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The real test of honor isn’t how you die. It’s how you live. (War World)

The real test of honor isn’t how you die. It’s how you live. (War World)

A distressingly consistent theme within these episodes is that Superman’s been pretty useless. More often than not, his only purpose is to be a meat shield so the villain will be shown to be threatening enough for the other heroes. While it proves effective in trying to show that characters like Hawkgirl are just as useful as everyone else, it ends up devaluing Superman and turns him into the Krillin of the group. As a result, the show ends up…

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Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad In The Nads Part 10

Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad In The Nads Part 10

Oh crap, the robot’s back. And this time, it’s in a field, since that’s where robots usually roam at before getting poached by local resistance fighters. I can understand a robot having stiff dialogue, but hear what the girl says. “Wait a minute, to think that something is strange means, you have knowledge of that which is not strange.” She speaks the dialogue that people use to be deep, when in actuality, they’re just being pretentious in their tedium. Like…

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“She Called Me Her Little Sun and Stars” (Paradise Lost)

“She Called Me Her Little Sun and Stars” (Paradise Lost)

Rather bold to name your episode after John Milton’s classic, huh? As such, it provides an interesting contrast between portrayals of the underworld. Where the epic poem shows Satan as a sympathetic being raging against an evil creator, this episode’s interpretation of Hades is more in line with Rita Repulsa in terms of character depth. There lies a brief moment of empathy for what seems to be genuine love for Hippolyta, but little else to make him more than yet…

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And Furthermore… (In Blackest Night)

And Furthermore… (In Blackest Night)

For this episode, we get a look at the Green Lantern John Stewart. Back when this show was in its production stages, there was controversy over choosing John as a main character for the show, the two main reasons being that it felt like token casting for some people, as well as the fact that there has already been a Green Lantern in the DCAU, namely Kyle Rayner. So of course, the writers had to quickly prove that he could…

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Do you have any idea how corny that sounds? (Secret Origins)

Do you have any idea how corny that sounds? (Secret Origins)

During Earth’s first contact with Mars, astronauts accidentally awaken the White Martians, who slowly breach the defenses of humanity and prepare for their invasion. When this conquest begins, Batman and Superman prove unable to save the world alone and must look for outside help. So with that, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl, and the last original Martian J’onn J’onzz join alongside them to form the Justice League and help Earth face off against oblivion. When watching previous crossovers such…

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Kicking Clannad In the Nads (Part 9)

Kicking Clannad In the Nads (Part 9)

Hey, long time no trial. At nighttime, Tomoya, Nagisa, and Fuko decide to do what any sane teenager would do, i.e. break into school. Tomoya plays the straight man and questions this idea, but Nagisa trusts this path given how her father still remembers Fuko after hearing her name. Since really, how hard can it be to forget this annoying green-haired midget? I know I unfortunately haven’t. After a few minutes of sitting around while the opening plays, Fuko tears…

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Fall 2011 Anime Clusterfuck – “Do it feel like a crown on yo head… do it?”

Fall 2011 Anime Clusterfuck – “Do it feel like a crown on yo head… do it?”

Working’!! The crew of Wagnaria are back, with pedophilic-to-the-bone Takanashi, misandrist bitch Inami, frothing-bucket-of-abhorrent-midget-jokes Poplar, and some other bastards that I couldn’t give less of a fuck enough to even name them. The plot for this season is… uh; they just hang around and do anything that would get an actual restaurant quarantined or slapped with a cornucopia of lawsuits. The only things that happen involve Takanashi getting pissed over a roach dying, and Poplar trying to grow a pair…

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To Have Learned and Lost From the Rabbit and His Rhapsodies

To Have Learned and Lost From the Rabbit and His Rhapsodies

You know those teenagers on the internet who constantly boast about how awesome their lives were as a kid, how grade school and Saturday mornings were their milk and honey? I’m not one of them. My childhood sucked. And yet, whenever my dad hit me just for playing with my Megazords a little too much, or those times when my caretaker at daycare told me I was worthless for not knowing the alphabet in the right order, there was always…

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Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad in the Nads (Part 8)

Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad in the Nads (Part 8)

Episode 8: The Cohesion that Vanishes Into the Twilight After being told by Sunohara that more and more people are forgetting Fuko, Tomoya is having an introvert moment before Nagisa and Fuko snap him out of it by confirming that the wedding will be next Sunday. So yay, everything’s happy for almost five seconds. We proceed to get more footage of Fuko trying to hand out starfish. However, people are just ignoring this little green girl and her promise of…

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Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad in the Nads (Part 7)

Ludovico Trials: Kicking Clannad in the Nads (Part 7)

Yeah… it’s one of those episodes. Episode 7: Star-Shaped Plot Tumors Previously on Clannad, Tomoya and Nagisa find out that Ms. Ibuki can neither see nor hear Fuko. The show doesn’t really explain why, so it just expects us to roll with it and bawl at how they can’t share their true feelings with each other now. Yeah, call me a soulless monster for not feeling it, but I need logic before I can get the slightest bit involved in…

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