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Wake Up, Girls!: A Quick Review
One has to commend the accurately labeled shirts in this show. Yamakan’s latest effort at directing TV anime is very much not the comedy vehicles he tends to have the most success with. In fact, this...
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Nourin: A Quick Review
Ouch! Right in the testicles. Life in the countryside is full of compromise to everyone except for one naive young man and his love for a certain idol. This is another one of these life of farmers...
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Nisekoi: A Quick Review
You actually have to go through the entire episode before getting to this bit of normality. It’s really easy to call most things that Shaft produces over-directed, but it does feel hard to call Nisekoi...
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World Conquest Zvezda Plot: A Quick Review
It’s important to note that this destruction is the end result of this show. World Conquest is definitely a different kind of show about someone trying to conquer the world. The opening hints at a...
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Wizard Barristers: A Quick Review
This is the most fake form you will see this season. When a show uses a word like “barristers” in the title, my expectation is to compare it to all of the episodes of Law & Order and other legal...
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Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha: A Quick Review
Some would say she didn’t go far enough in pulling down his pants. In the final first episode review of this season, we have a show that doesn’t really accomplish much in the first of its 10 episode...
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On the Question of Why I Am Still Watching…
As some of you may know, I am pursuing a mission of watching as many new shows as I can this season to completion with the allowance of one dropped show (that I’ve already used). I got a question on...
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Wake Up Girls: Sports Anime About Idols
When watching recent episodes of Wake Up, Girls, a series about a struggling Sendai-based idol group of the same name, I could not help but think that I was watching a show that made the experience of...
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I Think I’ve Made a Mistake: The Spring 2014 Preview
This is the type of online card battle game I play. Terrible people make the best characters. When I talked about my plan to watch as many shows as I felt I could, I failed to take a bunch of things...
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This is Most Definitely A Mistake: The Alternative Spring 2014 Preview
Here you go people. Apologies to Neregate for being the source of desecrating their charts, but they deserve credit for putting this together.
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Fantasy Anime League Spring 2014 – The Quest for the Top Half of the Table
Mahouka will Basil Exposition its way to the top It’s back again, the bi-annual competition where stats driven gurus figure out that they don’t have a clue about the taste of a bunch of anime fans. For...
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The 27 Series Winter Anime Recap
The early leader in the Best Girl running. While in the midst of messing around in spreadsheets that are part of The Best Girl Project, I realized that I should probably get around to telling the few...
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The Story of Jesus Tatsuya Part 1 (A Mahouka Tale)
Now when Tatsuya came to the Magic High School in the days of War, behold, there came wise sempais from the Bloom class. Saying where is he is born King of the Weeds? For his Imouto have seen his star...
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The Story of Jesus Tatsuya Part 2 (A Mahouka Tale)
Now the Blooms gathered their forces for war and assembled at the front gate of the school. They pitched camp in front of the senpais, between Mari and Mayumi. Imouto and the Weeds assembled and...
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The Story of Jesus Tatsuya Part 3 (A Mahouka Tale)
It’s time for a bit of Easter filler. So here are some famous lines from the Book of Plot that comprises the universe of The Story of Jesus Tatsuya. There will be more to enjoy next week. Tatsuya said...
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The Story of Tatsuya Marx Part 4 (A Mahouka Tale)
[The following is the preamble to the well-known Mahouka historical document The Course 2 Student Manifesto. Further excerpts will be released in the coming weeks as this defined an ideology that...
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The Ballad of Post-Apocalyptic Tatsuya Part 5 (A Mahouka Tale)
The show’s on fire and there’s no director at the wheel and the characters are all muddied with a thousand lonely expositions and a dark wind blows The government is corrupt and the audience is on so...
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The Chronicles of the Head Creative Writer Part 6 (A Mahouka Tale)
[The following was uttered by the Head Creative Writer for Mahouka. Tired of having to deal with Tatsuya's backstage personality and his ability to assert creative control over the events of the...
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The Rantings of a Production Manager Part 7 (A Mahouka Tale)
[From an anonymous production manager behind Mahouka, in May 2014, following an episode that was poorly received by anime fans on social media.] Fuck those fuckin’ fans who come out on social media...
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To Aru Light Novel no Protagonist Part 8 (A Mahouka Tale)
[Yes, shockingly this is written in my own voice rather than borrowing from obscure speeches and what not. Needless to say Vince Russo speaks truth to power about Mahouka. Now on to the post.] The...
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