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Clannad: Episode 19

New Life [Don't know your Tomoya from your Tomoyo? Clannad Info page to the rescue.] After having to wait an extra week after last episode’s bulldozer-of-bodies, I was set up for disappointment. But honestly, at this phase of the show there should be no wasted minutes, and thankfully that wasn’t the case. Recap: Okazaki’s final [...]

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True Tears, Episode 8

A Town Where It Doesn’t Snow [If you're not up to speed, check out the new True Tears info page] Well. I realized as I sat down to watch this that I was super dooper excited. True Tears really is my favorite show right now, and you can bet I’m not throwing out that Trapper [...]

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Shigofumi, Episode 6

Scream I often justify my habit by saying that I love a good serial: I can even call my favorite live-action American show, Lost, a pretty good time for all its faults. But in truth, I like a good anthology as well. It’s just regular-episode television that bores me. Whether comedy or drama, sticking the [...]

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School Days (Review)

There will be blood. One day, people will be able to write about School Days on the internet or wherever without having to address its infamy. That day won’t be until it reaches these North American shores, gets dubbed, and is viewed by people who have no connection to the Internet anime culture whatsoever (the [...]

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Clannad: Episode 17

A Room Without Anyone, aka Trapped In The Closet part 29 They say these “slice of life” shows aren’t really about anything. Sweet animated Christ, if only that were true. In the case of these Key shows, they’re about the inherent pain that is life. And about foisting that pain upon hapless viewers. Sometimes it’s [...]

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Shakugan No Shana Second Episode 16

Everlasting Love In spite of SNS‘s often predictable storylines, or the way it tends to pile on incomprehensible lingo and convoluted lists of characters to make things artificially less clichéd, I keep giving the show credit — mostly for its believable characters and their realistic choices given the situations in which they’re placed. But the [...]

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