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Ex-Arm
Ex-Arm is undoubtedly the worst anime I've ever seen. How did the series that was supposed to revolutionize anime come to this?
Ex-Arm
Ex-Arm is undoubtedly the worst anime I've ever seen. How did the series that was supposed to revolutionize anime come to this?
Ex-Arm
This was bad. Poorly conceived, poorly executed, and ugly. I never criticize a real effort to try something new and different, to try to move the world of…
Episode 141 - EX-ARM
This week, Shaun has had enough of the quality shows covered on this podcast. His method of fixing that is by having Remington watch 3 episodes of the…
Ex-Arm – Episode 1
Ex-Arm is everything that can probably go wrong making an anime, beating out even Kemono Friends and Gibiate in production values.
Winter 2021 First Impressions: Non Non Biyori Nonstop, Ex-Arm, Wonder Egg Priority
Non Non Biyori Nonstop Short Synopsis: A shy high school girl travels to the idyllic countryside for some flute practice. Wooper: Non Non Biyori is often lumped in…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 11
The animationIt burns! My eyes, it burns them!Please, take it away! Welcome to the Climax Episode! Not a lot happens, so it can be summarized very quickly: Beta…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 12
Last week, and endingThis week, new bad from nowhereAt long last, silence So, after the previous episode in which Beta was destroyed and our hero flew off into…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 6
Haiku summation: Animation gets better, The writing gets worse. Live reaction audio and details after the cut. So, this time we start with Skeletor creating his spheres of…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 10
A decent fight sceneSome needless complicationsNo impact at heart So, today’s episode of Ex-Arm had two major lines: Akira versus Beta and Alma versus Soma. Second one first.…
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…
Ex-Arm – 01 (First Impressions) – NOPE
Nope. Nope Nope Nope. NOPE.
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 8
Uninvested fightsCyberspace looks like garbageSurprise villain why?! Ex-Arm once again screws up in ways I wouldn’t even have expected. Pretty much the whole episode is just a brawl…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 4
Look, I get it. If you’re going to steal visual designs, Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably a good choice. It’s got some good designs. But if you’re going…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 7
3D Arab PrinceTragic pasts not well set-up Clippy’s the bad guy Wow, this episode was scattered. Instead of nothing really happening, everything happened at once without the setup,…
Why is Ex-Arm so Horrible?
…Aside from “because it just is”, that is.
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 3
Like last week, we’ve got a live reaction video for you, after the cut. The short version is that there’s more competence shown than previously, but it’s still…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 9
Speeches everywhereFriendship, revenge, blah, blah, blahPacing is a lie. This episode is mostly focused on getting Alma back. The fight in the tunnel is as badly choreographed as…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 5
It was bad enough that the animation, slowly improving though it is, should never have made it to the screen. Up until now, that was the worst thing;…
EX-ARM – Could This be an Undiscovered Masterpiece?
Sometimes an anime comes along and you can just tell history is being made. EX-ARM changed the way we see anime!
on the Bright Side Reviews (BS reviews): Ex-Arm
BS reviews is a series where Edy and I look for the unseen genius in anime that have not been widely recognized by the public. Today, we will…
WHY EX-ARM IS THE GREATEST ANIME TO EVER EXIST NO CAP
This post might contain SLIGHT SPOILERS. GENRE : Action, Ecchi, Sci-Fi, Seinen Ex-Arm is a phenomenal anime. It is a beauty to behold for the mind, the ears,…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Thursday, January 7th, 2021
So far I’m really enjoying the more chill pacing of writing reviews this season. It’s not that there are fewer premieres, it’s more that I’m holding myself to…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Saturday, January 9th, 2021
The first couple weeks of a new anime season sometimes feel like running a marathon – it’s a long haul task of watching new episodes, constructing coherent thoughts…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Wednesday, January 6th 2021
Well, as I’m writing this it’s definitely been an interesting couple of days in the United States. To be honest, it took a day or two to get…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Monday, January 4th 2021
Hello friends! So it seems the season has started in earnest now. I, for one, am excited to see whether anything I was excited about actually pans out.…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Sunday, January 10th, 2021
By the time this is posted, it’ll be Friday. This week has been a long one, mostly because I’ve been kind of sick, working from home with no…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Friday, January 8th 2021 Part 2
It’s always a good day for anime, so I’m moving forward with the other couple of new episodes from last Friday. I’m pretty pleased with my progress thus…
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for Friday, January 8th 2021
It’s amazing how much things can change in a short amount of time. Yesterday during the day I was all geared-up to come home and watch anime, but…
Winter 2021 Anime...
