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12 Days, 12 Moments 2010: My Soul, Your Beats

Angel Beats was a show that aspired to greatness and ended up being merely good. What Jun Maeda fails to grasp with his reach in…

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Midpoint Review: Angel Beats, Character Development, and Tragic Possibility

Or, why sob stories are not always character development, and what the story might become.

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Clannad 10-12: Antisocial is the New Moe

This is strange. Why do I already feel, in just three episodes, that when the Plight Turn occurs for Kotomi–it more or less works? Is…

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Clannad 9–Did I Cry?

No. But that doesn’t stop this from being the most heartfelt, genuine, and overall best Key plotline ever. Here’s why.

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Clannad 7-8: The End of Memory

I can’t help it. The Fuko arc really does work after all, in spite of itself. Maybe the reason why the arc is so long…

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Clannad 3–A Little Step Back

I remember I was gushing over episode 2, probably more for personal reasons than for genuine artistic ones (though I do think this is the…

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