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Greetings and Strangulations – Asura Cryin 01 Decompressed

The first episode of Asura Cryin’ is incredibly dense in terms of material. It’s got childhood trauma, self-sacrifice, silly friend antics, social commentary, ghost haunting,…

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First Look Fair: Kanokon 1 and the Nature of Fanservice

Fanservice in anime is, in many cases, divorced from actual sex–actual foreplay, actual intent to copulate, have intercourse, do the nasty, get to home plate….

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The Catchup 1: True Tears 4-7

This is the first in a series of aggregate episode reviews to make up for not having blogged regularly for such a long time…first up…

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School Days OVA, Valentine Days: Inside Every Melodrama is a Comedy Waiting to Get Out

Can he really be saying that about Makoto? The final burial of this show is done expertly, and hilariously, by the makers of the anime…

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Clannad 13-14: A Theory of Expectations

Is it a bad sign when the end of the Kotomi arc reminds me, more than anything else, of the episode of The Simpsons that…

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First Look Fair: H20–Footprints in the Sand

This seminarian groaned when he saw what this first line intimated for the rest of the scene. What? They actually start the whole frickin’ series…

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