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Prisma Illya ep2 Not much else to add on this one; I would agree that it’s a marked improvement on the first one, but overall this is still sitting around the level of something I’d watch if it was on, but wouldn’t otherwise go out of my way for. Rider making an appearance as the enemy...

Fate Casual / Nudity ep1 With only a modest knowledge of the Fate franchise, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one and, honestly, after one episode I don’t feel much the wiser. I don’t remember Illya being a particularly well developed character and it surprised me that they would pick...

Rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, I’ve just been a bit braindead away from work lately. Princess Tutu ep1-3: Duck Duck Go This one is slightly tinged with bad nostalgia for me as the first person I remember telling me it was good was a friend who is now long absent. But...

Fancy Lala ep3 - Powder In ‘Char’ is not a career path, Miho. A few discomforting moments notwithstanding (putting your mentally 9 year old protagonist into a swimwear photoshoot is a lot to unpack) I’d be interested to see a bit more of this one. Given that this is ostensibly a show aimed...

Fancy Lala ep1-2 Does it confirm me as an adult that I find something slightly sad in all these stories about kids being given the ability to instantly grow up? Just waiting for the episode with Lala being fined for late completion of a self-assessment tax return… Bad nostalgia...

Cardcaptor Sakura ep1 - Fire Walk With Me well, someone had to. Poor Sakura. Even compared to Usagi being marked out as the ‘chosen one’, I think of all the main characters we’ve seen so far, Sakura seems the most Shanghaied into this magical girl lark, having done nothing more to Meddle...

Sailor Moon ep3 Roses are red, Violets are blue, In the name of the moon, Imma punish you Yeah, that one was quite fun, I thought it was nice to see Haruna get in on the joke at the end rather than chastising everyone, Handled differently, I think the mysterious radio show could be quite...

Sailor Moon ep2 - Pretty Soldier of Fortune Based on these episodes, I think the way they’ve handled Umino as a character feels a bit indicative of when the show was made. Tastes in protagonists have changed over time and I feel a contemporary series would treat him more sympathetically...

Sailor Moon ep1 I still can’t believe it’s taken me this long to actually see an episode of Sailor Moon. Going into it afresh now, I was a little apprehensive of how I might get on with the actual show behind the cultural phenomenon, but mercifully, it was utterly charming. Usagi is much more...

Minky Momo ep3 - Electra Glide in Pink Welp, I didn’t expect them to bring the tanks in. That does feel very like a gag you’d find in Oshii’s Urusei Yatsura (along with copious notes on how the JSDF came to have them). But yeah, I think Dai covered everything I’d have mentioned on this one -...

Not calling her Minky Mothra, smh. Curiosity also got the better of me, so a quick note on: Creamy Mami ep1 While enough is borrowed from Minky Momo that it feels derivative at times, this feels like a lot of lessons have been learned. It’s better paced, there’s clear logic to the narrative...

Minky Momo ep2 - I Bless the Rains Down in Akihabara Well, that happened. The previous episode grew on me as it went on, but this one felt even more scattershot by comparison - considering that the moral of the story appears to be as simple as ‘it’s okay to wear glasses’, it feels like we got...

Minky Momo ep1 For some reason, I always get Minky Momo mixed up with Creamy Mami (what a sentence), despite never having seen either. But yeah, she’s a bit presumptive our Momo, isn’t she? Seems like she just barges into that poor couple’s home and gaslights them into believing she was there...

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about Penelope Pitstop - she even had her own spin-off series for a little while, which apparently predated Josie and the Pussycats.

That is absolutely someone’s doujin project that I do not want to google…

Princess Tonight - ep2 Maybe my mind has adjusted to it more now, but I didn’t find camera nearly as distracting this time. Having the context of Sapphire’s apparent creation also adds something, I think - Choppy being there certainly makes more sense now, even though I was surprised that he...

Princess Knight ep1 Well, that was a trip. Despite my interest in vintage anime generally, I must admit to not having seen many of the early shows - prior to this, the oldest thing I’d seen was the first Lupin series from 71 - and the editing takes a bit of getting used to. It feels like the...

Sorairo Utility ep4 Find someone who looks at you the way Haruka looks at a new driver. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex ep1-12 (rewatch, English dub) The passage of time only makes me appreciate SAC more, I think we’ve still never seen any other sci-fi procedural top how...

Ubel Blart ep1-2 This is an odd confection, it feels like it’s torn between standard shonen fantasy tropes and trying to do something darker, often setting up a situation that looks like it’s heading somewhere gruesome, only to pull back from it at the last minute. It also feels like the whole...

I have somehow never seen an entire episode of Sailor Moon. Not intentionally so, just doesn’t seem to have come my way.