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Episodic Review: Sword Art Online 02

Episodic Review: Sword Art Online 02

Obscure sicknesses aside, I’m back… hopefully with a more positive outlook on the series. You know the one incredibly amiable guy in school that gets along with everyone and seems too perfect to be an actual human so you spend your downtime from secretly worshipping him to find evidence to out him as a robot designed to observe out species? Yeah, blue-haired guy is the SAO-equivalent. I’m betting his avatar pre-plot-twist was his exact face… either that or an incredibly…

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Episodic Review: Sword Art Online 01

Episodic Review: Sword Art Online 01

For the record, I initially did have some inklings of what could be considered interest in this show. Sadly that interest lasted for two episodes before I dropped it from my to-watch list this anime season. So why am I coming back to it? Well, I’d say it’s because it’s like one of those abusive relationships where I keep coming back to it no matter how badly it treats me, but the answer’s far less interesting. Curse you, AniRev staff…

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End of Season Review: Ano Natsu de Matteru

End of Season Review: Ano Natsu de Matteru

Late last year, I was getting caught up on one of the Summer’s better anime titles: We Still Don’t Know the Name of the Flower we Saw that Day (or Ano Hana if you like fake Japanese shorthand). At 11 episodes total, I was able to plow through the episodes in less than a week. The series was about a group of estranged friends trying to get over their differences after the ghost of one of their other childhood friends…

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“Don’t you think this world is better than you expected?”: Usagi Drop Series Review

“Don’t you think this world is better than you expected?”: Usagi Drop Series Review

When people say “anime,” the types of shows that come tomind are usually something including robots, people punching each other, and/orgirls in sailor suits. Usagi Drop,while not the best anime out there definitely stood its ground in a time when moe is dominating the market. Enter Daikichi—he’s not exactly a bum, but he’s not exactlythe picture of perfection either. He’s single and in his thirties, holding up areasonably good job, and he’s just fine with that. You’d expect that lastsentence…

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State of the Channel: Cartoon Network

State of the Channel: Cartoon Network

I’m not gonna lie and say that I remember the exact date that Toonami went off the air in America. On the contrary, it’s all a blur to me—I remember I was in high school, and I remember finding out somehow that that night would be Toonami’s last airing (Pacific timer, so I probably found out from someone online, or a commercial, or something) and not really feeling that much more past that. In general, I watched the action block…

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Ludovico Trials: X-Men Anime (2/12)

Ludovico Trials: X-Men Anime (2/12)

Hokay, episode two… you can do this. So the episode starts with the baddies’ lair—one with some kind of mechanical implants, while the other slightly more human (though still rather Afro Samurai-esque in design). Back with the X-Men, the gang is riding in the blackbird, while Beast explains to the rest his concept of having created a portable Cerebro. Wait… portable… cerebro. Alright, so you’re telling me that the mutant-locating device that requires not just a capable psychic but also…

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Ludovico Trials: X-Men Anime (1/12)

Ludovico Trials: X-Men Anime (1/12)

When it was announced that Madhouse and Marvel were buddying up to make a line of Marvel anime, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one filled with fanboy glee. In particular, I was pumped about the Iron Man and X-Men anime. One episode into the series, however, and I was automatically turned off by Iron Man. Though I guess considering the other possibility of a show showing promise only to fail later in the game, Iron Man came out on…

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Nicktoons Home Release Availability

Nicktoons Home Release Availability

It’s no secret that Nickelodeon isn’t exactly the most consistent when it comes to their shows’ releases. And with there being more options than ever for just exactly how one procures such series, it’s about time someone actually took the time to keep track of just exactly what series are available and how. This entry will be focusing primarily on the first 24 Nicktoons and their availability in America through 3 sources: DVDs, amazon.com / iTunes downloads (the two essentially…

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MAD the Animated Show: First Impressions

MAD the Animated Show: First Impressions

I remember a time back when MAD magazine was pretty much everywhere. Back when magazines were hip and new, MAD seemed to be in the forefront of things, giving a less serious opinion on recent pop culture. From the handful of issues I leafed through, its tone alone was very tongue-in-cheek in that it was a compilation of short written works as well as comics and the like all compiled for the sake of mocking what we as a society…

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Bakemonogatari: Face, Limb and Torso Value

Bakemonogatari: Face, Limb and Torso Value

I’ve never really gotten that into the harem subgenre of anime, since honestly, I’ve never been that interested in it. If anything, I thought it to be one of the least original genre out there. I mean, you’ve got you’re one male lead and he’s continually surrounded by no one else but females for no apparent reason. I mean at least with an action series or a thriller, there’s some kind of logic behind everything. For a harem series, just…

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