Your Forma presents as a cyberpunk mystery/thriller, with interesting comparisons to two other cyberpunk mystery/thriller anime outings. Like ID:Invaded, the show features technology that allows in…
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Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 4
Robotic exposition about robots this way.
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 3
Some investigations don’t end so easily.
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 5
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Seasonal Selection – Tasokare Hotel Episodes 1 & 2
Well, it’s a late start, but better now than never. It’s time to start taking a look at Tasokare Hotel.
Your Forma – Episode 1
It's clearly cooking with all the usual ingredients of a cyberpunk police procedural.
Your Forma
Plot: In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous “smart thread” technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an integral part…
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I check out the Sci Fi Mystery series Your Forma. DRC Provided by Yen Press Story & Art by Yoshinori Kisaragi Original Light Novel story by Mareho…
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Seasonal Selection – Tasokare Hotel Episodes 8 & 9
A two-parter wants a shared write-up.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 2
Plot 101: Introducing some more of our main story. Honestly, one thing I’m enjoying about 86 is how it’s been building up the world. In the first episode,…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 2
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Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 2
Let’s Get Black & White.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 1
Well, a new season is here and despite the fact that some previous Selections are continuing (namely Scarlet Nexus and 86), it’s time to pick one of them…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 1
Let’s get freaky.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 1
So, this season we’ll be taking an episode-by-episode look at 86. Because this choice was kind of last-minute, it’s not really a show I’ve researched or know anything…
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Your Forma’s first three volumes are, on the whole, excellent. A perfect blend of science fiction and mystery, the stories deal with strong plots and characters that are…
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Cyber Inspector Echika begins a brain dive. Her assistant, it seems, is an android—or rather, an Amicus—and as such, he is imprinted with the Laws of Respect, aka…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 5 & 6
Keeping on with double feature seasonals, it’s time for us to actually get down to business with the Defense Squad.
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 11 & 12
The trial of Hibino Kafka is on.
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 7 & 8
Long battles and a lingering finish – we’re going to be wanting more when 12 episodes are done.
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 3 & 4
With the pace this show is taking, I might stick to reporting in every other week. It’s a great ride, but it takes its sweet time to get…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 9 & 10
In this pair of episodes: Loads more fighting and a really pivotal moment that there isn’t all that much time to pivot on.
Takaharu Ozaki – Interview on Your Forma [Part 1]
Original interview from the official Your Forma website; genga from the official Studio Geno Twitter account. All the images used in this post are directly sourced from the…
Takaharu Ozaki – Interview on Your Forma [Part 1]
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Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 2
Reaction of the episode (Paraphrased): “Blink. Blink. BLINK! Blink already, you soulless Barbie Doll!” So, for this episode, we’ve decided to record live reactions. Fair warning, it’s mostly…
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 2
Great misfortune, huh? Standard training, deployment… Ah, there we have it. Pardon the return of the Haiku intros. This episode is the kind that goes by in a…
Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 2
Now with extra Fate/Stay Night parts? Well, it’s worth a chance at least.
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 2
I’m still not 100% sure what the show is doing in terms of its story structure, but I am enjoying it. Part of that is the fact that…
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 2
My level of concern is now higher than it was after episode 1, and as we get into how this episode has fallen out, I will explain why.…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 2
Few answers, but fewer new questions makes this feel like a slow-burn affair. Despite that, we still got some impressive action and solid world-building.
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 2
“No danger at all. By the way, the only person who came back alive is now half shrubbery, have fun!” So, the condemned criminals are gathered together and…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 1
Yeah, I’m doing Chainsaw Man. What else could it possibly be with “more teeth” that I teased at the end of the last seasonal writeup? Often times, when…
Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 1
So we have a first episode that pitches Mirai Nikki by way of Bubuki Buranki. Done by Yoko Taro and Jin. This is, at least, going to be…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 1
Our story takes place in the grungy, noir-ish cityscape of Mars, where humans and robotic persons live side-by-side in a setting that simultaneously evokes 1920 and something more…
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 1
I love JRPGs. I know as someone who is at least a bit of a gamer that I shouldn’t utter that sentence, but I do. I like it…
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 1
Well, I can’t say that this show doesn’t just throw you right into things. In one episode we’re introduced to a post-apocalyptic Japan with loads of details and…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 1
In a sharp divergence from last season’s chipper harmlessness, Spring 2023 we’ll be following Hell’s Paradise, which is anything but either of those if the first episode is…
Seasonal Selection – Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary Episodes 9 & 10
Heavier plot and darker warnings.
Seasonal Selection – Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary Episodes 4-6
This was meant to be a double feature but life happened and it became a triple instead. This series is emphatically not dropped and in fact seems to…
Seasonal Selection – Kaya-chan Isn’t Scary Episodes 7 & 8
The plot thickens. Kind of. Honestly, we mostly return to vignettes for this pair of episodes. Kaya visits a hospital and deals with some angry ghosts bothering a…
Your Forma #01 — Endless Meetings
Please go out and interview some suspects or witnesses at least. Final new show for the day… I think. It's Saturday and Sunday that are going to…
Your Forma Pulls A Risky Move – Episode 1 Review
Gene Studio exchanged the first volume’s content for a S-tier voice cast; I’m sure of it!
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episode 1
This one is going to be from the perspective of a Manga reader, be warned.
Your Forma Episode 2 Review – The Creator And The Culprit
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Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 2
Super Chuuni Robot and psychological trauma.
Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 2
A very quiet episode, on the whole, possibly promising more to come.
Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 1
Thus, we embark upon a show for which I can say this: it really wants you to think Isaac Asimov had a hand in it somewhere.
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 1
Set in a cozy catastrophe future where sea levels rising abruptly has sunk cities and produced a shiny maritime experience, ATRI is either the story of a boy,…