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Batman: Caped Crusader 

Batman: Caped Crusader 

Just finished watching the second season of Batman: Caped Crusader, and it’s… fine? It’s serviceable, I was interested enough to watch the whole thing, and yet, there’s something off. In the same way a lot of those DC Animated movies felt off. Because on paper, this should be great. A street-level Batman animated series by guys like Timm, Brubaker, Rucka with Reeves overseeing the production. Like I said, it’s fine. At least there’s something to tide Batman fans over while…

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Bitchin’ About Glitch

Bitchin’ About Glitch

It’s a tale as old as time, where two Australian brothers make some crudely-animated Mario shorts and find enough success to form their very own animation studio. Then a little voice pops up in their head whispering “You should make cartoons that remind people of Reboot. Remember Reboot? Remember Hexadecimal? ‘Member?” and they do so, making so many CGI shows about video game worlds that make viewers like you go “Yeah, I remember Inklings. I remember Gaia Online culture. I…

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Lazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzarus

Lazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzarus

“I didn’t take Lazarus for an anime adaptation of Driving Miss Daisy.” – Mumi on The Weeb Crew So yeah, the new show by acclaimed director Shinichiro Watanabe, about a select team of individuals sent to save the world from a mad scientist’s plot to kill most of humanity using pain-relief medication, wrapped up a few weeks ago. Short review: It sucked. Long review… Okay, good things about Lazarus first: It gave artists I like and respect paid work. I’m…

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The Fall 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: Sponsored by Indignity

The Fall 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: Sponsored by Indignity

Assault Lily Bouquet Yet another battle school anime, except this time the girls call themselves Lilies and the monsters are called the Huge. Huge what? How should I know? Euphemisms aside, I don’t know how some anime fans can do it, talking about shows that tread through the same formula and the same thing season in and season out. I’m sure every anime season is always someone’s first, but for longtime fans, what do they get out of shows like…

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The Summer 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: Amagi Brilliant Park Except It’s Real Life

The Summer 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: Amagi Brilliant Park Except It’s Real Life

Deca-Dence So here’s a show with some nice world-building, a lot of attention to detail, and something grander clearly in the works. But it doesn’t connect together, and I just sat there thinking this show should be blowing me away but isn’t for some reason. Then I realized, “Wait! I’ve seen this first episode before over a decade ago.” Post-apocalyptic world. Main character’s stuck in a bottom of the barrel job. Her mentor is played by Katsuyuki Konishi. Giant monsters…

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The Spring 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: A Film By Quarantarantino

The Spring 2020 Anime Clusterfuck: A Film By Quarantarantino

Arte It’s 16th Century Italy. A noble teenage girl wants to be artist. Her name is Arte because she likes art. But her mother tells her she can’t be an artist because she is woman, and must marry man. Art does not want to marry man, so she runs away and cuts her hair, because Mulan did it in that one movie called Mulan. Art becomes apprentice to a vague approximation of Leonardo Da Vinci. Leo tells her she can’t…

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The Fall 2019 Anime Clusterfuck: Oh Yeah, There Was a Psycho-Pass 2

The Fall 2019 Anime Clusterfuck: Oh Yeah, There Was a Psycho-Pass 2

Azur Lane Azur Lane is a mobage featuring WWII-era ships anthropomorphized into cute girls with giant guns and cannons strapped onto them. “Wait a minute Hellrider, isn’t this just Kancolle?” And you’d be correct, dear reader.  Not one to be outdone by glorious Nippon, China has decided to go in on that gacha money and release their own equivalent to the WWII mobage, but with the added benefit of something resembling actual gameplay. Unlike Kancolle this anime follows an ensemble…

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Young Justice: Out the Door

Young Justice: Out the Door

After years and years of begging for at least one Greg Weisman show to get a third season, the control brains gifted fans with a third season of Young Justice. One with higher stakes, with gore and sex you couldn’t get from a Cartoon Network airing. Seemingly cut plot points are rescued from cancellation hell, and you finally got to see what Darkseid was going to do after that cliffhanger from ages back. I could almost call it miraculous, if…

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Invader Zim: Orphanhood’s End

Invader Zim: Orphanhood’s End

Picture yourself like this: You’re a new kid in school. The unwanted misfit of the class. No one there really likes you because you don’t act like anyone else, while your teacher spouts nonsense meaning nothing to your ears. The rest of the world is happy, naive, and wants you to smile no matter what you feel. Meanwhile, the higher-ups you’re trying to impress? They only see you as a never-ending nuisance. A pest trying too hard to impress and…

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The Summer 2019 Anime Clusterfuck: Your Children Don’t Love You. Watch More Japanese Cartoons.

The Summer 2019 Anime Clusterfuck: Your Children Don’t Love You. Watch More Japanese Cartoons.

Hey, folks. Sorry to distract you from this write-up, but if you want to donate to Kyoto Animation and help them in their time of need, you can give money to their GoFundMe created by Sentai Filmworks, or buy cels from KyoAni’s site. Any amount helps. Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest This is yet another stupid isekai churned out because that’s the ticket every studio wants to buy. The main character is one more self-insert with a ridiculously chuuni…

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