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Yurikuma Arashi Episodes 1-3: Eat-or-Fuck Kingdom

Yurikuma Arashi Episodes 1-3: Eat-or-Fuck Kingdom

Love Bullet Yurikuma Arashi (literally “Girls-lovebear Storm”) is perhaps the ultimate Kunihiko Ikuhara experience. Everything he has made in the last 20 years has been building up to this. Sailor Moon’s monster-of-the-week format; Utena’s abstract art and delicate cathedral like aesthetics (complete with spiral staircases); Penguindrum’s pursuit of survival against the threat of utter annihilation; it’s all here, and in ridiculously OTT quantities. Because of this, its almost a borderline self-parody of Ikuni works since we’ve come to expect all…

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The Bizarre Adventures of Eggy Azalea & Mr. Freeze – Serial Experiments Slaine

The Bizarre Adventures of Eggy Azalea & Mr. Freeze – Serial Experiments Slaine

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Aldnoah.Zero (wait for it) gets worse. This is not a surprise in the slightest. The time for praise has passed, the era of criticism is upon us. Buckle up. Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season is littered with plot-holes from here-on out, as compared to the little plot-hole rips the 1st season tried so very hard to ignore. One scene from the 1st season of Aldnoah.Zero completely contradicts a scene from this episode – the…

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The Bizarre Adventures of Eggy Azalea & Mr. Freeze – Down the Slaine Drain

The Bizarre Adventures of Eggy Azalea & Mr. Freeze – Down the Slaine Drain

There was once a time where I liked and appreciated Aldnoah.Zero. That time has since passed, and new feelings have emerged to replace this, such as deep self-loathing, extreme embarrassment and undeniable shame. With the 1st season’s ending, the show ended on a climatic and somewhat unexpected note – Slaine murdering Inaho after Saazbaum murdered Asseylum. However, the hilarious nature of that ending has since been intensified with this latest episode of ‘Katsuhiko Takayama should stick to writing shota hentai’,…

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Cross Ange Episode 13 – Libretto du Senketsu

Cross Ange Episode 13 – Libretto du Senketsu

Ohai, Cross Ange. Welcome back— OHMYGOD! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS FAAAACE!? Before I even get to the story elements I have to say this episode was all kinds of atrocious in the animation department. Cross Ange ain’t the most spectacular looking broad, but yegads they turned Embryo into Bishounen Slenderman in that shot! Then we also factor in weird silhouettes that come out of nowhere (was some DRAGON person hiding in the resort house?), and Norma who when shot…

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Legend of Korra Series Finale: Hooray! Makorra is Dead!

Legend of Korra Series Finale: Hooray! Makorra is Dead!

“I guess, I see a lot of myself in you.” – Korra So let’s start with that quote. On the plus side, it’s refreshing for the Avatar to actually talk someone down from violence instead of beat them up until they accept peace. In a sense, it resolves the Dark Korra arc that’s been haunting the season by showing Korra concoct an alternate solution to what her shadow’s been stopping her from doing. People complained that this was going on…

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Cross Ange Episode 12 – Putting the ‘Onsen’ in ‘Nonsense’

Cross Ange Episode 12 – Putting the ‘Onsen’ in ‘Nonsense’

After that rather mind… something or whatever (unsure if it is right to call it ‘mind-blowing’) last episode, we return to a damaged Arzenal this week. Instead of dealing with what the hell happened with DRAGON Princess, Ange makes Commander Jill live up to her promise in Episode 10 to spill the beans on the story of Arzenal. Unsurprisingly she does that in a hot springs, but surprisingly it’s pretty comprehensive. In essence it’s the dog and pony show of…

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Cross Ange Episode 11 – Whoremonic Convergence

Cross Ange Episode 11 – Whoremonic Convergence

Initially only present in the OP and ED, we finally see that DRAGON Princess for the first time. She of course is some wunderkind with not only a Paramail but also in vocals that control DRAGONs and fire twin-shoulder death spirals powerful enough to destroy roughly half of Arzenal. If that’s not enough, Ange unlocks the Vilkiss’s power by singing as well. Then they cancel each other out and then that scene above, with the background montage spanning multiple storylines…

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Legend of Korra Episode 11: The Other Kind of Bender

Legend of Korra Episode 11: The Other Kind of Bender

Okay, I get it. Kuvira’s forming the Earth Reich. She’s making Nazi Dirtmany, with her own Groundstapo and Earthmacht. The only way to dig the point deeper would be for her to make up her own language that sounds suspiciously like German, or to name the last episode “Groundfall”. Not an episode goes by where some character doesn’t talk about evil Kuvira is. I have deep pity for anyone who takes a shot every time Kuvira’s villainy is mentioned or…

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Cross Ange Episode 10 – Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Norma

Cross Ange Episode 10 – Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Norma

What an incredibly brisk episode this was. We start with a public event of the torture and execution for Ange which quickly is quelled. Ange and Momoka are rescued by Not-Kira, the former gets disciplined plus detained for a week as punishment, and fully reconciles with Hilda (apparently brought back right after her dirt road beatdown last episode) as they bond over Norma things. Things like say… someday getting back at the world for being so stupid with their rabid…

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Legend of Korra Episode 10: Premature Burst

Legend of Korra Episode 10: Premature Burst

So besides saving Zhu Li, what was the point of Bolin being in this episode? He didn’t really prove his worth or show off any lavabending moves. Instead, he’s just the comic relief in a recon mission. And while that would be just dandy in the first season, but we already had over 40 episodes to deal with that. I don’t think the writers know what to do with Bolin anymore. They keep throwing him around as a failed movie…

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