Yeesh, that glowing eye looks so obnoxious in every shot. Impressions: Yes, I know (at the risk of minor spoilers) that it's because it's some kind of wacky magical shadow eye giving him timeloop powers, but good lord, are they going out of their way to make it obtrusive every time they zoom in on one […]
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Summer Time Render Episode 2
Gunshots on such a quiet night will be heard far and wide. This ain't America." This is so fucking funny, thank you Shadow Mio. Damn it, this episode…
Summer Time Render Episode 10
Not much info was given to us this episode compared to last episode, in fact it just added to the mystery of the whole island as well as…
Summer Time Render Episode 7
Shinpei meets up with Nezu and Hizuru and their team forms as Hizuru naturally believes Shinpei's story. All of them being aware of the Shadows and personally being…
Summer Time Render Episode 6
So I think we have a starting point of when things started happening. "That" certain day 14 years ago on the island. A certain something happened that Alan…
Summer Time Render Episode 19
A new time loop has started and things are ramping up immediately as Haine and Shide are not wasting any more time.
Summer Time Render #05 — Legion
Whole lot of gaping head wounds this week. Sorry this is a bit delayed. Irregular work meeting this morning that both started late and then ran extremely…
Summer Time Render Episode 13
New cour means new OP and ED and I'll be honest, I'm missing the first ones a lot. If the visuals in the OP are any indication of…
Summer Time Render Episode 4
This was a weird episode. The first half of the episode tonally was way out of left field and kind of took me out of what was happening,…
Summer Time Render Episode 11
A bit of a slower episode this time but still filled with even more mystery and questions about this entire island. My suspicions towards Tokiko and the Hishigata…
Summer Time Render Episode 20
We're getting at the point of the show where if there are consequences, it's going to be permanent now. Shinpei is really getting at his limit of his…
Summer Time Render #21 — Rebirth
Beginning of the end. Impressions: Very much a calm before the ending episode, with everybody going around declaring who they like, but not a whole ton else.…
Summer Time Render Episode 16
After last week's huge battle, the gang slows down as they recruit Shadow Mio into the group, and it ended up being way easier than I thought it…
Summer Time Render Episode 5
Well I can see why people were hyping this episode up. I feel like we've seen the endgame of this story but we're still only in the beginning.…
Summer Time Render Episode 12
The first half of Summer Time Renders ends in a brutal fashion after the group make their way to meet with Haine and learn the truth that Tokiko…
Summer Time Render Episode 3
This episode was a lot slower compared to the last two, but still had that eerie air about it as we continue on with the mystery. Something I…
First Look: Summer Time Render
Shinpei Ajiro is returning from Tokyo to his island home in Wakayama prefecture to attend the funeral of his childhood friend Ushio. Although Ushio supposedly died while saving…
Summer Time Render #18 — Whale Abuse
That's definitely the face of someone who has had sex with a whale. Impressions: All right, we're starting to run out our good will from the gym…
Summer Time Render Episodes 8 & 9
Episode 8 felt pretty weird. It was pretty lighthearted for the most part until Shadow Mio came in to attack Shinpei, but the animation felt really different as…
Summer Time Render #14 — Friendship Touch
Boy, that's convenient. I did glance at the second episode of Yakuza Babysitter and the first episode of the second season of Devil is a Part Timer,…
Anime Taste Testing: Summer Time Render
Somehow underwhelming and overwhelming both at once.
