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Late to the party: Nanoha

Report from the halfway point Somehow, amidst all the fall anime I’ve started (some of it’s gonna get dropped like a shitty potato) and extra blog work I’ve taken on, I found time to watch some more cartoons. The time I’m able to watch anime comes in bursts, so I tend to take full advantage [...]

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Random Sampling: Shugo Chara!

Let’s get girly The last time I random-sampled something, it was Komodo No Jikan, which scarred me for a while, so it took some time for me to close my eyes and point my finger and the virtual phone book of anime again. But here’s what I got: Series: Shugo Chara! Genre: Magical Girl? Episode: [...]

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H2O ~ Footprints in the Sand Ep. 8

Otoha Really? You’re really going to do this to us? I only started watching H2O in earnest because I was couch-bound with the flu and had nothing else to watch (yes, I know, Shigufumi, but hindsight is 20/20), and it hasn’t really struck me since. Like I said, I don’t hate it. I just haven’t [...]

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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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This Ugly Yet Beautiful World

Enjoy this terrible yet awful dub Before I get too far, I should preface this by saying that I love Gainax to death. I’m supposed to though, and so is everyone else. They’re a “for the people by the people” kind of company, a collection of otakus who got together to make better giant robots [...]

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