Surprise backstory hour. Impressions: Are we really going to be stuck here in this idiot kingdom for an extended arc? If we are, why are we doing cutaways to Ro3K land to watch some random thug job to the Emperor? How many random people in the cast are going to be secret runaway royalty […]
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Back Arrow
As expected of me, I was going to give Back Arrow the skip because you know, mecha anime. Not really my kind of anime although there was a…
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Back Arrow – 03
「巨大な城艦は希望になるか」 (Kyodai na Fune wa Kibou ni Naru ka) "Does a Huge Ship Bring Hope?" It's no Lagann, but it'll do.
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Back Arrow – 01
「飛んで来た男にパンツはあるか」 (Tonde Kita Otoko ni Pantsu wa Aru ka) "Do Guys From the Sky Have Undies?" Cowboys & Aliens 2: The Chinese Connection
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Back Arrow – 02
「夢はまったく迷惑なのか」 (Yume wa Mattaku Meiwaku na no ka) "Is Having Dreams a Burden?" When Nietzsche conceived of will to power I don't think this is what he had in mind.
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Back Arrow (Bakku Arō)
Back Arrow is bursting at the seams with exuberance and I enjoyed that a lot. Back Arrow (Bakku Arō) 2021 For me, it’s wildly over the top and…
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BACK ARROW – Episode 1
It's familiar, like Gurren Lagann meets Escaflowne---but familiar doesn't have to mean bad.
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First Impression: Back Arrow
A wall surrounds the island of Ringarindo, but it’s more than a boundary—the structure is seen as a provider and caregiver, and worshiped as a god by the…
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Back Arrow #07 — Technicalities
Why does it feel like we're playing by the same fidelity to rules as Air Bud? Impressions: I know I say this a lot, but what a…
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Anime Taste Testing: Back Arrow
So it’s mecha but with backwater villagers dressed as old-west cowboys and the more tech-advanced folk looking like something out of a Chinese-inspired historical-fantasy. Cool cool.
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Back Arrow: AniTAY First Impressions
The title for this series is a pun on the Japanese word for “dumbass.”
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Back Arrow #18 — Soul Nomad
So that's the game they were playing when they wrote it. Impressions: Not to jump to the end here, particularly because the reveal is in like the…
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Back Arrow #16 — Party Guests
I can't remember if this dude has actually done anything to this point. Impressions: First half absolutely reeked of pointless filler. Granedger, now a bit later and…
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Why is Back Arrow So Fun?
Squeezing this in just before Mecha March.
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Back Arrow #23 — Generic RPG Bosses
And Rudolf is demoted to fighting the healer. Impressions: Yawn. To the shock of nobody, especially given how all of this season's original shows have gone, Rudolf…
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Back Arrow #10 — Jabba the Explodey
Uh, right. Impressions: The thing that gets me about the Jekyll and Hyde routine is that there are some people who can obviously see when the Princess…
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Back Arrow is full of idiots
I like Atlee, but maybe it's just because of her hat.
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Back Arrow #08 — Jekyll and Zzz
Neat torture choir. Impressions: What a tedious episode. The entire thing is spent waiting for the shoe to drop with this flawless perfect kingdom. It takes goddamned…
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Back Arrow #15 — In Vino Veritas
There's no wrong way to drink wine, except through the shoulders. If you're wondering how today's Dynazenon went, aside from the animation taking another huge plunge, everybody…
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Back Arrow – Cowboys, Spaceships and Gods!
Back Arrow might be a bit too odd for a general audience but it has a lot of solid elements that anime fans will recognize.
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Back Arrow #05 — Blowing Hot Air
Become an interesting character or leave already. Impressions: As much as they want to make this Shu and Kai crap the center of the show, they are…
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Back Arrow #03 — Please, Take Our Battleship
I guess we're Nadesico now. Impressions: I feel a little bit better that it only took a commercial break for Greenie to come to her senses about…
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Back Arrow Never Asks for Too Much
In today’s media landscape, it can feel like everything is about having an obsessive audience. Mobile games incentivize you to try to get every ultra rare and keep…
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Back Arrow #12 — Stand By Your Man
A real paragon of independence, Ren is. Impressions: It's a bit weird that being impaled to the side of a wall by a spear the size of…
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park – 09 – Trouble in Paradise
There is a lot to sift through this week, but I’ll give IWGP this: there’s no other current show that makes people sitting at tables and talking quite so…
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Back Arrow #14 — Giant Non-Lethal Apocalypse Cannon
That's a very convenient giant cannon. Impressions: Of all the ways I thought this obnoxiously-extended arc would end, I'm not sure I would have called "Princess heals…
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I like Back Arrow because it is bullshit
All right, you're not worthless anymore, but you're still not great.
