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[Review] Heroines Run the Show
When something comes along you didn’t even realize you needed, much less wanted, the ensuing satisfaction and affections are that much more memorable. Heroines Run the Show appeared…
Heroines Kinda Run The Show
Heroines Run the Show is an odd mishmash that has a lot of great elements but never really comes together. At least in my experience.
Heroines Run the Show – Episode 1
A shoujo-esque coming-of-age series? Idols with art deco aesthetics? And its production has more than a ham sandwich to its name? Is it my birthday?
First Impressions – Heroines Run the Show!
Welcome back to Otaku Thursday! Spring is just going by in a flash. I feel like we’ve only just started this season and it’s already almost halfway over!…
First Impression: Heroines Run the Show
If an anime not already on my radar is going to pull me in, sport elements, I’ve discovered, are the way to do it. During my lunch break…
Heroines Run the Show – 10 – The Stir
The rumors of a LIPxLIP member romance around going away, as evidenced by the appearance of the photos on television, with Hiyori’s face pixelated. That makes it so…
Heroines Run the Show – 08 – Photo Finish
With the departure of Nagisa (and, it would seem, Hiyori’s makeover) the show moves on to something else…Field Day, which always ends up a lot blander than the…
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In order to continue pursuing track and field, Hiyori left her small hometown and moved to Tokyo. After her father gets injured, she takes a part-time job
Heroines Run the Show – 04 – Two Grooms
Clearly more moved than she expected by their princely defense of her against the vile Yumeru, Hiyori has a dream about marrying Aizou and Yuujirou, and the two…
Heroines Run the Show – 05 – Their Juliet
Hiyori’s foot injury isn’t something that goes away overnight. Like Embiid being out with a fractured orbital, it ruins any chance of coming close to touching her goal.…
Heroines Run the Show – 09 – Whose Girlfriend?
After what felt like a relatively sedate field day detour, HRS kicks back into gear, though there’s a bit of lag as the first half or so of the…
Heroines Run the Show – 11 – The Mask Falls
Our episode opens on someone we haven’t met before: an extremely enthusiastic café maid adding her love to her customer’s omurice. When she removes her wig and puts…
Heroines Run the Show – 07 – Always My Heroine
Nagisa knows who LIPxLIP is, and it doesn’t take long to get Hiyori to admit that she’s working as their manager-in-training. It still doesn’t explain why they accompanied…
Heroines Run the Show – 02 – Oh My Crêpe!!
At first it looks like CEO Tamura and LIPxLIP manager Uchida have played a cruel prank on an unwitting Hiyori (whom Uchida misnames as “Hiyako”…maybe on purpose?!). Aizou…
Heroines Run the Show – 03 – Princely When it Counts
It was only a matter of time before LIPxLIP warmed up to Hiyori’s wholesome country charm. Yuujirou and Aizou were hostile towards her initially simply because they didn’t…
Heroines Run the Show: The Unpopular Girl and the Secret Task
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Heroines Run the Show – 01 – (First Impressions) – Clearing Every Hurdle
Who doesn’t love can-do country bumpkins? I for one can’t help but be endlessly charmed by them as I vicariously watch them navigate the Big City for the…
Heroines Run the Show – 06 – From Crap Creeps to Cute Crêpes
If Aizou is out of shampoo, Hiyori has no problem walking into the boy’s shower to get him more. It’s steamy, and it’s not like she’s in there…
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – 12 (Fin) – True Lies
The final Makeine episode focuses on plans to fool Anna’s friends, online and otherwise, into thinking she has a boyfriend when she doesn’t. While this is a plan she…
I’m in Love with the Villainess – 12 (Fin) – Tipping the Scales
Rae is certain that she’s lost Claire, and there’s nothing she can do to get her back. But then Manaria grabs her in the hall and asks why…
Love After World Domination – 12 (Fin) – Cutting of the Cake (Baby)
Fudou and Desumi are having one of their usual mid-battle idyllic meetups when Fudou tells her he’s going to appear in a commercial…for a bridal venue…as a groom,…
Vlad Love – 12 (Fin) – Interview with Vampire Girl A
The Vlad Love finale begins with one of its typical pop culture tangents, this time with Maki talking about the 1994 film Interview With the Vampire, which not only affirmed…
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! – 02 – Somewhere to Run
The next Losing Heroine in the blocks is the whimsically-named Yakishio Lemon, a tanned track ace who is popular with the guys but only has eyes for her…
Kakushigoto – 12 (Fin) – Lifting the Veil
Kakushigoto’s finale is truly a crowd-pleaser, and I mean that in the best way. It spends its entire runtime in the “future” and painstakingly reveals all of the…
Fabiniku – 12 (Fin) – From the Heart
When Tachibana’s rants and rampage convince Jinguuji that the best thing to do is to disappear from her sight, Schwartz rises as the true hero of this story by smacking…
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Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 2nd Attack – 12 (Fin) – Not Just a Dry Run
On a perfect, dazzling day, suddenly Naoto and Hayase are off on their first date together. When Senpai steals a glance, Hayase makes clear this is just “practice”,…
The Quintessential Quintuplets – 12 (Fin) – Team Effort
In an attempt to be fair, not equal, Miku cites a technicality in the Campfire Legend: the key is not dancing with Fuutarou, but holding his hand at the…
Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2 – 12 (Fin) – Adjusted for Inflation
After the thrilling but nearly completely comedy-free Ishigami Sports Festival denouement, Love is War returns to its bread-and-butter with a relatively understated slice-of-life, life-goes-on fina…
Campfire cooking Episode 12 (fin)
Well campfire cooking with my absurd skill in another world has come to an end. Really enjoyed this gourmet isekai show
Hamefura – 12 (Fin) – Doom Averted!
