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Trillion Game ep1 Considering that I don’t think we’ve had an anime adaptation of any manga Ikegami has worked on since the Crying Freeman OVAs ended, I was curious to see what a modern take on his art style might look like. And honestly? Bit derpy. The show isn’t unappealing to look at, but...

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Dan Da Dan ep3 Welp. ‘Grandma’ Seiko gave me a feeling so complicated. Gun Gale Online II: Gunner Galer Onliner ep2-3 For a series that, by design, runs on computer game logic, it sure feels like none of these characters are familiar with any of the gameplay tropes one might associate with...

Day of the Dead (1985) A team of civilian scientists trying to find a cure for the zombie plague faces mutiny from their military protectors in the third instalment of George A. Romero’s Living Dead series. Opinion seems to have warmed to this film over the years, with its fans citing the...

Uzumaki ep3 Production issues notwithstanding, I don’t really know what to make of Uzumaki. Much as things seem to be getting steadily worse for everyone in the village, the general reaction seems to be for anyone not directly involved to ignore it and move on, as if everyone is too polite to...

Dan Da Dan ep2 Ninja Kamui ep2-3 Yeah. It’s undemanding enough that I might keep this up as something to stick on in the background while I’m working, but much as a ninja-themed Kawajiri throwback ought to be right up my alley, this is an almost comically bland series, and everything about it...

Prey (2022) A fresh and engaging entry to the Predator series (when last could you say that?), that sees a young Comanche woman (Amber Midthunder) and her brother encounter cinema’s most famous big-game hunter in the wilds of 18th century America. The film’s modest circumstances do show in the...

Uzumaki (English dub) ep1-2 Well, that was a journey. Not having read the manga, my suspicion is that they’re rattling through the material at a much faster pace than they should be, to the point where it feels a little unintentionally (?) camp, but the first episode is really quite an...

SAO Alternative: GGO II ep1 Oh no, this came back. Oh no, I’m watching it again. Oh no. In all seriousness, I was curious to see how they’d continue this one, given that unless they plan to introduce a lot of new characters, they’ve already exhausted the schtick of revealing how everyone’s...

Dan Da Dan ep1 I could quite happily not see , but otherwise this seems fun; the quest-swapping dynamic between the two leads is entertaining. The animators have certainly been huffing magic markers again too, it looks great. Bullbuster ep8-10 The CR app keeps reminding me that I never...

The Fable ep23-25 [end] While I was never blown away by The Fable, it was a refreshing break from the usual fare (a show with a cast exclusively made of adults!) that kept me entertained pretty consistently all the way through, and it definitely filled a gap for me in giving us an anime...

There wasn’t much that appealed to me this season; the only thing that I stuck with all the way through was Terminator Zero, which I guess would make that my choice by default. I did enjoy it though; some unlikeable characters notwithstanding, I thought it did a good job of making me want to...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines ep1-2 Quite how much of an appetite I have for yet another high-school rom-com at this stage in the game remains to be seen, but this is certainly making all the right noises and good lord, is it ever well animated. It’s not as outlandish, but I feel A-1 are...

Terminator Zero ep6-8 Yeah, that was pretty good. Much as it’s blatantly borrowing from the first two only two films which were ever made, I think it does enough to feel like a distinct entity in its own right. It would be nice to feel a bit more attachment to the characters (a shiny penny to...

Terminator Zero ep1-5 Reserving judgment (day) until I reach the end, although thus far I’ve been much in agreement with what everyone else has said; the characters could do with being more engaging and they’re definitely playing the hits, but it’s well enough packaged that I haven’t been put...

SAHO mentioned it already, but Arknights is very accessible on a f2p basis, especially if you like it enough to stick with it. No direct PC client unfortunately, but there are workarounds for that if you want to play it on desktop.

Astro Note ep1-3 Kind of on the fence about this one; there’s nothing particularly wrong with it, but I feel like it could do with a stronger hook. As a romcom, it’s all just a bit too genteel and mannered for me. As other people have commented, its setup is uncannily similar to Maison Ikkoku...

Do you know what language the film was in? The fact that it seems to be so hard to find anything that matches your description makes me wonder if it might have been a Japanese-European co-production. So much of English-language anime fandom is focused solely on Japanese films that, if it was...

Another trailer has dropped for the Arknights x Delicious in Dungeon event and I think this is the first one to show the Dungeon crew in game (can’t believe the didn’t make Senshi a 6 star, smh).

Come and See (1985) A poor teenage farmer in Belarus joins the partisans fighting the nazis in 1943, in this famously haunting anti-war drama from the USSR. Even knowing some of the more famous images from the film beforehand, I still found this tough viewing, with seemingly any respite poor...