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Ping Pong & Other Sports-related Anime, Week 5: Winning at all costs
This week, Ping Pong aims for the heartstrings. Ping Pong THE ANIMATION Ep. 5 • After a heaping of humble pie, Kong decides to stay in Japan to do what he was actually brought over to do in the first...
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Sidonia no Kishi Ep. 5: Can love bloom in the deep of space?
Only if you drink her goddamn piss. Episode Summary Basically, Nagate and Shizuka bond as they are helplessly adrift in our hero’s fuel-less Gardes. Notes • Man, the start of this week’s episode...
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Mushishi Zoku Shou Ep. 6: Possession
Gardener: “We may not be right in the head. For 300 years, our family has loved a woman who is like a plant.” I find this week’s episode to be one of Mushishi‘s more straightforward ones. As you can...
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Ep. 6: Pick yourself up by your bootstraps!
Haven’t you heard? If you’re not lucky enough to be privileged in this society, you’re just a lazy bum with neither talent nor aptitude! Episode Summary The terrorists are after some classified...
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Captain Earth Ep. 6: Collusion
Smooth as always. Episode Summary Kube thinks Amara and Moco are assisting him and Macbeth Enterprises, but it’s clear that our villains aim to betray the CEO. Elsewhere, we explore Hana’s origins....
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Brynhildr in the Darkness Ep. 6: Dumb and Dumber
Ah, another episode of this complex anime and its brilliant characters. Episode Summary Despite the girls’ best efforts to get themselves killed, Ryota hatches a plan that saves the day. Afterwards,...
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Isshuukan Friends Ep. 6: Mental blockage
Kaori’s buddies have been doing poorly in math, so it’s up to her to help them pass the make-up test. But, ah, where might they study? After all, she gets so bloody worked up at the thought of her...
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Spring 2014 Harem Hill, Week 6: Trashing m’lady’s confidence
Just bland harem lead things. Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara Ep. 6 • Alright, let’s tune into yet another episode of stupid fun in Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara, except, well, it’s not really fun. Wait,...
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M3 – Sono Kuroki Hagane Ep. 4: The love triangle intensifies
I wonder who Akashi is going to pick. Episode Summary The team undergoes a training exercise on a tropical island in the South Seas. In reality, the evil scientist guy merely hopes to collect more...
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Everything Else, Spring ’14, Week 6: Love rivals
Whoops, pruning a bunch of shows again. This doesn’t mean I won’t cover these shows in the future, but ah… I just don’t feel like watching them right now. While I’m not as burnt out as I was last...
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Black Bullet Ep. 6: Only girls allowed in Rentaro’s fan club
Oh man, Rentaro basically goes from one girl to the next in this week’s episode. What’s with the peculiar dearth of men in this anime anyway? First, Rentaro apparently has the time and money to feed...
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No Game, No Life Ep. 6: Sexy word play
Sora erases both the mantle and the crust first, right? Then shouldn’t they have started plunging into the core as soon as he had done so? Maybe I’m missing something here… Oh well, it’s just a...
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Hitsugi no Chaika Ep. 6: Chaika is so unnecessary!
Guys, can’t we all just get along? Episode Summary It takes two attempts at an exchange before the Chaikas are returned to their rightful place, but it’s not as though our two sides have been friends...
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Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin Ep. 6: The uninspired hot springs episode
God, I hate Tensai’s character. People have asked me why I dislike Naoto from Persona 4. It’s pretty simple, really: I just don’t like it when a character feels the need to explain it all to the...
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Ping Pong Ep. 6: Excess
Where are the other two shows? Like I’ve said on Twitter, I broke my glasses, so I have a hard time seeing until I can replace them. Nah, it wasn’t an accident or anything. Those frames were merely...
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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Ep. 7: Barf
The episode kicks off with Tatsuya leading his sister and some friends on a raid of a terrorist base. Despite the fact that their lives are on the line, it’s amazing to see how calm and collected...
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Sidonia no Kishi Ep. 6: Death comes fast
Oh good, the cold opening reminds us that Nagate had to drink Shizuka’s piss in order to survive. Boy, and I had forgotten it and everything! Silly me. Anyway, word of the pair’s rescue begins to...
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Captain Earth Ep. 7: Juicy melons save the day
How risqué. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. You always know an extended action scene is coming when the show suddenly begins to skimp on the budget elsewhere. As such, the first half of the...
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Persona 3: Spring of Birth
It’s a trap to adapt silent protagonists. Well, in my opinion, anyways. After all, when you play the game, you assume the role of the silent protagonist. You provide the voice. You guide the actions....
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Ping Pong Ep. 8: Let’s dance
Let’s take a closer look at the episode through a few interesting pieces of dialogue. Obaba: “I had to work hard to pick up your slack too.” A little later, Obaba bitterly implies that Butterfly Joe...
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