Legend of Korra Episode 3: South Kiosk Cuisine

Legend of Korra Episode 3: South Kiosk Cuisine

So this week gives us yelling. Kya calls out Tenzin. Mako calls out Bolin. The twins reveal why expressing positive emotions can be a bad thing. On top of that, the Korra family’s inability to communicate properly has led to a whole mess of misunderstandings between everyone. Also, Northern and Southern Water Tribes are now at odds with each other. With the Northerners stepping on the South’s turf like it’s their neighborhood. And you can’t step on someone else’s territory…

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Crowds-Sourcing XI: Recapitulation

Crowds-Sourcing XI: Recapitulation

Well here we are with the penultimate episode of Gatchaman Crowds. Boy am I excited after last week! Hope it gets off to a great start with…. nothing. No cold opening this week huh? Maybe they don’t want to break up the action this week? Or maybe they want to show off the changes they made to the op (which are far more significant than usual)? Well anyway… lets get this show on the road with… narration over footage from…

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Fall Anime 2013 Clusterfuck, Part 0: Diabolik Lovers

Fall Anime 2013 Clusterfuck, Part 0: Diabolik Lovers

This show aired early for some reason. And that means I have to write about it early. I’ve invented a new drink. One part lemon juice, two parts Budweiser, and one part Robitussin (the kids’ cough syrup shit), topped off with some bleach for a little extra kick; Clorox, usually. I call it the White Devil. I mostly ingest White Devils only before heading down to the corner of 6th and Stetson to work the dirty midnight streets — a…

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Legend of Korra Episodes 1 and 2: Makorra on Ice

Legend of Korra Episodes 1 and 2: Makorra on Ice

Well over a year after a season finale that satisfied no one, Korra’s back. Can the show do better than Amon’s reveal? Will Mako be more than a bit of a douche? Hopefully and probably not. Unlike Young Justice, the gap between seasons doesn’t give us a load of already-developed plot lines. Asami still has trouble reconstructing Future Industries. Korra’s still training. Bolin is a pro-bending captain for some rookies. And Mako is still a douche, but he’s now a…

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Crowds-Sourcing (GALA)X: No More Mr. Nice Gatchaman

Crowds-Sourcing (GALA)X: No More Mr. Nice Gatchaman

So yeah since the last edition of Crowds-Sourcing, my computer’s hard drive died a slow painful death so I’m without the ability to provide you with my usual 1080 screenshots of this week’s episode at the moment. I should have it fixed by next week, in which case I may update this week’s installment (EDIT… and done!). In fact I’m actually quite surprised to be writing this right now since I announced earlier that Crowds-Sourcing X would be delayed and…

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Crowds-Sourcing IX: Wings of 6chan

Crowds-Sourcing IX: Wings of 6chan

Welcome back to the first post-license edition of Crowds-Sourcing, where Sentai Filmworks decides that they can still spend some money on that gun they shot themselves in the foot over Flowers of Evil with! Last time… Rui got fucked over by Katze and Gatchaman wasted all their time at a kindergarten! What goofy misadventures will our team of neon striped Super Sentamen Raidas get into this week?! Gatchaman (more precisely Hajime) takes in and heals Rui at their dorm. The…

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Kick-Heart: A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted

Kick-Heart: A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted

Art anime. Love it or hate it, its here to stay. For every mainstream populist director like Goro Taniguchi or Mamoru Hosoda; there’s an Akiyuki Shinbo, Kenji Nakamura, or Makoto Shinkai making plotless, often pointless, tripe hidden under some nifty, if rather infrequent, animation (then again… Shinkai’s stuff is barely animated isn’t it?). Occasionally you get a genius like Satoshi Kon who was able to stand in both fields at once, but he’s dead now so the world is one…

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Crowds-Sourcing VIII: Cheap PR Stunt

Crowds-Sourcing VIII: Cheap PR Stunt

Wow… last week’s episode was pretty good! Can this week keep up the momentum?!? (spoilers: nope) We begin with everybody but OD in the dumps. Paiman’s reduced to binge drinking, Jou (who has recovered from his masive injuries from last week) hates himself more than normal, and Utsutsu has a sunny disposition (wait what?). Naturally Dr. Hajime has a perscription for this crippling predicament… do a public relations reveal at a nearby preschool! …god I hate this show. So anyway…

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Crowds-Sourcing VII: “Whip it Good”

Crowds-Sourcing VII: “Whip it Good”

Oh boy! Gatchaman Crowds time again! How low can we go this week?!? THIRTY MINUTES LATER… Who is the man who made this episode and what have you done with my usual hipster hack Kenji Nakamura?!?!!? Following his rather lame attempt at getting Gatchaman to drop the whole Gatchaman thing, Rui decides its time to fight fire with fire and eliminate his “benefactor”/torturer Katze using the CROWDS. That goes about as well as the Hindenberg disaster as Berg Katze annihilates…

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Oreimo: The O-Reckoning

Oreimo: The O-Reckoning

At last, we’ve come to the end of the road. Throughout these past three years, the show has been quite an interesting journey. And by interesting, I mean a huge slog where I wish Kirino was a real person just so I could have the chance to throw rocks at her. When Oreimo was first introduced, I thought it would be a satire on otaku and how they’re obsession leads them into futility. Unfortunately, this show is not watamote. Instead,…

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