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Kafka on the run.
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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 8
Answers and purpose at last!
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 8
The daring rescue goes about like daring rescues do… and look at that! Answers. So, last week I mentioned that Kurokawa (the thug governor) needed a better explanation,…
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 8
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Wait, they all have faces?
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Uninvested fightsCyberspace looks like garbageSurprise villain why?! Ex-Arm once again screws up in ways I wouldn’t even have expected. Pretty much the whole episode is just a brawl…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 8
Kicking things up so many notches. We start at about the speed Chainsaw Man is used to, with a lengthy morning from Himeno’s point of view, leading up…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 8
No Sagiri or Gabimaru today! Instead, we focus on the Emeshi girl, Nurugai, and the Executioners around her: Her assigned executioner, Tenza, and his blind mentor Shion. We…
Kaiju No. 8
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Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 1
So, this season we’ll be taking an episode-by-episode look at 86. Because this choice was kind of last-minute, it’s not really a show I’ve researched or know anything…
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Kafka turned into a kaiju after a flying, speaking kaiju flew into his mouth. Mysteries need solving in this show! Kaijuu 8-gou - Episode 1
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Kaiju No. 8 is a manga series by Naoya Matsumoto, set in Japan, Kaiju rampage through the city, terrorizing the civilians.
Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 1 (First Impressions)
I don’t remember this version of “The Metamorphosis”.
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 1
Yeah, I’m doing Chainsaw Man. What else could it possibly be with “more teeth” that I teased at the end of the last seasonal writeup? Often times, when…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 1
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Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 1
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Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 1
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Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 1
I love JRPGs. I know as someone who is at least a bit of a gamer that I shouldn’t utter that sentence, but I do. I like it…
Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 1
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Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 8
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Kaiju No. 8: First Impression
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KAIJU NO.8 ANIME ADAPTATION
Hey everyone! Today is my going feral day apparently. Yesterday it was announced that Kaiju No.8 is getting an anime adaptation and my brain experienced a meltdown. I…
Kaiju No. 8 – Ep. 2
I guess heroes really do come in all shapes and sizes.
Kaijuu 8-gou (Kaiju No. 8) – 02
The upside here is at least I don't have another bubble series to worry about.
Seasonal Selection – Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys Episode 8
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Seasonal Selection – Management of a Novice Alchemist Episode 8
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In this post, I share my thoughts on the first volume of the manga series ‘Kaiju No. 8’ by Naoya Matsumoto.
Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 1
Thus, we embark upon a show for which I can say this: it really wants you to think Isaac Asimov had a hand in it somewhere.
Kaiju No.8 Episode 2 Recap: “The Man Who Became a Kaiju”
At the end of the first episode of Kaiju No. 8, Kafka Hibino is infected by an unnamed kaiju and is transformed into Kaiju No. 8.
Is Kaiju No 8 worth reading?
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First Impressions – Kaijuu 8-gou (Kaiju No. 8)
Never has a series been more aptly-named when you're in my line of work.
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Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 11
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Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 11
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Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 9
The time for the great battle against Shin’s brother’s Shepherd form has come. The episode “feels” short, consisting essentially of two extremely powerful scenes rather than a lot…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 6
We spend most of this episode with Spearhead, oddly enough including an extended flashback scene to when the formation was first formed, having a fun cookout together. One…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 2
Plot 101: Introducing some more of our main story. Honestly, one thing I’m enjoying about 86 is how it’s been building up the world. In the first episode,…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 2
“The one where we actually integrate the main character into the setting” is an important plot beat for a lot of shows, particularly ones in the Urban Fantasy…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 9
So, I misread things last week – the smooth talker from Black Team wasn’t the big monster; he was in the scene already. In the first couple of…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 7
So, after the big turn of last episode, it’s time for downtime! Actually, I think it is kind of the correct time for this… or at least, a…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 4
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Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 10
This episode is again a very needed beat in the story, serving as the hero’s darkest moment before turning things around at the climax, and it comes at…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 5
So, to an extent, I was wrong. Shin’s brother got a more detailed address than I was expecting, even if, no, it wasn’t the crux of another transformation.…