surrounded by beautiful women. Despite his body trying to rip itself apart, there’s a calmness in the air. Somehow, he has…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 3) – A Gentle Death
Adonis just saw Doroka killed in front of him, and after she told him they could revive Chloe. Well, if he wasn’t mad before(he was), he’s definitely pissed…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 12) – Love and Revenge
Doroka has cast a love spell on Adonis and it’s boosted all of his abilities, both physical and magical. With this newfound power, he obliterates Shirousagi, casting a…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Season One) – Hametsu no Oukoku
Witches have watched over humanity for aeons, but now mankind wants to go it alone. Determined to push forward, they hunt down and kill every witch they can…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 5) – Joy to the World
Adonis decided not to revive Chloe because she was not really welcome with the witches or the humans. Instead, he revived Doroka, but he also brought something else.…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 9) – The Ruined Kingdom of Mamuta
Adonis and Doroka arrive in Mamuta and find a city that appears to have been long since abandoned. The only things there are Madoa, mechanical sex dolls who…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 9) – The Ruined Kingdom of Mamuta
Adonis and Doroka arrive in Mamuta and find a city that appears to have been long since abandoned. The only things there are Madoa, mechanical sex dolls who…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 1) – And So, Our Story Begins
God created witches to help humanity grow, but they’ve grown beyond the need for witches and now see them as a reminder of their own fragility. The extermination…
Kingdoms of Ruin #09 — A Large Pile of Killer Sex Bots
Spare a thought for the poor tragic killer sex bots. Impressions: Clearly this show hasn't lost its mind completely as we stumble into an abandoned city that…
Kingdoms of Ruin #07 — I’ll Have My Own Post-Apocalypse
There are pet velociraptors now? Impressions: I was settling in for a tedious, talky, angsty episode after the first five minutes or so, but man, I underestimated…
The Kingdoms of Ruin (Episode 7) – Stand by him. Stand by her.
Adonis knew the humans would be waiting for him so he changed the destination of their teleportation. That dropped them in the desert where they were picked up…
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