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A challenger appears! And steals your drawers!

Ah, springtime. When youth gets all crazy and hormonal and foists its most “ecchi” visions into your unwitting eyes holes like some kind of televisual skullfucking. Except it’s fall, and anime is made by dirty old men. Case in point, Sora No Otoshimono, which is (choose one): One of the many high caliber titles available [...]

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Final(?) spring pickup: Hatsukoi Limited

Not sure what made me think Hatsukoi Limited would be a good idea to watch. Maybe it was the constant nagging mental failure upon seeing its name that made me think of Futakoi Alternative. Anyway, seeing as how we’re not getting another Futakoi Alternative, I grabbed a couple episodes of Hatsukoi (“First Love”) Limited. I [...]

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Revisiting To Love-Ru

We are often give up! Ah, summer. It’s a very special time in a boys’ life, that magical time when breasts are school is out and spring anime shows begin to show up in DVD editions. Some are there just because they’re popular shows, some entice buyers based on the fact that their TV counterparts [...]

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Ecchi Deathmatch ’08, round 1

FIGHT! In the near corner, animated by Xebec, from the Animal Spirits team, here’s the furry favorite, KANOKON! In the far corner, animated by…. Xebec? Eh? From the Space Girl team, it’s Tenchi TO LOVE-RU aka Trouble! In last week’s preliminaries, Kanokon showed a distinct advantage with its willingness to “go there,” pummeling the competition [...]

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Kanokon (Preview)

The cruelest month begins April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire Et cetera, et cetera. TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land gives us a dark and surreal glimpse into a post-apocalyptic nightmare world. But can Eliot’s harrowing vision compare with what I have seen this particular [...]

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