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Girls’ Last Tour – 05 [House – Nap – The Sound of Rain]
Although Girls’ Last Tour can be described as a dark moe, there’s no denying that the show is the most comforting, healing anime of this season. What Girls’ Last Tour achieve flawlessly so far is its...
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Houseki no Kuni – 05 [Return]
So… Phos got new pair of legs. Not only that, they make a Forest-Gump leap that not only they can walk properly with the new legs, they can run like a wind. Although we’re still at the introduction...
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Juuni Taisen – 06 [Even a Champion Racehorse May Stumble]
Like what I predicted last week, halfway point and we have multiple deaths this week and the betting is officially kicking into gear. Unlike what I predicted last week, it’s not two but three players...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 06 [Takeoff]
Some might say futility is an essence of life. That we spend our life wasted away for complete nothingness. And some might argue that what their life worth is based on how much they contribute to the...
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Houseki no Kuni – 06 [First Battle]
Houseki maintains its impressive streak this week, with Phos learning their new role patronizing, a job once again clearly isn’t suitable for our main character. While you could say Houseki follows...
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Juuni Taisen – 07 [In Like a Dragon, Out Like a Snake (Part 1)]
For a character who officially dead before Juuni Taisen started (and thus, render him “useless” to win the tournament), Snake is surprisingly one of the most fearsome warrior of the race so far. He...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 07 [Labyrinth – Cooking]
After one of the most plot-heavy episode last week, Girls’ Last Tour goes back to its minimalist root this time, with only the girls and two interior settings. This could be Girls’ Last Tour’s...
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Houseki no Kuni – 07 [Hibernation]
Ho boy, I know Houseki’s world-building is unique but the idea of gems’ hibernation in winter due to the lack of sunlight? What a creative idea it is. This winter landscape makes a nice contrast to...
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Juuni Taisen – 08 [In Like a Dragon, Out Like a Snake (Part 2)]
Can’t say I am fond of a huge flashback where they advance almost nothing to the plot, let alone an extended flashback-within-a-flashback. It hurts as well as the production takes quite a disastrous...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 08 [Memory – Spiral – Moonlight]
Girls’ Last Tour again addresses many things about the meaning of life through its very minimalist method. This week, the girls encounter massive filing cabinets that remind me a great deal to the...
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Houseki no Kuni – 08 [Antarcticite]
Houseki’s just getting better and better huh? This episode is a knock-out, this series is truly a knock-out. It must be Houseki’s most devastating episode, leaving Phos, Antarc and Kongou-sensei the...
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Juuni Taisen – 09 [The Man Who Chases Two Rabbits Catches Neither]
Oh fuck… Turns out Dragon’s plan all along was to chime in, just so that he is immediately taken down by the flying Rabbit. Lame. What a load of crap. I mean, Dragon has been contributing absolutely...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 09 [Life]
Leave it to Girls’ Last Tour to not only address the meaning of life in their lifeless world, but also what does life itself even mean. “What is life?”, that question is asked several times during the...
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Houseki no Kuni – 09 [Spring]
Houseki approaches summertime this episode and this week feels like a breather after the intensity from the last few weeks, by that I mean Phos didn’t get into any real trouble by the end of this...
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Juuni Taisen – 10 [A Tiger May Die, But It Leaves Its Skin]
Juuni Taisen again expands a huge flashback in the middle of the current story, but this one hits all the right notes because naturally its heart is in the right place. It’s episode like this that I...
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Houseki no Kuni – 10 [Shiro]
This week proves to be the most action-packed episode Houseki has been offering so far and unconventionally, it’s Dia who takes the central stage at facing the most ridiculously overpowered Lunarian...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 10 [Train – Wavelength – Capture]
Girls’ Last Tour examines the concept of time and space this week, as the girls riding on a lonely moving train. The train design fits right in with this world: a long metal box that functions all by...
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Juuni Taisen – 11 [To Treat a Man to Beef From His Own Cow]
To the surprise of no one, Rat wins the race by breaking in the right place at the right time with the right weapon. This is by no mean a coincidence, because later on we learn about Rat’s real power:...
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Houseki no Kuni – 11 [Secrets]
With “Secrets”, Phos’ now in the middle of “loss of innocence” personal crisis. Well, they did reach that stage when Phos’ suffering over Antarc’s loss (in which he still hallucinates about Antarc’s...
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Girls’ Last Tour – 11 [Culture – Destruction – The Past]
Despite its moeblob nature of our two girls, Girls’ Last Tour still keeps up its lowkey depression – such element that make this show so grounded in its world. In this episode, that stark, depressed...
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