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Some Quick First Impressions: Phantom in the Twilight, Jashin-chan Dropkick...
Phantom in the Twilight Short Synopsis: A girl accidentally comes across a cafe full of supernatural beings and learns that she’s the chosen one Lenlo’s Review: From this episode, I can’t see anything...
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Summer 2018 Anime Coverage
With this seemingly never-ending stream of new shows finally comes to an end, it’s time again for the announcement of our seasonal coverage. While I agree with the sentiments that this season is...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 02 [Bloody Butterfly Effect / Manana and Ootoro and...
The misadventures of Chio-chan on her way to school continues with some extra flavour. As of now, Chio-chan splits its segments neatly in two halves, the first deals with Chio encounters the absurd...
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Hanebado! – 02/03 [Meat’s the Best After a Workout!/ She Was Perfect]
When people thinks about Hanebado, they tend to regard the excellent animation as its strongest point. While I partly agree on that, for me it’s the small character acting that makes this show sticks...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 03 [Bloody Butterfly Effect 2 – The Kabaddic Four]
I have a feeling that Chio-chan is trying to test me. “You said you like me, huh? This is the real me, see if you can take it”. Well, I think what happened in the second half is bound to happen...
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight – 02 [The Stage of Fate]
Please check out the Starlight theme to get in the stage-dueling mood. This show climbs up to be my favorite show of this season. It has all these elements that personally are my cup of tea: many...
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Hanebado! – 04 [I’m Lost Right Now, Too]
Hanebado goes full drama this week, in fact it’s so dramatic that it sucks out all the fun of it. Hanebado just doesn’t know how to handle over-the-top character, resulted in them riding the plot in a...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 04 (Smoke on the Sailor – Taking the Cherry Blossom...
Like Hinamatsuri last season, I wouldn’t have expected that Chio-chan having an “arc” for their side-characters; the “supporting casts start to grow whereas the lead stays the same” bit. This is the...
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight – 03 [Top Star]
Well, we have a slower week of Revue Starlight compared to the first two episodes, mainly because the first half is more about setting up the girls’ dynamic than introduction. It’s not a complaint,...
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Hanebado! – 05 [You’re Not Alone]
So this week Hanebado moves from contrived drama into… shameless fanservice? Woah, honestly I didn’t see girls taking bathing naked coming in this series. In more serious affair, I enjoy the story lot...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 05 [Thank You, George/ Mananacchio]
You know, watching Chio-chan I have feeling just like watching a brilliant kid playing around. It’s consistently funny from start to finish; it’s very, very relatable, but sometimes you can’t help but...
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight – 04 [Promise Tower]
I bet most of us coming out of this episode feeling a little underwhelming. Where’s all these revue duel? Where is the talking giraffe? To its defense though, this week builds the central dynamic of...
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Hanebado! – 06 [It’s Our Last Summer, You Know]
It’s a side-character focus episode this week, and Hanebado goes back to its “more subtle” drama (note: more subtle by the show’s standard), which I gladly enjoy. It’s the glasses Riko who takes the...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 06 [Everyone’s Own Path – Chio-chan Eludes]
Chio-chan… well… doesn’t go well this week. Not necessary because of the reappearance of crash fanservice gags – which for now I pretty much roll with, but because it’s a replication of Chio-chan’s...
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight – 05 [Is Sparkle Even Possible]
Revue Starlight is back to business this week with its bizarrely entertaining duel. In a way, this duel is a long way coming as this is one of the development I expected to happen sooner or later....
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Hanebado! – 07 [I’ll Mop the Floor With Her]
I was wrong. I don’t enjoy this dead-eye expression of Ayano at all. It feels as though we’re watching a completely different Ayano characters compared to the first few episodes. That just means in no...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 07 [Convenience Store Chio-chan – Chio-chan and the...
This episode of Chio-chan sure brings back my memory. I was one of those stupid boys who played that zapping butt game (among other stupid games, like stick a pen where my friends would sit) and let...
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Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight – 06 [Their Path of Triumph]
With this episode, it becomes clear that Revue Starlight is less about Karen and more about the development of the entire cast. This week we get into the insights of Kaoruko and Futaba through the...
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Hanebado! – 07 [The Badminton I Want to Play]
Welcome to Hanebado AKA the sport anime where young players get repeatedly abused by the adults. Last few weeks we have the most terrible Mom ever and this week, a loud mouth coach. I mean, what’s up...
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Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro – 08 [Yuki-chan Doesn’t Care/ Chio Fisher/...
At the very first moment of this episode, we have a glaring fanservice shot of Chio changing clothes and I thought to myself: “Chio-chan just can’t stop itself from having so much fun”. But it later...
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