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SUMMER 2016 Taste Testing Part 3
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An adult anime for teenage edgelords. It seems that nearly every time I see a psychological genre anime marketed explicitly towards the seinen crowd, it feels exactly like…
Anime Taste Testing: Listeners
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Anime Taste Testing: ID:Invaded
Finally, the detective anime we didn’t know we needed (but that we definitely deserved). You’d be forgiven for wanting to give up on the anime detective/mystery genre entirely…
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Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay.
Anime Taste Testing: Overtake!
Let’s all ganbaru together.
Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
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Strap yourself in, this is one wild trip. And a trip Dorehedoro most certainly is. Whether it’s one you can stomach or not largely depends on your tolerance…
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Fast and Furious: Okinawa Drift.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 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 16
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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 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 19
A new time loop has started and things are ramping up immediately as Haine and Shide are not wasting any more time.
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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…
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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.…
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Anime Taste Testing: Urasekai Picnic
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Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen
And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…
Anime Taste Testing: Kemono Jihen
While quite possibly the series I was least looking forward to giving a watch, this ended up being surprisingly alright.
Anime Taste Testing: Great Pretender
With the new anime season now starting up (however scant the offerings this time around to due COVID-related scheduling issues), I would be completely remiss if I didn’t…
Anime Taste Testing: Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
The lesser of the two mystery shows airing the season, but probably still the best period piece. I imagine the setting is what will first strike viewers about…
Anime Taste Testing: Hortensia Saga
This would have felt lackluster and cliché had it been released 20 years ago – and what’s more, nothing would have changed between then and now aside from…
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.
Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
Anime Taste Testing: Great Pretender
With the new anime season now starting up (however scant the offerings this time around to due COVID-related scheduling issues), I would be completely remiss if I didn’t…
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
Anime Taste Testing: Blue Period
This is one of those shows that I quite want to like, but am still in the process of working out if I actually do.
Anime Taste Testing: Appare-Ranman!
I mean… where do I even start? Well, at the very beginning, I guess, because the opening scene (set one year after the events of the first episode…
Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
Anime Taste Testing: Urusei Yatsura
Some anime do genuinely deserve a reboot. Others should probably never again see the light of day, no matter how historically important.
Anime Taste Testing: Platinum End
If Madoka Magica was a (bad) battle royale instead of magical-girl.
Anime Taste Testing: Bibliophile Princess
The only way to explain this is if people literally went out of their way to create something generic.