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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Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine People say I am prone to hyperbole. That I tend to get more angry or enthusiastic about certain things more than others. And you know what? They’re probably right. I do to get a little carried with myself, not so much occasionally but frequently, but let me tell you something. What I’m about to say, I stand by completely, and you can take it to the bank with you… Knights of Sidonia is,…

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Blood Blockade Battlefront I really didn’t know what to expect going into BBB. I’m a huge fan of original creator Yasuhiro Nightow’s previous work, Trigun, both the manga and it’s anime adaption, so although I wasn’t aware he made another manga after it until I looked it up after this anime was announced, I was hoping it would be a similarly entertaining series. Bones is a studio that tends to make well-produced, well-animated series, and I consider a lot 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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Absolute Duo New year, new season, new clusterfuck! Will we see any real improvement over last year’s fresh supply of flaming crap? Sadly no, as Absolute Duo feels like a sloppy seconds of all that went wrong in 2014. Magic school? CHECK. Weird girls from made-up European countries? CHECK. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka? CHEEEEEEECK. Well I sure picked a winner?!? DOUBLE CHECK AND MATE SUCKAH! In Jolly Old England (at least I think it is, Big Ben makes an appearance in the…

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Girl Friend Beta This anime is literally just cute girls doing cute things, even more so than past efforts such as K-On!. While previous works in the same vein at least attempted to employ other aspects such as humor to keep the viewer’s attention, this is not so in Girl Friend Beta. This episode is 24 and a half minutes’ worth of moe schoolgirls either attempting to talk to each other without falling over or adorably doing things that vaguely…

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Ai Tenchi Muyo! Oh how the mighty have fallen… Believe it or not, this is the first honest to god 100% legitimate Tenchi Muyo series* since 2004, and what do we get? A four minute gag anime that’s apparently also a tourism commercial for some town nobody gives a shit about. So uninteresting is Ai Tenchi Muyo that current US rights holder Funimation passed on it when it came to simulcasting. It only took me 15 seconds to see why….

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Black Butler: Book of Circus Did you know that Black Butler is a shounen? I always thought it was a yaoi. Hell, the first 30 seconds of the show feature a man wearing high heels, but I guess that must just be something young boys are into these days. Regardless of its demographic or genre, the first episode of Book of Circus fails to impress on any level outside of its background music. While it’s a foregone conclusion that this…

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Akame ga Kill! So there’s this guy named Tatsumi who has the unfortunate distinction of being a dead ringer for Mikoto from Raildex (right down to the v-neck sweater). He and two others have been sent from their rapidly dwindling village to seek from protection from the corrupt, incompetent Capital of their country. But that’s not important. What is is a gang of super assassins known as Night Raid led by the titular character and her very large sword able…

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