I kind of knew pretty early on that I should never have dropped Trillion Game.
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Patron Pick Winter 2025: Trillion Game – 18
Some things are just destined be be niche, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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 – 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.
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 11
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Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 08
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It's all a matter of perspective, really.
Patron Pick Winter 2023: Mononogatari – 12 (Season Finale)
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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I guess I shouldn't ask where the foam weights came from.
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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
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Patron Pick Spring 2023: Jigokuraku – 09
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Patron Pick Fall 2024 – Negaposi Angler
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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
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Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 10
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Patron Pick Summer 2023: Helck – 06
Doing the expected in an entertaining way seems to be the order of the day. Read more
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That was certainly a dark turn. Read more
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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.
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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
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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?