Summer Time Render #04 — Confess Yourself
Yes, yes. We're all horny teens here. Impressions: They really, really needed to get to in-fighting between the copies a lot sooner. Fifteen goddamned minutes of goofy…
Summer Time Render Episodes 17 & 18
Weird how they dropped a bombshell like Shide being an ancestor of the Hishigata family and for the next episode to not even touch on that. I was…
Summer Time Render Episodes 14 & 15
So it looks like my fears for this show might be coming true. This second half of the show really is not feeling like the tone of the…
Summer Time Render #07 — Head Pops
Mmm juicy. I legitimately forgot about Ikkitousen's miniseries's second episode on Tuesday. In my defense, it was even worse than the first. Hakufu went to an island…
Summer Time Render #20 — Advanced Knowledge
More immediate beheadings of silly people, please. Impressions: I do kind of wish that they had actually won the beach fight, even if it was a pyrrhic…
Summer Time Render #08 — Mostly Armless
The godawful distorted reaction faces need to go. Impressions: Another very talky episode past the stabbings at the start, and definitely dragged down by the obnoxious faces…
Summer Time Render #25 — Unconcerned With Paradoxes
What? No return to awkward and creepy panty shots? I know I've not gotten to the three shows that aired so far. I'll do at least two…
Summer Time Render Episode 1 (First Impression)
Well wow, color me intrigued because I really enjoyed this episode. I didn't think things would escalate that far at the end so it took me by surprise.…
Summer Time Render #22 — The Fireworks Factory
That seems like a lot of fireworks to just leave sitting around somewhere. Impressions: There's something I always love about whenever Tokiko snaps at the others. She's…
Summer Time Rendering Episode #01
Hey everyone, I’m here to take this show airing in Spring 2022 as we begin with our protagonist Shinpei Ajiro returning to his hometown of Hitogashima on July…
Summer Time Render #02 — And Now, The Stabbings
If we could stop using the fourteen year old as fanservice bait, that'd be swell. Impressions: How many gratuitous panty shots and bath scenes do we need…
Summer Time Render #23 — Into the Upside Down
We're somehow missile surfing, and I'm fine with that. A little slow this morning just because of an early obligatory vet checkup, but I am out of…
Summer Time Render #06 — Upside Down Boob Window
Weird flex, but okay. For the third time, Dawn of the Witch is off this week for no particular reason. Impressions: A very exposition heavy episode, and…
Summer Time Render #13 — The Beheadings Will Continue
Until morale improves. Impressions: Welp, that was a pretty slow episode, right up until it wasn't, and then it was again. This is exactly what I was…
Summer Time Render #11 — Four Armed Gun Monster
Just like SCOTUS dreams of. Impressions: Another weirdly fairly uneventful episode that is veering ever harder towards the obligatory infodump from the obligatory cultists and the obligatory…
Summer Time Render #12 — Chicken and the Eye
Whole lotta conveniently placed nipple shadows this week. Impressions: Boy, when people start getting shot in the face, everybody gets a piece of that. This is where…
Summer Time Render #15 — Rumble at the Gym
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are somewhat deadish. Impressions: Absolutely fantastic episode. The real strength of the characters and the story in this show is the constant back and…
Summer Time Render #16 — Sins of the Father
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Summer Time Render #09 — The Importance of Onboarding
Half this episode was basically the Spiderman meme. Impressions: Oh boy, a flashback episode. You know how I love those. But as far as flashback episodes go,…
Summertime Render – 01
「さよなら夏の日」 (Sayonara natsu no hi) "Goodbye, Summer's Day" Supernatural thrillers are such a natural fit for anime, but my hunger for a truly great one is forever unsated.
Summer Time Render #19 — Spear vs Hammer vs Gun
Dude with a sniper rifle gonna help out here or what? Impressions: There's something funny to me about these teams. In team A, we have an accomplished…
Summer Time Render #24 — Talking is a Free Action
A very free action. Impressions: The pacing of this episode was kind of godawful. I think maybe sixty seconds passed over fifteen minutes. Was it a budget…
Summer Time Render #10 — Checking Out the Gift Shop
Is there any security at this evil shrine at all? Impressions: A very dull and uneventful episode, which feels like a strange thing to say about Team Scooby…
Summer Time Render #17 — Old People With Strange Heads
I miss the gym episode. Impressions: Another pretty uneventful (ie dull) episode. It seemingly very unceremoniously wrapped up all of Nezu's loose ends by just out and…
A Very Good Anime – Summer Time Render Ep 1-2 Review
Can Shinpei escape both a time loop and looming shadows on a tiny island in Japan? Reviewing episode one and two of Summer Time Render.
Summer Time Render #03 — “Let’s Split Up and Search The Haunted House”
His eye is magic. I get it. Please stop with the closeups. Impressions: The start was okay enough, though still in very much a corny horror kind…
Summer Time Rendering
Summer Time Rendering is an anime that adapts the entire manga in one straight shot, which works incredibly well because this is very much the type of story…
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After a suitably creepy dream that seems to set the tone, Summertime Render then suddenly seems to stumble, with Ajiro Shinpei waking up with his face all up in a…
Review: Summer Time Rendering
Rating: A- When Shinpei Ajiro left his home island of Hitogashima to attend school in Tokyo, his childhood friend Ushio (whose family he had lived with since the…