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Flip Flappers – 05 [Pure Echo]
And Flip Flippers is back in business; with a style. But guess what, instead of the girls adventuring in a new Pure Illusion world like last week’s cliffhanger suggested, it appears the show has some...
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3-gatsu no Lion – 05 [Agreement – Over the Cuckoo’s Nest]
In a typically 3-gatsu no Lion fashion, the first chapter “Agreement” starts in the show’s most comfort zone: flashbacks inside Rei’s head. When you really think about the overall structure of this...
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Thunderbolt Fantasy Review – 84/100
Sometimes you dread for the current state of anime: high school settings, cute girls, fan-service jokes, idol madness… that you wish for once to see something different, and out of nowhere an oddball...
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Zaregoto Series OVA 01 [Day 3 (1) The Savant Gathering]
Another NisiOisiN’s light novel series adapted by Shaft? Count me in as I admit that Monogatari series is one of my beloved shows. Well, certainly one of the shows that I spend the most time with. I...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 06 [Rainy Conductor]
After the performance in the Kansai competition, we get to a breather episode this week, meaning that there is no actual band training this week, instead we have school festival (geez, how many...
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Flip Flappers – 06 [Pure Play]
This episode was magnificent. I always know that Flip Flappers is capable of being inventive, but I’d never have thought that they can pull an episode that emotional satisfying, while never swing away...
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3-gatsu no Lion – 06 [Child of God part 1 – part 2]
Okay, I think I need to let this out first: What is that screenshot right at the end of preview chapter? I know some other mangaka draw this (Like Miura did in the first episode), but this image of...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 07 [Station Concert]
After spending the first half of this season for second year drama and the regional Kansai competition, it’s only natural for Sound Eupho to turn their focus on the third-year students now. After all,...
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Flip Flappers – 07 [Pure Component]
And here I thought I know what to expect from this show, yet I would never anticipate a Flip Flappers episode that is a direct continuity to the event of last week. In addition, this episode serves as...
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3-gatsu no Lion – 07 [Important Things. Important Matters – Teach Me How to...
Oh, the vitality of youth and first crush! It’s fun to see Hina’s under that crush spell and making a big fuss over Takahashi coming for dinner. As for Takahashi, he climbs up from being “an object of...
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Strange Frame – Love & Sax (2012) Movie Review – 76/100
Hooray, I’m finally back to this section after a while. I originally plan to review a more in-focus groups of animated films, like Korean movies, anthology movies, female-directed films, etc but now I...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 08 [Rhapsody in Flu]
This week, the show delivers one of my favorite Eupho moments: as Kumiko and Reina quietly listen to the Euphonium CD, enjoying that little moments when the music is playing with drama or conflict yet...
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Flip Flappers – 08 [Pure Breaker]
Yay, I’ve reached 100th post here at this site, and if you can probably tell from my still-clumsy writing this is also my first 100 blogging ever. This isn’t much to be completely frank but it’s a...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 09 [Sound! Euphonium]
Two-third of this Fall season have passed and usually this is the time for our shows to reach to their full potential. Sound Eupho, comfortably delivers one of its best episode of this second season....
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Flip Flappers – 09 [Pure Mute]
Again this week, Yayaka takes up the stage and by the end of this episode her arc is basically over, now that she is abandoned by the Cult and is taken over by Cocona and Papika. But what an emotional...
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3-gatsu no Lion – 08 [Image – Distant Thunder part 1]
We’re back with 3-gatsu no Lion after a week hiatus from sick leave (I know everyone got sick last week, be it in springtime in this corner of the world, or the start of winter elsewhere) and I’m glad...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 10 [After-School Obbligato]
This season surely gives us too much of Kumiko-cuteness versions. After the fluffy little Kumiko last few weeks, the bedridden sore throat Kumiko, the surprisingly “always listening – always...
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Flip Flappers – 10 [Pure Jitter]
So her whole life is a lie, huh? Now that she realizes Yayaka’s friendship as a fake, Cocona’s partnership as a substitute, Flip Flapp organization downright used her for their gains, obaa-chan even...
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3-gatsu no Lion – 09 [Distant Thunder part 2 – part 3]
“The calm mind is the way” It becomes true to both Rei and our old man Matsunaga this week, since their minds are totally tangled with so many unnecessary thoughts and feelings. In more than one way,...
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Sound! Euphonium 2 – 11 [First Love Trumpet]
At long last we have a whole episode focusing on Reina after being sidelined for the whole season. I had my fears going to this episode as developing her crush on Taki-sensei isn’t the direction I...
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