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First Impressions Digest – Back Arrow, Hataraku Saibou Black
Back in Black. Read more
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Back Arrow (Bakku Arō) – Collaboration with Lita Kino
Morning all! I’m excited to share another collaboration – this time on Back Arrow, where Lita Kino and I ask each other about the first three episodes. (Spoilers…
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Back Arrow #22 — …And Then Everybody Went Home
What happened to the last third of this episode exactly? Impressions: I really expected some kind of crazy bonkers crap from Shu, like he had traveled beyond…
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Back Arrow: 2021’s Campy Mecha Hidden Gem
Alright, what is this show, and why haven’t I heard of it outside of randomly browsing Funimation’s lineup?
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Back Arrow #20 — Rudolf Continues To Pontificate Pt 6
Man, am I tired of listening to him. Impressions: Are we seriously trying to promote Bit to a starring role as a hero? The craven coward who…
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Goro Taniguchi & Kazuki Nakashima Working on “Back Arrow” Anime Series
Earlier today, an official website and Twitter account opened their doors to announce that a new original anime TV series is in the works, titled Back Arrow. The…
(REVIEW) Now That it’s Over, What Even was BACK ARROW?
One of the season’s oddest offerings, BACK ARROW stands out by virtue of being like little else.
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Trouble Island
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
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Sla-Arrow
General Information Unit type: unpiloted slave podHeight: 11.0 metersWeight: 41.7 metric tonsArmament: Sla Kila, bomb arrow x 8 Lineart N/A
Mecha Fans are Being Well-fed with SSSS.Dynazenon and Back Arrow
Fridays are an embarrassment of robot punching riches
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Mecha Fans are Being Well-fed with SSSS.Dynazenon and Back Arrow
Fridays are an embarrassment of robot punching riches
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Trouble in Eden
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
If I explain what happens in Back Arrow, will someone watch it? Please?
This post contains spoilers for Back Arrow. If upon reading that you thought to yourself “I guess I shouldn’t read this post because I don’t want to get…
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Maybe #3 (Wonder Egg Priority, Back Arrow, Kemono Jihen and Scar on the Praeter)
Quite similar to my ‘Abandoned’ posts here’s a new ‘Maybe’ entry – and again I’m using it to mention a few seasonal shows that I’ve tried out and…
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The End of DYNAZENON ~Back Arrow/My Fluorite Eye's Singular Point Song for Thee~
I liked this gimmick.
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Shiki Takes An Arrow
My Hero Academia 220 - 4:27Food Wars 303 - 17:22Edens Zero 35 - 32:08Hell Warden Higuma 12 - 41:09Ne0;lation 13 - 41:59The Last Saiyuki 3 - 51:11Yui Kamio…
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SK8 the Infinity – 09 [We Were Special Back Then]
When I heard that SK8 would be getting a mid-cour recap episode, I figured I’d just delay my viewing of “We Were Special Back Then” and blog it…
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A Sign of Affection – 09 – Laid-Back Mini-Glamp
While still primarily a shoujo romance, this week’s Sign offered up a heaping helping of iyashikei goodness, and not just because most of it took place during a camping trip.…
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Winter 2021 First Impressions: Back Arrow, Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?, Tenchi Souzou Design-bu
Back Arrow Short Synopsis: A ripped nudist emerges from an extraterrestrial capsule and transforms into a gooey robot to defend an old west town. Wooper: It takes a…
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Urusei Yatsura – 12 – Little Trouble
With Urusei Yatsura’s second half comes a new OP and ED (neither quite the equal of their earworm predecessors) and another new character: Lum’s tiny cousin, Ten. He’s discovered…
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Issue 8, 2023 - Double Trouble
Lots of discussion of Pixar films and western animation in our discussion of Weekly Shounen Jump Issue 8, published on January 23rd, 2023.This week's Manga Show and Tell…
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Cardcaptor Sakura – 25 – Double Trouble
Sakura is grocery shopping for dinner, but once she’s bought everything she needs, she heads home…only for a second Sakura to appear, wearing a face that’s just…just wrong. …
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