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Gintama ep7-9 Hell’s Paradise ep5 Thought the show was treading water a bit last week, but this was a pleasing return to form. The characterisation is surprisingly strong when it needs to be. Kamikatsu: Working for God in a Godless World ep1-4 I came to gawp at the dodgy CGI, and discovered...

Skip and Loafer ep4 Dead Mount Death Play ep3 Slightly retracting what I said before; this is not clever and any pretense of it being a serious horror series is now well and truly out of the window, but actually, I'm okay with that. The sheer enthusiasm with which it approaches the material...

Hell’s Paradise ep4 Birdie Wing ep5-6 Still having mixed feelings about this. It’s certainly compelling, but I think something about the combination of disparate elements just doesn’t click for me. In part, it’s also begun to annoy me that they keep alluding to the classic Dezaki/Sugino...

Skip and Loafer ep3 Uncle From Another World ep13 [End] I don't think there were any great depths to this (I certainly question how well it must go down if you don't recognise at least some of the Sega jokes), but it was nice, I hope they make more of it. Birdie Wing ep3-4 I get that Eve...

Skip and Loafer ep1-2 Initially, I had this down as a typically high quality PA Works production, with cute art and not much else to it, but it’s rather grown on me - it seems like there’s a bit more substance to it than I initially gave it credit for. I do find it distracting how much that...

Magical Destroyers ep1 This would not have been on my radar at all, but the really rather great OP animation popped up in my youtube recommendations, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Unfortunately, I'm pretty much in agreement with Dai's assessment on the previous page. There are some...

Hell's Paradise ep1-2 Originally, I was a bit indifferent to this as I'd not seen or heard anything about it beyond the pervasive advertising on Crunchyroll and it just seemed like something they were shilling, but it actually seems pretty good - I always enjoy the 'condemned prisoners on a...

Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! ep1 My expectations for this were low, as I wasn't sure that there was enough to Megumin as a character to carry a series on her own, but this I thought this was quite fun, albeit in a rather more gentle fashion than the mainline show. Rokudo's...

John Wick: Chapter 4 The continuing saga of Keanu Reeves’s repentant hitman sees him trying to use his former masters’ dogmatic rules against them, as he tangles with a blind assassin (Donnie Yen) sent to end him once and for all. While it does feel a bit like we’re repeating quite a few ideas...

Buddy Daddies ep10-12 [End] I’m not sure the series will stick much in my memory beyond ‘that was a good looking show’, but yeah, that was nice. I wouldn’t have been adverse to a little more action, but I think they found the right tone for the series. Couldn‘t have pinned it down to a...

Ahh, yes. I've not seen the film in its entirety (seen a fair bit of it through clips), but I've heard a lot about Penguin's Memory and I'm very curious about where the idea for the film came from. My understanding is that the penguins were popular mascot characters for a brand of beer in...

Yeah… Don’t go into Threads too lightly, that’s one of the bleakest experiences ever put to film.

Yeah, I don’t mean to be down on the original series, but I think it’s aged a lot more visibly than the later adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi’s work (at least for the early part) and David Pro are really giving the new one everything they’ve got in terms of the visuals. That said, if the...

Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro s2 ep11-12 [end] Having been generally a bit medium on the first season, I was surprised at how much I ended up enjoying this one. I don’t think it’s anything too revelatory, but it’s nice to see a series like this that actually develops the characters in a...

The Challenge (1982) A solid, often surprisingly brutal action film that largely side-steps the cheap orientalism of 'foriegner in Japan' films of the time, this one sees washed-up Californian boxer Scott Glen recruited as a bag man to smuggle an antique sword into Japan, at the behest of aging...

Trigun Stampede ep 8-10 It took a while, but I think this has finally grown on me. I was quite close to dropping it, but, despite my misgivings about the prospect of the inevitable flashback episode, these last few have actually been quite strong. I could hazard a guess at how it’s going to...

Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro S2 ep1-7 Pretty sure I said I wasn’t going to go back to this, and yet, here we are. Originally, I’d dismissed this as just more of the same from the first season, but I came back to it as I felt the need for something undemanding, and was surprised at how much...

Blue Period ep2-7 For a series about art, I’d have liked if it were a little more visually interesting (it’s fine, but I think ‘unambitious’ is the word I’d use), although that notwithstanding, I’ve very much enjoyed this one. I find it very relatable, if not unnervingly close to home at...

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 S2 ep2-3 (Eng Dub) Lupin III: Part 2 ep46-47 (Eng Dub) Something else I think the newer series' struggle to recapture is the earlier shows' anarchic sense of humour- one of these eps starts off with Lupin prank calling Zenigata just for the hell of it, for example...

Please do not use ‘holocaust’ in this context in future. Thanks.