My thoughts on Anime in the season of Winter 2021.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2, SK8 the Infinity, Skate-Leading Stars, Scar on the Praeter, The Promised Neverland
Winter 2021 New Anime – Premieres for 1/11-1/13 2021
As I suspected, there are only a few premieres left (aside from a few shorts, but I like to give those a couple of weeks so I’m not…
Winter 2021 New Anime – The Early Bird Catches the Worm
You know, over the past year I’ve come to truly dislike the word “unprecedented,” because it’s been used time and time again to describe the utterly batshit state…
Winter 2021 Anime Roundup
It’s a bit late, but here’s a list of all the weekly anime I watched during the Winter 2021 season ranked in order of enjoyment. For the second…
Anime Lookout | Winter 2021
After a seemingly endless waiting period, somehow we’ve made it past 2020 and into the new year, which of course means yet another new season of anime premieres…
Winter 2021 Anime Awards
Another season of anime has come and gone, so once again I’ll be looking back at some of the things I enjoyed most from what I was watching.…
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Idoly Pride, Non Non Biyori Nonstop, One Piece, World Witches Take Off!
The Best Anime Eyebrows of Winter 2021: Eggbrows? Ex-Brows? There’s a pun here somewhere!
A new anime season is upon us, which means it’s time for me to look back on the last season and judge the most important aspect of any…
Did Anime ‘Ex-Arm’ Censor a Same-Sex Kiss, or is it Just Completely Incompetent?
Visual Flights’ television anime adaptation of Shinya Komi’s Ex-Arm has been making waves in the industry recently with bold choices like putting a poorly animated 3D CGI character…
Yes, it’s bad, but also I did watch and have ~thoughts~: Ex-Arm anime review
I really did subject myself to watching the entire twelve episodes of Ex-Arm. I am aware that dropping anime is an option, but never really considered it. It’s…
The 8 New Anime of Winter 2021 You Should Be Watching
Hot off the presses, it’s AniTAY’s top new anime recommendations of the Winter 2021 season! But what made the cut? Only one way to find out!
Winter 2021 Anime Preview(-ish)
As I’m sure you can already tell, due to several strenuous issues I’ve been dealing with I’m obscenely late with this season’s write-up rather than just mild to…
Winter 2021 – Anime Watch-List
I don’t talk about this in detail very often, but in the grand scheme of things I do watch quite a bit of anime as compared to at…
Winter 2021 Anime Season Overview
Even in retrospect, this season was insane.
Winter 2021 Anime Season Preview
Welcome to the Winter 2021 Anime Season Preview, aka the season of a bajillion sequels, most of them to anime people actually wanted sequels to shockingly enough (even…
Anime Top 5 – Winter 2021
My Stats. (*at time of writing)Shows watched from season: 24 (including 3 shorts, 14 sequels)Highest rating: 8/10Lowest rating: 1/10Average: 3.5 (Note: In most cases I will be avoiding…
Winter 2021 Anime: First Impressions
Bit late with this one for reasons, but here we go: my first “First Impressions” post of 2021. Without any further ado, here are my initial impressions of…
Cells at Work!, Show By Rock!!, Umamusume: Pretty Derby, World Witches Take Off!, Cells at Work!!
Winter 2021 Anime in Review
This season was interesting. It’s one of those seasons were some of the stronger and/or experimental shows from the beginning part of the season didn’t end up by…
WINTER ANIME 2021 SEASON PREVIEW
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OG’s Winter 2021 Anime Picks
I think now is as good of a time as any to announce the anime I’ll be watching at the start of 2021. As always shows can be…
Winter 2021 Anime Season Preview
Wooper: 2020 may be on its last legs, but the tradition of milking anime franchises to death is still going strong. That’s right ladies and gents, it’s Sequel…
Winter 2021 Anime First Impressions
The winter 2021 anime season feels a bit like life in general: Things are starting to get back to normal. Many delayed series are finally airing both among…