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Tsuki ga Kirei – 07 [Hold Back Nothing When Taking Love]
With this episode Tsuki ga Kirei marches on its impressive run. If there is one thing that I’m still impressed about Tsuki ga Kirei, it’s that despite its slow-pacing, the story never stands still....
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Uchoten Kazoku 2 – 08 [Ebisugawa Kaisei’s Secret]
Woah, there’s a lot of things going on in this episode. This week, The Eccentric Family returns to themes that it is most comfortable with: family and life’s purpose which have been put mostly on the...
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Sakura Quest – 09 [The Lady’s Scales]
So our cooking mini-arc has concluded and I was pretty much… indifferent to it by the end. It started strong last week but seems to run out of steam quickly this episode. For many developments the...
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Id-0 – 08 [Cracking the Flair]
ID-0 has another solid episode this week. Seriously, this show just keeps exceeding my (humble) expectation each passing week. This week our team tastes the first win towards the Federation, but in...
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Tsuki ga Kirei – 08 [Vita Sexualis]
Boy, the production has a nosedive in quality this week. It doesn’t hurt the show much though: the confident pacing and rock-solid chemistry between Akane and Kotarou are still there, but this episode...
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Uchoten Kazoku 2 – 09 [The Various Nidaime]
This episode sets up nicely the main conflict for what seem to be the final arc of Eccentric Family: the coming Nise-emon to choose the prime minister of this Kyoto tanuki clans, but bigger and more...
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Sakura Quest – 10 [The Dragon’s Sore Spot]
New week, new arc. Let’s see all the ingredients we have for this arc: Ririko (finally!), matchmaking tour (really? haha), Manoyama’s dance and the dragon’s furious. Quite a crazy combination if you...
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ID-0 – 09 [Seeking the Truth]
ID-0 pulled off another excellent episode. With this episode, we’re clear to one of the most central question of ID-0: who exactly is Ido, but the reveal opens up many more fascinating questions,...
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Tsuki ga Kirei – 09 [The Wind Rises]
A little bit of note that Tsuki ga Kirei was delayed a fair bit this week. Apparently, the Japan broadcast was still on schedule but Crunchyroll experienced a bit of extra time subbing it, which my...
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Window Horses (2016) Movie Review – 87/100
In Window Horses, or its full name Window Horses – The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming, many characters keep asking the main protagonist, a Stick Girl in an otherwise fully formed character...
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Announcement Time – Writer’s Recruitment
I’ll be straight to the point, it’s time for us to recruit a new permanent writer. The reason, you ask? Welp, as much as I don’t want to admit, each season I feel we left out too many shows that worth...
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Uchoten Kazoku 2 – 10 [The Day the Trick Magister is Chosen]
The plot of Eccentric Family thickens greatly as this episode ended and heads nicely towards a much-awaited climax. Well, all the developments are pretty much expected, but with a compelling twist. I...
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ID-0 – 10 [Compressed Sin]
Oh no, ID-0. Out of all the possibilities you could’ve picked for the climax, you chose the worst possible one. Ido’s past self, Dr. Kane Arisugawa turns out to be an evil scientist, using human as a...
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Sakura Quest – 11 [The Forgotten Requiem]
Well, apart from Ririko suddenly can sing confidently, and sings really well on top of that, this episode ends in high note. In fact, that statement really sum up this week of Sakura Quest as a whole....
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Tsuki ga Kirei – 10 [The Setting Sun]
Kotarou and Akane have reached a stage where they need to think hard about the long term of their relationship. Akane is about to move town, so how they going to keep up their relationship? Usually...
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Uchoten Kazoku 2 – 11 [The Blood of the Tengu, the Blood of the Fool]
The Eccentric Family again takes some solid steps to its final showdown. But let me address this first because I’m sure no one really see it coming. Soun comes back to life. A fake-out death?...
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Sakura Quest – 12 [The Dawn Guild]
Sakura Quest offers a pretty much Sakura Quest-esque this week, and I come to believe that this is a strong mini-arc to close-up the first half of its run. For the Tourism Board, the Manoyama Founding...
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ID-0 – 11 [Innocent Orbit]
I must say, despite my current worry from the direction ID-0 is heading towards the climax, we have another solid episode in our hands. Here’s one of the thing ID-0 continues to prove itself to be...
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Tsuki ga Kirei – 11 [An Encouragement of Learning]
Tsuki ga Kirei again manages something I thought was difficult to achieve: it surpasses itself once more time. I was afraid that after the Kawagoe festival, there isn’t much left drama for the...
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Uchoten Kazoku 2 – 12 [The Red String of Fate]
Oh god, this climax. Other shows, take note. This is how you SHOUD NOT do on your final battle. How this show can jump from Yasaburou, Yaichirou fighting the Fellow Friday for their lives last week,...
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