EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll be adding Shadow’s entries later this weekend hopefully. Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water Greetings all and welcome to the umpteenth edition of AR’s Anime Clusterfuck, in which we once again probe the dark crevice that is modern television anime and end up with something long and yucky! And what better way to start this off than yet ANOTHER show about magic schools and bitchy pink haired tsunderes!………goddammit. So after the lamest apocalypse ever, a…

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Classroom Crisis Classroom Crisis seems like its been beamed in from the late 90’s. Specifically the post-Evangelion boom years when everything old seemed new again and a nostalgia fueled retro revival started gaining lots of steam. Said boom of course later petered out and thus we’ve spent the last decade making “anime is saved!/doomed” jokes because of the vicious cycle the industry has been engulfed in. But back in those days, we’d take a candy colored exercise in shonen silliness…

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Actually, I Am… Ok, first things first. What the hell is with the title of this show? I know this is supposed to be a literal translation of the Japanese title but I thought this was supposed to be called “My Monster Secret” not “Actually, I Am…” . That’s the name of the original manga right? Goddammit Sentai, next time chose the title that DOESN’T SOUND STUPID outside of the original nihongo. Well now that that rant is out of…

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This season has been about as bypolar as they come, fluctuating from dizzying highs (Rolling Girls, Yatterman Night, and Death Parade) to soul crushing lows (World Break, Fafnir, Absolute Duo, Testament of Sister New Devil, ETC ETC ETC) with very little in between.  Happily though we’re all done with this season and won’t have to do another Clusterfuck article for another three months right? WRONG! Debuting three weeks late is ISUCA, a show based off a manga nobody cares about…

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