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Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 22
Trillion Game has a secret weapon - Haru and his balls of steel.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 19
I kind of knew pretty early on that I should never have dropped Trillion Game.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 21
You know it's a momentous episode when you get an eleven-"bababa" exclamation as we did this week.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 20
Not for the first time I think Trillion Game is a pretty un-Japanese story in many ways.
Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 17
This return is really long overdue.
Pick of the Week: Trillion Game
SEAN: There are a pile of titles that I'm interested in this week, including some shoujo stuff that sounds old school (as I joked in manga the Week…
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 11
I've always had the sense that this adaptation was never doing more than skimming the surface of the source material. Read more
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 08
The first name thing was a bit of a disaster, but the die is pretty much cast. Read more
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 06
Mononogatari is growing into its premise, albeit slowly. Read more
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 05
The voters have spoken. Read more
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 09
I don’t think it would be inaccurate to call Mononogatari a slow build sort of show. Read more
Trillion Game
The question of what to do with a trillion dollars has already been debunked by the protagonist’s of tonight’s show and tell, and investors are in for a…
Trillion Game – 04
It's all a matter of perspective, really.
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 12 (Season Finale)
That explains why the exposition with this series seemed glacially slow. Read more
Third Impressions – Trillion Game
We may be spoiled for choice when it comes to series about adults and working this season, but that doesn't mean they aren't individually welcome.
First Impression: Trillion Game
Gaku and Haru have been friends since middle school, even though they make a bit of an odd pair. It all started when tall, handsome, charismatic Haru stepped…
TRILLION GAME – Episode 1
I’ll give this to Trillion Game: it holds fast to the cosmic truth that no one ethically gets that much money. But I think it's expecting me to…
Trillion Game, Vol. 1
By all rights, Trillion Game should be a blast. Creators Riichiro Inagaki and Ryoichi Ikegami have more than a dozen hit series to their names—including Eyeshield 21, Dr.…
Anime Like Trillion Game
After being saved from thugs trying to rob him in high school, passionate computer nerd Manabu “Gaku” Taira becomes friends with the confident, ambitious Haru
Great Pretender, Kakegurui, Spice and Wolf, Tomodachi Game, TRILLION GAME
First Look: Trillion Game
Haru and Gaku are two school friends who start a business, with the goal of making a trillion dollars. What their business does is not important: making money…
First Look: Trillion Game
Haru and Gaku are two school friends who start a business, with the goal of making a trillion dollars. What their business does is not important: making money…
Patron Pick Winter 2024: Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi – 05
This is now a love triangle of sorts, undeniably. But it doesn't bother or even annoy me because of the way it's being handled.
Patron Pick Winter 2024: Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi – 06
Obviously a high school student having a curfew isn't in itself unusual, but it's pretty obvious that Tsubasa's home life is.
Trillion Game Anime Streaming Review
Author Inagaki asks us to find entertainment in the story of a man who wants to be the most viciously successful corporate shark of them all. I say,…
Holiday Review #21: TRILLION GAME
What happens when you combine the writer of Dr. Stone and the artist of Crying Freeman ? You get this, although I'd have to ask why anyone...
Holiday Review #21: TRILLION GAME
What happens when you combine the writer of Dr. Stone and the artist of Crying Freeman ? You get this, although I'd have to ask why anyone...
Trillion Game ep. 1-4
A First Impressions Review
Trillion Game #01 — Faking It
Never interacted with people before, have you, writers? This is another double episode premiere, and while I glanced through the second, there's no way I'm dealing with…
First (and Second) Impressions – Trillion Game
I guess I shouldn't ask where the foam weights came from.
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 06
That was pretty disturbing on multiple levels Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 09
Helck getting a look at the darker side of demonkind seems like it might be a moment. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 08
This was very much an expected return to form for Helck. Read more
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 10
Jigokuraku may be turning into the sort of series I was hoping it would be. Read more
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 09
Talk about flower power. Read more
Patron Pick Fall 2024 – Negaposi Angler
We’re still solidly in slice of life mode here and ignoring elephants.
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 05
Pairing off Helck and Vermilio was pretty clearly fated to happen, and the possibilities here are obvious. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 07
Wow, that was one hell of an infodump (no pun intended). Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 04
Good choice, Patrons. Read more
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 08
For me, once a series has established that plot armor doesn't exist, I'd rather it not revel in demonstrating it ad nauseam. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 10
This show has the chops to go full comedy when the mood strikes it. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 06
Doing the expected in an entertaining way seems to be the order of the day. Read more
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 11
That was certainly a dark turn. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 13
At long last Helck takes us on a journey to the past - Helck's past, where so much of the foundation of the story takes place.
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 07
Jigokuraku seems to waver between Hunter X Hunter and Monster Hunter. Read more
Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 12
Sooner or later the humans have to figure out that the entire premise of their presence here is a sham. Read more
Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 09
Fun fact - the seiyuu playing Kawamata Sanae is named Osanai.
Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 04
Was this interesting? I guess sort of, though that's very much in the eye of the beholder.
Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 07
It’s always a bit of a minefield when pure slice-of-life series get serious in their final episodes.
Patron Pick Summer 2024: Shoushimin Series – 05
Can you imagine "The Chinese Restaurant" or "The Parking Garage" with little or no humor? Do you want to?