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Anime Review: Kokoro Connect
What if, randomly, you and your friends suddenly began to switch minds? One moment you were you, another moment you were in the body of your friend and they in yours. What if you and your friends had...
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To be great is to be bold. Charisma, a certain powerful presence, moves money, hearts, and nations. On the smaller scale, those charming folk, we all know one or two at least, have a certain knack for...
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Anime Reviews: Astarotte no Omocha, Hanamaru Yōchien, Ghost Stories
Much like before, another triple batch of mini-reviews for those few I watch for which I just have less to say about.Astarotte no Omocha (or Astarotte’s Toy) is yet another series that struggles with...
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Anime Reviews: Battle Girls, YuruYuri, Chitose Get You!!, Teekyuu
Another batch of smaller reviews. Due to holidays and other things I held off on watching some of the more interesting/important series.Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox (retitled Battle Girls: Time...
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Anime Review: Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Many decades ago, a young girl died tragically down in a now forgotten room of the old wing of the school. No one remembers exactly why or what really happened, but rumors persist to this day of her...
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Anime Reviews: GJ-bu, Poyopoyo, Ai Mai Mi
I don’t really have a linking theme this time around. Just mini-review triplets!GJ-bu is pointlessly cute and yet strangely appealing to me. I’m almost embarrassed how effective it was at roping me in....
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Anime Review: Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
She is an introverted loner who cares only for her studies and grades. He is rambunctious, random, naïve, honest, and dangerous when he's mad. It is a clashing of two totally opposite personalities as...
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Anime Review: Shinryaku! Ika Musume
Thus cometh the invader, the fearsome Squid Girl! Oh wait, actually she looks twelve and keeps getting distracted from her invasion goal with other random tangents with the family that runs a cafe on...
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Anime Review: Bakemonogatari & Nisemonogatari
Now a mostly-cured human after briefly becoming a vampire, our high school senior hero Araragi finds himself mixed up, primarily due to his meddlesome nature, with a number girls each of whom is...
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Anime Review: Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
An idiot savant girl, the namesake of the series, transfers to an art-centric high school to pursue a career as a manga artist despite already being a child prodigy in the painting fine arts. But while...
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Anime Review: Sword Art Online
A new MMO that uses virtual reality headsets to play garners a lot of buzz in the gamer community after a successful private beta. The public release is marked by a lot hype, especially when it is...
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Anime Review: Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru
Years and years ago I remember being an extremely hardcore Tenchi Muyo! fan, specifically the original OVA. At the time, I was busy admiring the suave Kagato, digging the funky trees-in-space sci-fi,...
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Anime Reviews: Mangirl!, Yurumates 3D, Encouragement of Climb, Cosplay Complex
A quadruple batch of mini-reviews of odds and ends.Mangirl! maintains a frenzied pace and is mostly silly and cartoony but still amusing. There’s a lot of focus on the manga biz, which ends up being...
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Anime Review: Kimi ni Todoke
Looking too much like the creepy girl from The Ring movies, our heroine Sawako is timid and shy and naïve to say the least. But after starting a new semester of school a gregarious and kind popular boy...
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Anime Review: Another
One thing is for sure, horror anime are few and far between but can be some of the best uses of the medium if done correctly. My interest was instantly piqued upon seeing the synopsis and studio (the...
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Anime Review: Angel Beats!
For a show that garners such universal acclaim, I had perhaps worked up a bit too much hope for Angel Beats! before finally sitting down to watch it. I try very hard to resist even looking at much...
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Anime Review: Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai: Under the Innocent Sky
As much as I am disgusted with the increasing regularity of vapid and masturbatory male-fantasy fanservice employed in more and more anime these days (especially those that spawn from visual/light...
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Review: My Little Pony Equestria Girls
It's the “Mane Six”, only in… human form? Early leaks and promotional info was met with great suspicion and doubt within the MLP community — and still is, since many in the fandom are waiting until it...
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Anime Review: Working!!
Slice-of-life shows like this are always difficult to review. They tend to attract statements like “funny, really enjoyable, and surprisingly earnest”; but rarely anything specific because it isn’t...
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Anime Review: Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
I frequently bemoan the over-saturated and generic “high school setting” in anime, especially because it seems like easily half if not more of all shows tend to fall into this category. I understand...
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