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Answers and purpose at last!
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Another down, five “Immortal Nine” to go, and it’s time to send in the clowns.
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Let’s build the world while we let Rouge fly solo for a bit.
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Everybody gets punched day.
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May Bones continue on for 25 more years and then some.
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「紅は暁に奏でる」 (Kurenai wa Akatsuki ni Kanaderu) "Crimson Is the Sound of Dawn" Bones delivers on cybernetic action and sleek visuals for its 25th-anniversary anime.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 3: Naomi and Rogue investigate an Immortal Nine sighting in a Nean settlement. Naomi's snark went on a rampage!
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Metallic Rouge Episode 6: Naomi and Rouge headed to Earth on a luxury liner. Unfortunately, so did a murderer -- who could change appearance!
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Metallic Rouge Episode 12: Naomi and Rouge encountered someone they thought was Gene. But it talked a lot like someone else they knew.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 7: Rouge is imprisoned. Naomi, still free, drops a major bombshell about her true identity. Or did she?
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Metallic Rouge Episode 13: We finally know who killed Roy Junghardt – and now that person is about to wrap up the operation.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 8: Ash Stahl, Noid 262, Rouge, and Gene search her old home for clues to her origin. It was not a happy homecoming.
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Episode Guide for Metallic Rouge: Naomi and Rouge's mission: kill the people who killed Rouge's father. But things weren't what they seemed.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 4: Rouge, captured, tries to plan her next moves. Will Naomi help her? What will the detective from Earth do?
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Metallic Rouge Episode 11: Naomi and Rouge lead a team to Venus. Where their enemy is waiting for them. In force.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 2: Naomi and Rouge take a bus into the wilderness to look for clues. Unfortunately, they found mercenaries instead.
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Metallic Rouge Episode 9: Rouge had hoped Aes would help her. But it wasn't Aes; it was Alice. How will Rouge get out of this battle intact?
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Studio Bones’ celebrate their 25th anniversary with an anime original title!
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Rouge likes chocolate. That’s more or less the only coherent part of the plot.
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If nothing else, this looks like a showcase of how good Bones’ animation can get.
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Second Impressions – Metallic Rouge
I can’t shake the feeling that this is all very prefab, like a kit house - a Bones mecha series as designed by ChatGPT or Google Bard.
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Remember kids, don’t discriminate when your friend wants to buy some chocolate.