Ga-rei-zero, episode 4

by RP December 27, 2008
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Four episodes in, GRZ finally gets a proper OP, it’s pretty solid, nothing outstanding, but the upbeat song fits well, and the opening scenes do a good job for pumping you up for what’s to follow. For a twelve episode season, they’ve made some interesting decisions. Obviously, the most obvious being introducing and demolishing the [...]

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Ga-rei-zero, episode 3 – extended flashback time

by RP December 26, 2008
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So after the chaotic first two episodes of GRZ in which Yomi established herself as a bad-ass, probably non-human killing machine, with an intense dislike of being called “sister,” this episode (and future episodes) takes a long step back in time to provide us some background on Yomi and Kagura’s relationship.

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Merry Christmas!

by RP December 25, 2008
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Happy holidays to all! Check out Otakudan.com for an awesome, mostly SFW (not that you’d be working) Christmas day gallery (i’m partial to the nia and kagamin portraits) and keikakudoori for some chaos head goodies.

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Kannagi, episode 12 – the penultimate melodrama

by RP December 23, 2008
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Kannagi took a very sharp dramatic turn halfway through last episode, and they pick up where they left off, only increasing the melodrama this episode. Whereas last episode, I thought the dramatic shift was awkward, this episode, I thought the comedic bits were actually a bit clumsily dispersed.

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Luminous Arc 2 – the review

by RP December 22, 2008
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So I mentioned before that I only decided to buy this game because Atlus was running a holiday promo that offered a free art book and music CD with the game. The first game was easy enough and interesting enough to convince me to play the second game (I mean, I’d bought it, so why [...]

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Kannagi, episode 11 – Nagi gets serious

by RP December 16, 2008
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Episode 11 of Kannagi takes a sudden turn towards the dark and serious. I actually thought the transition was sort of abrupt and thus felt a bit out of place, but it’s good to see them go back and start moving the plot forward again.

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Back in time again – Ga-rei-zero, episode 2

by RP December 12, 2008
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Like all of my episodic commentaries, I don’t plan on summarizing the show (go watch them!) and rather am focusing on more of what pops in my head as the show plays. So apologies for some random jumping. Anyway, if you recall, all of our previous heroes were massacred at the end of episode 1. [...]

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Lucky- I mean, Kannagi, episode 10

by RP December 8, 2008
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The Karaoke ep. It’s eponymous. Like the White album. This week on Lucky Star, Konata mixes it up by bringing some guys into the mix. This was also the scene of the battle 0.5 between Zange and Tsugumi, which was the best part of the episode IMO. For some reason, this was the first ep [...]

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Going back in time – Ga-rei-Zero, episode 1

by RP December 6, 2008
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Index was boring me, so I decided to not write about it. There’s only so many times I can say the same thing. Too slow, too much talk, too boring. So I thought I’d pick up a different show to write about. One I picked up on a whim, but have been pleasantly surprised by. [...]

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Kannagi, episode 9

by RP November 30, 2008
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“It’s a Sony!”

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