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Lost Highway and RE-MAIN
Been watching a lot of mechanical keyboard related things, and bought one for my work setup (currently,...
RE-MAIN – 04
「なんかヤバいかも……」 (Nanka Yabai ka mo......) "This Ain't Looking Good..." When you're struggling against little kids, you know it ain't looking good...
RE-MAIN – 01
「ごめんなさい、誰ですか」 ("Gomennasai, Dare Desu ka?) "Sorry, Who Are You?" I guarantee you will REMAIN intrigued.
RE-MAIN – 02
「僕は天才じゃない」 (Boku wa Tensai ja nai) "I'm No Prodigy" It's finally happened, our boy joined the water polo club!
RE-MAIN – 05
「いや怖いわ！！！」 (Iya Kowai wa!!!) "Ew, That's Scary!!!" Sometimes, the best person to look to for inspiration is...you!
RE-MAIN – 06
「 はい、こっち向いて」 (Hai, Kotchi Muite) "Yes, Look Over Here" We are stronger when we lift each other up.
RE-MAIN – 03
「でもへんでくでせ」 (De mo Hen Deku Dese) "But, Give Us a Hendy" The quest to recruit the 7th and final member has begun, but the ever-stoic Shuugo Amihama is a tough…
First Impression: Re-Main
Minato wakes at the hospital, vaguely remembering a ball floating over water and surrounded by light. A girl, his younger sister, is telling him of his day. She…
First Impressions – RE-MAIN
It's getting harder and harder to ignore the elephant in the room. Read more
Second Impressions – RE-MAIN
On the evidence of the first two episodes, RE-MAIN is perfectly happy to color inside the lines. Read more
Re-Main (First Impression)
“The story centers on Minato Kiyoumizu, a boy who quit playing water polo after an incident during the winter of his third year of junior high school. After…
RE-MAIN – 12 (END)
「 さぁ、始めようぜ」 (Sā, Hajimeyō ze) "C'mon, Let's Get Started" This series needs a season 2 ASAP!
First Look: RE-MAIN
In junior high, Minato Kiyomizu was a water polo ace who was part of a quartet of nationally recognised players. However, a car accident leaves him in a…
RE-MAIN – Episode 1
Kiyomizu Minato was a junior high school water polo national champion who unfortunately got into a car accident and can't remember his love for water polo.
Anime Series Like Re-Main
Minato Kiyoumizu was once a rockstar among rockstars on his junior high water polo team. However, when a car accident put him into a coma for several months,…
Re-Main Review (Spoiler Free)
We’re almost done with the genre reviews, this time we’ve got the Sports genre and Re-Main. This was an interesting one for me, because I can count the…
Anime Taste Testing: Re-Main and Kageki Shoujo!!
This season’s not off to an amazing start. That said, looking over what seems to be the dozen or so male gaze-centric isekai/power fantasy shows and the ton…
Cooling Down and Starting Over with RE-MAIN
Water polo champion Minato wakes from a coma with amnesia. Will he fight his way back to being the best? or remain on the edges of the pool?
Summer 2021 First Impressions – Re-Main
Streaming: Funimation Episodes: 12 Source: Original Episode Summary: Half a year ago, Minato was on top of the world. He and his middle school water polo team were…
Re-Main Review: Does MAPPA Sink or Swim?
Studio: MAPPA Director: Masafumi Nishida Streaming on: Funimation For better or worse, MAPPA has become one of the most dominant studios in the anime studio, and a household…
A Memory in Speedos – First Impressions: Re-Main
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RE-MAIN #01 — BUT WHAT OF OUR MEMORIES TOGETHER!
Wait, who was the fifth dude? Impressions: And so we finally come to the end of the Satu-re-day shows, and it's rarely a good sign when I…
Penguin Highway
I just finished reading the novel Penguin Highway by Morimi Tomihiko author of The Tatami Galaxy, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, and The Eccentric Family. This…
Penguin Highway
Penguin Highway is a sci-fi, fantasy, mystery anime that makes absolutely no sense. Are you a penguin truther? You should be.
RE-MAIN – I still can’t figure out how I feel
RE-MAIN was a frustrating anime for me to watch. It could have been great. Heck it could have been one of the greatest. Let me tell you why!
Highway Blossoms Review
A yuri visual novel by an AMERICAN studio (not Japanese!), and it’s a banger at that. Love it when yuri starts to be recognized, it shall conquer the…
This Week in Anime - Is Water Polo Anime RE-MAIN Worth Watching?
This MAPPA-animated series follows the typical sports series formula with an added mix of amnesia thrown in. Is there anything unique about it its Speedo-wearing cast?
Summer 2021 First Impressions: Vanitas no Carte, Kanojo mo Kanojo, Re-Main
Vanitas no Carte Short Synopsis: Vampire Hunter V: Bookworm. Lenlo: I have to admit, Vanitas surprised me. I wasn’t expecting much from another vampire show, especially not after…
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#69 - Penguin Highway Review
Tori, Austin, and Tobias review the latest anime adaptation of a Tomihiko Moremi novel, Penguin Highway! We have lots of good things to say about it, but a…
Loner Rock! #02 — Re-Meet and Re-Greet
An introduction following introductions. Oh boy. Spy x Family finally concluded its dog arc this week with essentially a full episode epilogue where the adults spent the entire episode…
The Value of (Re)watching and (Re)reading
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Interstellar and Lost Time
2024 has just began and its already hit me and my family hard. So I went back in time and watched the now 10 year old Interstellar for…
Highway Blossoms: Next Exit Review
Note: Review code provided by Studio Studio Élan Here we are at last. The highly anticipated bonus story DLC is within our grasps. The obvious question is whether…
Review: Lost and Found (2021)
Lost and Found 以年为单位的恋爱 China, 2021, colour, 2.35:1, 102 mins. Director: Li Zhi 黎志. Rating: 6/10. Generic relationship movie gains much from the chemistry between its two leads.…
“FU-RE-FU-RE-FU-RE! One More Time: FU-RE- FU-RE-FU-RE!!”
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WEP: Death and Re-Egg
Jumping into the beginning of 2021, Wonder Egg Priority was one of the winter season’s darlings. Starting with the name of the show itself, there was something mysterious…
TheOASG Podcast Episode 155: Delays and Lost Media Not Being Lost
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Re-Dive: Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel II. Lost Butterfly: Close Your Eyes
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Frieren, Ikari Shinji, and Lost Love
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is simply one of the finest fantasy series I’ve ever seen, on par with Witch Hat Atelier. From its premise, to its intriguing world-building,…
A review of Highway Blossoms: Remastered (PC)
It’s back to the visual novels. And it’s also back to the itch.io bundle, and specifically last year’s racial justice donation bundle, not to be confused with the…
Day Twenty-Seven: Penguin Highway (MotM 2021)
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The long awaited release date of the Highway Blossoms: Next Exit DLC bonus story is here! It won’t be long now. Description: Return to Las Vegas with Amber…
The Best Movie of 2019 – Penguin Highway
Before we begin, YES, Penguin Highway, directed by Hiroyasu Ishida, was released in Japan in 2018. However, seeing as how it was released in the US in 2019,…