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Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? #01 — Crazyish Train
I understand the premise. Please stop repeating it. Impressions: My impressions from the promos was that this wouldn't be too wacky, but boy, did the opening minutes try to…
Doomsday Train #10 — Artistic Liberties
Commit, you cowards. Impressions: Another completely gag episode that is especially weird as we're supposedly coming to the end. But since they haven't been growing as characters,…
Doomsday Train #04 — Butt Shrooms
Two cities of plant people in one episode? Impressions: Back to mostly schtick, which is hard to say anything about because it's all so ephemeral and pointless,…
Doomsday Train #07 — Zombie Face
I'm not sure that I had shilling for the Sega Saturn on my bingo card. Impressions: Where in the apocalypse would you even find a Saturn these…
Doomsday Train #05 — Wrath of Galzilla
Things would be different under the threat of godzilla peeing on everything. Impressions: The thought occured to me that I'm totally unfamiliar with any recent kaiju stuff…
Doomsday Train #12 — Bullying Wins Again
Everybody scream at her. That'll help. Impressions: I did not expect a good ending at this point, and it didn't even really get to an ending at all.…
Doomsday Train #11 — Deus Ex Zombies
The plot is not so complex that it needed to be explained seven times this episode alone. Impressions: I really wish I didn't want to strangle every…
Doomsday Train #05 — Return of the Living Dead
We really have run out of ideas. Impressions: Back to a very disjointed episode. The dog's sick. No, wait. Long flashback about yelling at the missing girl…
Case 69 – The Big Choo Choo
We finally make our return for 2021! Nice! We continue through Volume 22 of Case Closed by going over the North Star Murder Case. This episode was release…
Doomsday Train #08 — Not Safe for YouTube
Weird gore stuff like this and Kampfer is a piece of Japanese culture I just don't get. Impressions: Uhhhhhh… huh. I'm not entirely sure where to even…
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…
Doomsday Train #02 — Swan Boat Infodump Delivery Service
What is this show even trying to do? Impressions: I prodded at both this and the God Games show, and while I made it a bit further…
Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? #03 — The Last of Us
Ew, fungus. Impressions: This is the first episode that was more like what I expected of this show, though it did have me worried at the start…
12 Moments In Anime #3: Keep Riding That Space Train
For anyone not in the know, Leiji Matsumoto was a manga artist who was famous for his elaborate space opera stories like Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato ,…
Review: PEEPO CHOO
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Does anyone remember Super Duper? This certified Kpop inspired track was written literally by a Korean composer, is going on to 8 years old now. Kpop has been…
First Impression: The Fable
Thugs are dropping like flies in the dark, dank hallways of a sketchy apartment block. The cause? The Fable—a legendary professional hitman who has taken out 71 big…
First Impression: The Heike Story
The setting is medieval Japan in an era where a loose word against the local lord can cost you your life—or that of your family member, as young…
First Impression: The Faraway Paladin
Greetings, friends! It is I, NegativePrimes, your resident isekai aficionado! Always on the lookout for an X-in-another-world story that stands head and shoulders above the pack. And in…
First Impression: Bocchi the Rock!
Hitori Goto lives up to her name: “soliloquy”. She’s the girl who never had the courage to join in all the fun and games in kindergarten, who ends…
First Impression: THE NEW GATE
Shin is strong player who saved thousands of players who were locked in a realistic VR MMORPG called The New Gate. But after he thought he finished the…
First Impression: The Marginal Service
We are in Japan and the year is 202X. Police agent Brian Nightraider (I kid you not), an East Dakotan (!) immigrant to Japan, solves more cases than…
First Impression: The Elusive Samurai
Young Tokiyuki Hojo is a consummate master at hide-and-seek, which wouldn’t be that strange if he wasn’t also the heir to the Kamakura Shogunate. The year is 1333,…
First Impression: Moriarty the Patriot
A tailor’s son is the latest victim in a series of grisly murders of London boys, and it’s this incident that draws the attention of Williams James Moriarty,…
First Impression: Burn The Witch
Burn the Witch, a short movie released by Crunchyroll as three episodes (this post covers episode one), starts out with two girls in uniform, flying on some kind…
First Impression: Vazzrock the Animation
oOkay, bear with me on this one, my friends, because this is gonna be BAD. Vazzrock The Animation is based on a video game called Tsukino Talent Production (TsukiPro), which…
First Impression: The Fire Hunter
A man armed with a sickle battles to overcome a vicious beast in the forest, saving the life of a little girl at the cost of his own.…
First Impression: The Great Cleric
Luciel was a salaryman in Japan who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and got shot. He reincarnates in a fantasy world and…
First Impression: The Apothecary Diaries
Maomao is a girl who works under her father at an apothecary when she is kidnapped and forced into working as a lowly servant girl in the rear…
First Impression: SK8 the Infinity
Reki loves to skate. That’s all on the mind of this high schooler, and he likes to participate in a dangerous skateboard race called “S,” where skaters from…
Deca-Dence – 03 – Riding the Wave
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First Impression: Kaginado
A familiar little girl wearing a sailor fuku with stuffed dango in hand walks into a planetarium, where she’s greeted by another familiar face, an android with blue…
First Impression: Horimiya
Kyoko Hori: Smart, beautiful, popular, but for unknown reasons, she rushes out of school instead of spending time with the rest of her clique. Izumiya Miyamura: Quiet, introverted,…
First Impression: Tamayomi
As children, Yomi would toss a “magic ball” to Tamaki, a curving pitch that the latter wasn’t able to catch. The two agreed that when Yomi mastered it…
First Impression: Arte
Set in Florence, Italy, early in the sixteenth century, this is the tale of a young noblewoman named Arte trying to become a proper artist and make a…
First Impression: Noblesse
Okay, before I get into my first take on this one, I need to clear the air about something. Yes, I am aware that Noblesse has an OVA…
First Impression: Pet
The physical world is immense and full of possibilities—good and bad. But the world inside our minds is even more vast, full of imagination, potential, and horror. There…
First Impression: Farmagia
A troll is farming with some strange creatures around him when suddenly the sky darkens and a flaming phoenix shape brings about the apocalypse. Fade to black. And…
First Impression: Zenshu
Natsuko Hirose is a young hotshot animation director who skyrocketed to fame with her first production that was so relevant it became a cultural phenomenon. Her next series…
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“Set five years after the mysterious disaster of a city’s sudden disappearance, a group of girls fascinated by the “Theatrical Material System” using 3D holograms aims to brighten…
First Impression: Kakushigoto
Kakushigoto looks to be a lighthearted comedy. The title itself is a pun: It’s a story about the “kakushigoto” (i.e., secret) of Kakushi Goto. Kakushi is a mangaka…who…
First Impression: Opus.COLORs
Two adults doing tai chi while wearing high-tech goggles and hand gear are watched by three enraptured boys. When they’re done swooshing their arms and tiptoeing through the…
First Impression: Dandadan
“Huuuuuh?!?!” Like lightning, Momo the gyaru launches a jaw-breaking kick at the delinquent’s head, only, it doesn’t land. And then he dumps her. Seems she’s too poor and…
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“Far in the future, the human beings were pushed into the deep underground world called Labyrinth and they are living shoulder-to-shoulder. The Labyrinth has several colonies with severe…
First Impression: BULLBUSTER
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First Impression: PLUTO
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