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Owarimonogatari 2 – 01 [Mayoi Hell]
The Monogatari-fest is reaching near its end. For those of you who are slightly off about the current events; here’s a brief break down. Araragi wakes up in Hell and learns from Mayoi that he had been...
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Owarimonogatari 2 – 02 [Hitagi Rendezvous]
This arc certainly is a calm before the big storm, in which instead of the final showdown promised at the end of Mayoi Hell, we have a date between Araragi and Hitagi, a day after his college exam and...
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Owarimonogatari – 03 [Ougi Dark]
Well done Monogatari for building up a final showdown that is tense, not by the climatic battle but by the amount of information release, how the pieces of the the puzzle finally get into place. An...
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Princess Principal – 06 [Case 18 Rouge Morgue]
We have a very tender Princess Principal episode this week. Instead of exciting spy action like previous weeks, we get to the place that is largely ignored by the rest of the world: a morgue. A place...
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Classroom of the Elite – 06 [There are Two Kinds of Lies; One concerns an...
Youkoso embraces its true nature this week, pulling off some resolves that are pulpy, but clean up nicely the conflicts they present this episode. With episode 6, not only class-D settles the...
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18if – 07 [And now There are none…]
This episode is one of the reason why I am glad that I’m still putting my faith on 18if, an episode that displays a complete different range of visual style, and a satisfying children’s story about...
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Princess Principal – 07 [Case 16 Loudly Laundry]
This week in Princess Principal … what exactly did I just watch? Suddenly spies do (steampunk) laundry and do business as well? Getting 231% raised in revenue and catch a thief in a process? That’s a...
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Classroom of the Elite – 07 [Nothing is as Dangerous as an Ignorant Friend; A...
This is your usual pool episode, except that it’s not quite your usual pool episode. The pool activities and the peeping Tom operation serve as a surface for some subtler scheming, and set the...
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18if – 08 [Threshold]
It’s nice to see an anime episode that tackle on the everyday life’s problems of people who experience hearing loss: ya know, having trouble with boss, can’t hear what the waiter says, don’t realize...
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Princess Principal – 08 [Case 20 Ripper Dipper]
We have a much-needed backstory of The Princess and the Pickpocket in the Black Lizard Planet this week. The actual case of week 8 was reduced into some minor scenes, but now I become more certain...
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Classroom of the Elite – 08 [Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here]
While watching this episode, I had some serious flashback towards Youkoso’s premiere episode, where the plot likewise just drifted around the sea until that final reveal kicked in. It’s basically a...
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18if – 09 [Idols Don’t Go to the Bathroom!]
We have an episode that serves as a commentary on the idol industry and as a cumming of dick jokes where dick can literally transform into a green genie. I can kind of appreciate the former but the...
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Princess Principal – 09 [Case 11 Pell-mell Duel]
Now I can forgive the show for taking too long to introduce Chise; because we have a Chise-focus this week and I’m glad that episode 9 of Princess Principal does everything just right. This episode...
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Classroom of the Elite – 09 [Man is Condemned to be Free]
Funny that with the sounding name like “Classroom of the Elite”, this episode moves as far away as possible from the “classroom” scenario and of course in no way those kids are the “elite”, because no...
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18if – 10 [Dream Dimension α]
I can understand a lot of viewers will get turn off by this episode, but allow me to say that the low frame rates and the off-model characters are all intentional and I can argue that despite its...
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Princess Principal – 10 [Case 22 Comfort Comrade]
Okay, now we’re getting somewhere. Remember what did Ange vow to the Princess when the two decided to go ahead with the Operation: Changeling? She will deceive everyone, including the Princess and...
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Classroom of the Elite – 10 [Every Man has in Himself the Most Dangerous...
A chronology of events from class-D where nothing seems to happen, but there’s a seed of doubt buried down underneath and now waiting for its chance to crawl out of the surface? It sounds so...
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18if – 11 [The Thorn Cross Association]
Hum, never know that Eve is a ginger and has wings like an angel and wears that cool dress. I’ve always thought she’s always naked. hmmm Finally, 18if provides an overarching double length plot to...
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Princess Principal – 11 [Case 23 Humble Double]
Hmmm, something doesn’t ring true here. As this episode ends, we can assume that the Princess and Ange have a big break-up, Princess plays the role of Ange under the Princess’s disguise, and Ange has...
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Classroom of the Elite – 11 [What People Commonly call Fate is Mostly their...
So suddenly, without mentioned at any point before, Horikita can suddenly kicks ass? Or that Horikita has been sick ALL THIS TIME? Or that Horikita still can kick some ass while being sick all this...
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