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86 episode 19
Rating: 3.5 After watching this episode completely twice, I cannot help but wonder if it might have looked a bit different if the series had not run into…


86 – Episode 9
Hello everyone, and welcome to Wrong Every Time. Today we stand on the precipice of battle, with Shin and his few remaining squadmates having been assigned an impossible…


86 – Episode 4
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to return to 86, where Lena has at last received the violent comeuppance she’s been approaching…


86 – Episode 7
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today you will have to forgive me, as we’re stepping back into the world of 86, and almost certainly…


86 episode 9
Rating: 5 (of 5) One sign of a great episode is when you can watch it twice in the same afternoon and it loses none of its impact…


86 episode 21
Rating: 5 (of 5) Episodes 22 and 23 may be delayed until March, but that still leaves one more episode to deliver within the confines of the Fall…


86 episode 7
Lena all dressed-up for the party. Rating: 5 (of 5) From the beginning of the series until episode 5, one of the unspoken truths about Spearhead Squadron was…


86 – Episode 5
Well Lena, you’ve done it. You’ve learned the actual names of the 86 serving under you, and have taken one more step towards recognizing them as fully human.…


86 episode 18
Ernst, announcing the offensive against Morpho Rating: 4.5 Throughout its run, 86 has occasionally stretched its narrative a bit to end episodes on certain dramatic beats. For the…


86 episode 16
Rating: 5 (of 5) Ever since midway through last season, the series has been foreshadowing the coming of a large-scale offensive. Shin warned Lena about it, and in…


86 episode 17
Rating: 5 (of 5) Last episode was the action powerhouse that anime-only viewers were probably hoping for and novel readers were anticipating ever since this season began, but…


86 – Episode 10
So what’s the plan now, Lena? 86 has arrived at the end of the known world, whether you’re looking at it geographically or narratively. The show has been…


86 – Episode 3
Hello all, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re returning to last season’s 86, which had a bit of a rocky start script-wise, but then proceeded…


86 – Episode 1
Hello everyone, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’ll once again be watching an actual ongoing show, as my generous supporters (that’s you guys!) are…


86 episode 8
The surviving 86 are set to depart. Rating: 4.5 (of 5) Storytelling in all forms has a habit of exaggerating the evil actions of an enemy or an…


86 – Episode 2
Hello all, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’ll be returning to the spring production 86, a war drama about a world where the citizens of…


86 – Episode 11
Well, I guess we’re doing this, huh? After storming through 86’s ninth and tenth episodes in a flash, I’ve been putting off the season’s final episode for a…


86 episode 14
Shin getting back to business Rating: 4.5 (of 5) With this episode, the interlude from the battle scenarios ends, but that shouldn’t be any surprise; even if it…


86 – Episode 8
At last, the awful truth has been revealed. After working for months to improve the conditions of Spearhead’s lives, and assuring them that reinforcements must surely be on…


86 episode 10
Rating: 4.5 (of 5) As a big fan of the novels, this episode surprised me a bit. Its title suggested that it would include a certain scene featuring…


86 episode 13
Rating: 5 (of 5) Last season ended with Shin’s squadron in mortal peril. Killing them all off at the point and moving forward with a new group of…


86 episode 6
Shin and Kaie in a peaceful flashback Rating: 4.5 (of 5) If the more serious parts of 86 ever fail the series, it has a good fallback plan:…


86 – Episode 6
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m immensely eager to dive back into 86, given how its last episode upended everything we thought we…


86 episode 15
Frederica, reminiscing In last week’s review, I underestimated how much content from the second novel was still left to adapt. A full episode will probably be needed to…


86 episode 22
Rating: 5 (of 5) 86 is finally back for its final two episodes, after its nearly three-month hiatus. Perhaps partly as an apology for the wait, the series…


86 episode 20
Rating: 4.5 (of 5) After yet another week off, 86 is back to remind us once again why it is, at worst, one of the year’s best series.…


86 Episode 1 Review
We dive straight into an all out battle, with mechanized spider looking drones tearing each other to shreds. A commander is talking into the background, giving orders to…


86 episode 23 (finale)
Rating: 5 With episode 21 having provided the action climax and episode 22 providing the dramatic climax, all that’s left for episode 23 to do is provide the…


86 special: Episode 21.5
Frederika, observing Kiriya’s final moments After more than two months off, 86 is finally returning this Saturday (March 12th) and next Saturday (March 19th) for its two-episode finale.…


86 Special (episode 12)
Crunchyroll is listing the special episode of 86 as episode 12, but whatever you call it, the episode – titled “Coquelicots Blooming Across the Battlefield” – is just…


86
We’ve had enough of these essay-length titles! Let’s just use a number for a title!


The GLORIO Chat Episode 86: Eighty Six: 86: Eighty Six
We’re back from a week off to rave about how good anime is this season… just not 86: Eighty Six.


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #11
Let’s start with the final episode where the surviving members of the Spearhead Squadron continues to run away from the Legions. With only a single Juggernaut left and…
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…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #03
Hey everyone, let’s start this episode where the Spearhead Squadron are having a fun time at the river. Well, mostly the girls as they want to cool themselves…


86 Visual Commentary Special Episode
From what I understand, the production team for 86 originally planned to have a break week in December. November 13’s break wasn’t originally planned and is instead the…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #22
Oh boy, looks like we begin this episode with a nasty nightmare as Shinei Nouzen is losing all hope to live now that death is calling to him.…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #06
In Stellar Year 2144, a young soldier named Shinei Nouzen witness a wrecked Juggernaut on a snowy night…


86 episode 11 (season finale)
Rating: 5 (of 5) First off, for those who have been reading each week, my apologies for this being up later than normal. Unexpected schedule changes over the…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #09
The day has finally arrived as Shinei Nouzen is about to fight his older brother Shourei, a David vs Goliath battle where a battle-hardened Processor will take on…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #14
Well look what we have here, someone tries to sneak up towards the enemy, but fell down towards the hill like an idiot. It’ll be bad if someone…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #20
Well everyone, 86 is back and I’m not surprised that the show is having production troubles with Episodes 22 and 23 airing next year. Just hoping that with…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 4
86 continues to impress with its humanity, but to an extent much of what was had and needed this episode was highly predictable from the last. That’s not…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #08
Well everyone, I have to say that the Republic of San Magnolia are very zealous on committing genocide to non-Albans by making ridiculous missions where there’s 0% chance…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #05
Let’s start this episode with a flashback where a young Vladilena Milizé encountered a Juggernaut, San Magnolia’s Legion in which this machine saved her life, although Vaclav and…


86 EIGHT-SIX – Episode 1
Oh neat, a complex and melancholy anti-war spec-fic series with a messy approach to social commentary and diversity metaphors. And here I was worried that all my reviews…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #15
Well, it looks like there’s bad news for the Federal Republic of Giad where they not only suffered a huge amount of losses, but there are reports of…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #01
Well everyone, this is the most anticipated anime adaptation of a light novel by Asato Asato where this is a serious war drama where the Republic of San…


86 -Eighty Six- Episode #04
This is how it happened to Kaie “Kirschblute” Taniya’s Juggernaut as she was tipped over by a Löwe-type Legion which led to her death.