Hamefura borrows the dark, bleak tone of Re:Zero, swapping its usual pansexual harem desert gorging party and fake-snake R&D for a look back at “Sirius Dieke’s” inky-black pas…
Hyakkano – 12 (Fin) – Nothing Like the Real Thing
Turns out Hahari did not invite Rentarou to her bedroom to “deflower” him, though the opening shots and sounds they make together certainly lend that impression. When the…
Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut – 12 (Fin) – Moonlight Dreamers
Having watched Irina and Lev risk their lives so many times for each other and their country (very much in that order), Anya has decided it’s her turn…
Vanitas no Carte – 12 (Fin) – The Beast Lives
Vanitas and Jeanne end their bloody makeout session, neaten their clothes, and return to the streets, and Vanitas asks why she was permitted to spend the day with…
Chained Soldier – 12 (Fin) – Money on the Table
While Tenka saw her future with Yuuki and Aoba flash before her eyes last week, we get more of Kyouka’s past flashing by here in the finale, as…
The Faraway Paladin – 12 (Fin) – Illness of the Strong
Last week Will hit rock bottom as he fell into the same trap as countless other heroes, anime, isekai, or otherwise: trying to go it alone out of fear…
Cardcaptor Sakura – 70 (Fin) – The Card of Love
With all of Clow’s cards now converted to Sakura Cards and her tussles with Eriol & Co. at an end, Sakura has little to think about but Syaoran’s…
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Roshidere – 12 (S1 Fin) – Greater Heights
It had been abundantly clear for weeks before the official announcement that Roshidere would run for more than one cour. As such, the big final battle of this…
Akudama Drive – 12 (Fin) – Good Trouble
You could sense this was going to be a particularly intense finale when it starts with Swindler, Courier, and the kids surviving a violent Shinkansen derailing. Brother thinks…
SSSS.Dynazenon – 12 (Fin) – E Pluribus Gundum
Gauma is in a bad way and Second can only ease his pain, but with Gridknight and Goldburn losing ground to Shizumu, Yume and Yomogi know what to…
Yuru Camp△ – 12 (Fin) – Campvengers: Tentgame
The final episode of Yuru Camp’s first season ends somewhat confusingly with flash-forward that starts exactly how the previous episode ended: with Rin on a bike. Only this time…
SAKUGAN – 12 (FIN) – THICKER THAN BLOOD
The Big Twist that starts the SAKUGAN finale is that Memenpu actually is a “Rainbow Child”, a child with an exceptionally advanced brain. This not only explains why she’s a genius…
Kimizero – 12 (Fin) – Their First Time*
* No, not that first time. Runa and Ryuuto are once again inseparable, with Runa loudly proclaiming her feelings for him to everyone around. Honestly, I wouldn’t be embarrassed.…
Tenten Kakumei – 12 (Fin) – In Rainbows
Last week ended with the promise of an unprecedented duel between Anis and Euphie, to decide who will become queen by being made to suffer in one form…
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Ultra Romantic – 12 (Fin) – Blossoms That Never Scatter
When Miyuki tells Kaguya how he’s been accepted to Harvard and will be gone this time next year, she pretty much turns to stone and then shatters into…
SOS for Love- My Fave Tokusatsu Heroines [Editorial]
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Arte – 12 (Fin) – The Firenze She Made Along the Way
Matei pays a visit to Arte to apologize for his rude comments. Especially once he sees her gorgeous portrait of Lady Sofia, he admits to harboring an “ugly…
Bocchi the Rock! – 12 (Fin) – Ultra Super Bocchi-chan
It’s time to play, and BtR get’s right down to it. But while I was relieved Bocchi was on the stage, but there were still things to dread. Would…