This month we breakdown the new summer season of anime: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary My Wife Has No Emotions Twilight Out of Focus Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Makeine: Too Man…
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SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary
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Where's Sherlock effing Holmes when you need him?


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The Elusive Samurai
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A kid is a samurai who’s good at running away.


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The evidence of how good a job this adaptation is doing is the way it's depicting Shoukan.


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When The Elusive Samurai is on top of its game -as it certainly was this week - it's a truly formidable beast.


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