it’s all about perspective! There were a good handful of shows I pushed to the top of my to-watch list this spring, many of which are sequels. Sure, there were some very hyped newer shows, bu…
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Train to the End of the World
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Train To The End Of The World Anime
What makes good science fiction? This is a question that I have been asking a lot as I watch Train To The End Of The World, streaming now…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 11
Episode Synopsis: The girls arrive in Ikebukuro, and Pochi immediately picks up on Yoka’s scent. When they find her, though, she doesn’t seem to recognize them, and their…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 06
Episode Synopsis: Our intrepid train now has a name; Apogee! The name is revealed by Shizuka to be a tribute to a word Yoka taught her. As the…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 03
Episode Synopsis: The girls’ day-long journey from Agano has brought them to… East Agano. Here, as portended by the map from last episode’s weirdo, all of the residents…
First Impression: Train to the End of the World
Nakatomi Youka is a girl in a big city who is just going about her own business, when she’s suddenly plucked from the street to witness the start…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 04
Episode Synopsis: The girls pull through several increasingly unsettling stations as the real scope of their journey starts to sink in. As they dodge bizarre and frightening phenomena,…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 1
This is an anime-original project written by Yokote Michiko. With this one sentence, a non-insignificant number of you will be able to make up your minds about whether…
Train To The End of The World, Season Finale
Of the several, Yuri, Yuri-adjacent and Yuri-adjacent-adjacent series (which I differentiate internally from “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Cutely’ series, which is why I keep using phrases as…
Train to the End of the World Review — B
Train journey through a transformed magical world.
Train to the End of the World – Episode 10
Episode Synopsis: The girls stop for a broken down cart on the tracks, which ends up being owned by Shizuru’s lost father and his friends! He tells them…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 09
Episode Synopsys: Yoka is living in Ikebukuro, her reality-altering powers (and by extension the current state of the world) kept nervously under control by Pontaro and his henchman,…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 05
Episode Synopsys: Shizuru and Reimi escape from their Gulliver-like captivity with the help of another person working unwillingly for the town. Together they knock out the guards and…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 12
Episode Synopsis: The girls give chase as Pontaro tries to flee with Yoka. Aided by Kuroki’s zombies, they manage to board his getaway train and defeat him, but…
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Train to the End of the World – Episode 07
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Train to the End of the World – Episode 01
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Train to the End of the World – Ep. 3
Not the kind of shrooms I want to take.
Train to the End of the World – Ep. 2
And then they all died.
Train to the End of the World – Episode 06
Episode Synopsis: The Apogee continues through a few more brief but harrowing stops before arriving in a town that has been transformed into the setting of a popular…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 02
Episode Synopsis: The girls discuss the logistics of their trip to Ikebukuro. Due to leaving in a hurry, and the unknown distance they must traverse, there’s food inventory…
Train to the End of the World – Episode 08
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A Locomotive of Motives: Train to the End of the World
I don’t know if Train to the End of the World is a true turning point in anime, but it feels like an important intersection of a lot…
I Would Ride the Train to the End of the World
It’s time I stop putting off my review of this show, despite it being one of only a handful of shows I had taken the time to talk…
Train to the End of the World Episode 1: Twisted Future
Going into this show I got Girls’ Last Tour vibes from the trailers/PVs. Was I proven right by the premiere?
Shiny New Anime Prep – “Train to the End of the World”
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Train to the End of the World – Ep. 1 (First Impressions)
Say what you will about dial-up, at least it didn’t warp reality.
Train to the End of the World Episode 2: Water Tracks
Let’s see how short I can keep this one.
Train to the End of the World Episode 4: The Train Goes on and on
I wondered how they’d try to fit most of the stops in a 12-13 episode show unless there are plans for a 2nd cour. This episode answered that…
Train to the End of the World Episode 5: Mini City Mayhem
When we last left our heroines they were on a rescue mission but once again got into a pickle.
Train to the End of the World Episode 3: Mushroom Town Zone
I can’t be the only one who had the Mushroom Hill Zone Act 1 theme playing in my head watching this episode. Not the whole way through but…
Train to the End of the World Episode 7: Clash with the Rotted
I made it clear last episode that I wasn’t the biggest fan of how this latest stop started and wasn’t all that thrilled to see how our heroines…
Train to the End of the World Episode 5: Cooling Off with Decay
Both a wrestling reference and a hint.
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