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Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 4
Robotic exposition about robots this way.
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 3
Some investigations don’t end so easily.
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 5
A new arc starts now Inspector loses status Of course it won’t stick
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episodes 1 & 2
Your Forma presents as a cyberpunk mystery/thriller, with interesting comparisons to two other cyberpunk mystery/thriller anime outings. Like ID:Invaded, the show features technology that allows in…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 6
All things considered, this show can be kind of charming. True, just about anybody who’s engaged with any sort of media has seen this plot a million times…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 6
We spend most of this episode with Spearhead, oddly enough including an extended flashback scene to when the formation was first formed, having a fun cookout together. One…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 6
Main character syndrome is a… well, it rhymes with witch, dontcha know?
Seasonal Selection – Tasokare Hotel Episode 6
Atori’s dark gifted kid past revealed.
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 6
This is, believe it or not, a lower-key episode. Yeah, in this show. Well, at least it’s one for the most part. The meat of the episode sees…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 6
Everybody gets punched day.
Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 6
The long-awaited debut of Goro’s Idol, Iyo, appears to be slightly posthumous.
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 6
What ho, time travel! A history is explained And then it happens. We do at least see how Kasane got to the end of the last episode here:…
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 6
Haiku summation: Animation gets better, The writing gets worse. Live reaction audio and details after the cut. So, this time we start with Skeletor creating his spheres of…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 6
Let’s get everyone trapped in a box while they go insane! This episode sees Denji and pals (and I use the term ‘pals’ in the loosest of senses)…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 6
Attack on That Big Guy. So, Mr. Hungry Giant turns out to be a more formidable foe than the tree-topping giants of the island. Gabimaru, who intercedes quickly…
Your Forma
Plot: In an alternate 2023, the Your Forma, a miraculous “smart thread” technology initially developed to treat a massive outbreak of viral encephalitis, has become an integral part…
Your Forma – Episode 1
It's clearly cooking with all the usual ingredients of a cyberpunk police procedural.
Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 6
Again we have two cases this week, and no progression on the teased meta-plot. Which is fine, really. They promised an omnibus and they’re giving us an omnibus.
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 6
Well, they didn’t bother keeping the truth away for too long once it was made obvious. I have to respect that.
Your Forma #1-4 – Episode Notes
It’s been quite some time since I last wrote at length about anime on this blog, my last post being the one on Cardcaptor Sakura from last November…
First Impression: Your Forma
Cyber Inspector Echika begins a brain dive. Her assistant, it seems, is an android—or rather, an Amicus—and as such, he is imprinted with the Laws of Respect, aka…
Seasonal Selection – Managment of a Novice Alchemist Episode 6
It’s time for a clam bake at the obligatory swimsuit episode. Yeah, that’s what we’re doing. The gatherers hear about some special clams in a lake nearby. At…
Seasonal Selection – Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys Episode 6
In which we hit the obligatory low point turning point. In this episode, Ichibanboshi goes out drinking to drown his sorrows regarding his brother. He runs into a…
Your Forma Episode 3 Review – Suspect Chase
If they’re in Britain/England, why is the steering wheel on the other side?
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 10
You bet we need to clean up after last episode.
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 9
The episode title spoils the twist?
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 8
So, for those who wanted a darker and more serious episode out of Shikizakura, we have this one And, compared to the bits earlier in the show that…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 8
So, this episode is all pretty much ‘gearing up’ for what would seem to be a final confrontation. The Spearhead is down to five, and they’re being sent…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 11
The final episode of the cour (special pending) and if you told me this was the absolute final episode of the show and anything related to 86, I…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 9
The time for the great battle against Shin’s brother’s Shepherd form has come. The episode “feels” short, consisting essentially of two extremely powerful scenes rather than a lot…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 1
Well, a new season is here and despite the fact that some previous Selections are continuing (namely Scarlet Nexus and 86), it’s time to pick one of them…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 3
I won’t say that Shikizakura exactly did well, but it did display a basic understanding of the facts I was talking about last week. To its limited credit,…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 11
Because it wouldn’t be a traditional action climax without a big twist and a moment when it looks like all hope is lost… here’s all those things I…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 12
Well, at least Season 2 is already announced.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 10
This episode is again a very needed beat in the story, serving as the hero’s darkest moment before turning things around at the climax, and it comes at…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 3
I hope you enjoy slow burn drama over any general expectation of action. Frankly, I kind of appreciate the approach… at least when there’s been a second cour…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 1
Let’s get freaky.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 9
So, I misread things last week – the smooth talker from Black Team wasn’t the big monster; he was in the scene already. In the first couple of…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 2
Plot 101: Introducing some more of our main story. Honestly, one thing I’m enjoying about 86 is how it’s been building up the world. In the first episode,…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 5
This week, we calm down for a bit before getting into our next major plot. ; or, “Let’s Play Ball.”
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 10
No Lena this week. For much of the episode, not really much talking either. This one is very much on the artistic end, trying to convey an experience…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 2
“The one where we actually integrate the main character into the setting” is an important plot beat for a lot of shows, particularly ones in the Urban Fantasy…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 5
We’re back to standard form this week with a jolly beating of hard realities into Kakeru’s thick head, which oddly enough has things looking up for the show,…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 4
What the hell? So, in this 3D CGI Anime about people fighting demons by using power suits that may also be demons, we have this episode, fully 2D…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 4
Let’s drop this joke. It’s Vs. Turbo Granny.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 5
So, to an extent, I was wrong. Shin’s brother got a more detailed address than I was expecting, even if, no, it wasn’t the crux of another transformation.…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 11
Hey, this is just a thought, but maybe the show’s not going out on its highest note.
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 8
And now she really is a main character!
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 7
Feeling sorry for the murder ghost.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 7
The pace of 86, at times, makes it difficult to talk about, or at least to start with. At the bare minimum for the week’s episode we saw…