SxF is incapable of giving us anything really nice. When it dishes out something with considerable charm, it comes back with a total clunker.
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it's going to be a very long time before we get any more Mahoutsuka no Yome anime - there just isn't enough material.
Weekly Digest 11/12/2023 – Tokyo Revengers: Tenjiku-hen, Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2
Digest posts make sense sometimes, but Tokyo Revengers and Mahoutsukai no Yome are mismatched in more ways than one.
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Weekly Digest 11/19/2023 – Tokyo Revengers: Tenjiku-hen, Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2
As indifferent as I am about the whole Philomela grimoire storyline, at least stuff is happening with it now.
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That sure wasn't much of an ending. Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 14
We’re spending an awful lot of time with characters I feel like I’m expected to care a lot more about than I do.
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 06
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Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 08
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Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 10
This Hogwarts thing just feels like the series parading around in an ill-fitting borrowed suit. Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 02
Is this series going to be as engaging in the basement of the British Museum as the mystical English countryside? Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 15
Nothing much happened here but it was more interesting than a lot of episodes following that track have been.
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 20
It's patently obvious what makes this series work and what stymies it, and the season has obediently followed that pattern.
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 09
Chise brought back more baggage from that trip than she left with, that's for sure. Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 04
Mahoutsukai is really starting to ratchet it up now. Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 21
Does the fact that I just don't care about any of this make me a bad person?
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 11
"Can I pet your snakes?" is one hell of a pickup line. Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 01
Where's the sorting hat? Read more
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 05
We seem to be zipping back and forth between Hogwarts and "classic" Mahoutsukai almost weekly now. Read more
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Not much has changed with The Ancient Magus' Bride S2, which kicks off its second cour acting as if it had never left.
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 07
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Weekly Digest 10/29/23 – Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2, Tokyo Revengers Tenjiku-hen
This Mahoutsukai arc has the feeling of a series that's inherently unconventional doing its best to try and be conventional.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 12 (Season Finale)
Technically speaking, I guess I should have titled this an "End" post rather than a season finale.
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「ぐりほんさくせんを決行せよ」 (Gurihon Sakusen o Kekkō Seyo) "Carry Out the Griffin Plan" 「〈鋼鉄の淑女フルメタルレディ〉」(Furumetaru Redi) "Fullmetal Lady"「オムライス♡」 (Omuraisu♡) "Omelet Rice♡" Anya and Damian are more alike than each would like to believe.
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Give me more Eden chapters, more Damian and the others, and I'd be a very happy camper where Spy x Family is concerned.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 09
There have been some very weak episodes of SxF, that's for sure. But none, I think, quite so disheartening as the last couple have been.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 05
It’s only natural that at some point Yor would start questioning her life path, so I’m glad to see actual signs of that at last.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 07
At some point somebody has to say "hey, that's an elephant!" or else your suspension of disbelief starts to crumble.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 06
This mission is serious business, and rather plausible as compared to most of the cloak-and-dagger fantasy in Spy x Family.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 02
Spy x Family is never so thoughtful and impactful as when Damian Desmond is in the spotlight. A shame that's not more often.
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Spy x Family Season 2 is more of the same content you saw in the first two cours of the series. It's stale and boring by now.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 08
I found that ep of Spy x Family disturbing on so many levels and none of them, I suspect, the way it was intended.
Spy x Family Season 2 – 03
Going from its best supporting character to its worst from last week to this really accentuates the problem here.
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Spy Family is back, and in more ways than one it feels like it never left (right down to the title card). But that OP is really something.
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Spy x Family – 12 (END)
「 ペンギンパーク」 (Pengin Pāku) "Penguin Park" Intermission for the Forger family.
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Spy x Family Episode 12 was a good episode. But, it didn't feel like the end of a season. It didn't set up Part 2 at all.
Spy x Family Episode 12
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