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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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“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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Infinite Stratos — Infinitely Awful Part 2

Infinite Stratos — Infinitely Awful Part 2

Episode 2: Class-Representative Selection Match For the record, I’m not actually expecting this show to be… well, ‘ya know, good, at any point during the course of its 12-episode run. Going into a series that I was already told beforehand would suck, I’m naturally expecting the worst of the worst at the turn of every frame. That said, I am, however, expecting the 11 remaining episodes to not be as dreadfully boring as the first. After all, this is supposed…

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Warning: Contains Problem Solverz

Warning: Contains Problem Solverz

Heh, kind of difficult to be objective about something like Problem Solverz, since you’ve got a 95/5 split for a fandom…and what a small, isolated fandom they are. Anyway…Problem Solverz started airing on Cartoon Network earlier this year, coming off the heels and in the heat of the big reform they’ve been making over the past few years. Folks had just started migrating back to CN to partake of its new smashing successes (namely, the bizarre and imaginative Adventure Time…

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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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Avaitor Picks the Top 11 Nicktoon Episodes – Or So He Thinks

Avaitor Picks the Top 11 Nicktoon Episodes – Or So He Thinks

Last Thursday, the Nicktoons turned 20. We had a plan to celebrate this and everything, but our series seemed to have fell through. But the interest was still there, and after watching the Nostalgia Critic’s Top 11 B:TAS Episodes list, I decided to take a crack at something different myself. I picked eleven memorable episodes from eleven memorable Nicktoons and put them up in this list. There’s no ranking here, and each show is put here in broadcast order. I…

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Ludovico Trials: Infinite Stratos — Infinitely Awful

Ludovico Trials: Infinite Stratos — Infinitely Awful

Episode 1 – All my Classmates are Female Believe it or not, we actually kick things off on a bit of a flying start. Literally. Cut to scenic, sunset-splashed ocean setting, where several peeps in airborne robot suits (a guy, buncha girls, and some unidentifiable person hiding behind a tinted visor) are duking it out in what appears to be the BATTLE OF THE CENTURY. Or something. I’m given the vibe that visor-guy appears to be the antagonist, while the…

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A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 7

A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 7

Again, sorry for the delay, and this time, I only have two entries to share. But first, go read. Mickey’s Amateurs (1937) Eh, more or less a colorized remake of “Orphan’s Benefit”. Not much to say here. Some different events, same scenario. Mickey Plays Papa (1934) Now this one is a little more fun. It stars off with Mickey reading Pluto a spooky bedtime story (because who doesn’t do that with their dogs, right?), when a curious stranger comes to…

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