In a premise last encountered as recently as Spring’s KURONEKO Project: Zero Chronicle, the two most powerful young members of their respective warring nations want the same thing: to end the…
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Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 03 – Allies for an Afternoon
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Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 04 – Feeling Lucky
Part of what makes a good show comes down to tempering expectations as much as surpassing or subverting them. With three straight episodes of Iska and Alice bumping…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 08 – Demon Ascending
Alice is always referring to Iska as her “enemy”, but with Risya releasing another agent of chaos in Salinger the Demon/Transcendant, she doesn’t have the luxury of rejecting…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 09 – Officially Rivals
The battle between Iska and Salinger commences, and Kimisen goes full Shounen Battle Mode, complete with the arrogant opponent’s high-and-mighty speeches. It basically boils down to Ichigo—er…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 10 – My Dream Knight
Risya and Nameless meet with the Emperor…and they seem to be an androgynous cat-person. Not only that, the Emperor seems all too aware that a “Witch Princess” (i.e.…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 07 – Stuck On You
Rin and Alice are in full improv mode, as neither expected to have Iska in their custody at the end of the day at Neutral City. But they…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 06 – Apples and Lemons
Ever since the vortex incident that thrust her and Iska apart, Alice has been sighing heavily a lot while looking out the window of her bedchamber. She’s clearly…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 02 – Art Has No Borders
We learn how Iska ended up at the same opera as Alice: Mismis gave him her last ticket of the season. After his battle with Alice he couldn’t…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 12 (Fin) – Traipsing in Place
Iska can’t protect Sisbell from Masked Lord and the Empire’s Object, but thankfully he gets an assist from his fellow members of Unit N07. He buys time by hacking…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 05 – Hindrances to Her Chosen Fate Arise
Much to the surprise of the mages on guard, Alice and Rin show up at the new vortex site unannounced, and are soon joined by TuxedoLord Mask and…
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World – 11 – When It Rains Princesses, It Pours
Sisbell comes offering some kind of magical bracelet to Iska, as well as the promise of restoring his status, honor, and more. All he has to do is…
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Our Last Crusade #02 — Date Episode
The entire goddamned twenty minutes. Impressions: This episode was pretty tediously boring nothing, and the screencaps below should make the reasons why pretty obvious, but it was…
Our Last Crusade #08 — Lounge Lizards
Couldn't their tryst at least have gone somewhere if it was going to eat up three goddamned episodes? Impressions: I get the feeling that nobody is really…
Our Last Crusade #09 — Continued Monologues
And now we stand and explain our powers and motivations to each other. Impressions: Really? Both of them spend about half the episode explaining their powers to…
Our Last Crusade #06 — Back to the Resort
Let's overanimate some more crying. Impressions: Another very uneventful episode that they tried to spice up by maximizing the melodrama over the blue one apparently catching witchiness…
Our Last Crusade #11 — Walk and Talk
And Iska stares blankly, like always. Impressions: Not to repeat myself, but this was another profoundly boring and tedious episode where absolutely nothing happened. At most, you…
Our Last Crusade #10 — Vacation From Vacations
Are they ever not at a resort town? Impressions: It's the start of a new arc, so that means, you guessed it, time for every character's bust…
Our Last Crusade #04 — Alternate Neutral Location
The meet-cutes will continue until morale improves. Impressions: Boy, as they move from a neutral city to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT neutral resort for half the episode, I…
Our Last Crusade #07 — Bottle Episode(s)
So, we're just killing time here until the season's over clearly. Impressions: Another tedious filler episode, although philosophically speaking, if they're essentially all filler episodes, are any…
Our Last Crusade #12 — Random Monster Spawn
When one random monster isn't random enough to be the last boss. Impressions: I felt like making a sarcastic comment about how the ending of this surprised…
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