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K-On! The Movie
A Younger Kris H! from a few years back during the @MangaUK Community Event for this movie said:
K-On! The Movie is a heartwarming, visually pleasing film, an absolute TourDeForce of emotion, fun, music and of course Cake! #K_OnMovie
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Still stands. Still love the Keion's and whatever they do. And watching on a better TV than previously brings out the sumptous visuals even moreso.
 
Digimon Adventure 02-Episodes 39-41

The Seven Deadly Sins-Episodes 19-24 (Complete)

Generally, characters coming back from the dead is pretty lame, but if Hawk didn't come back at the end, this show would have gotten about a 3/10.

Anyway, this is an absolutely excellent series. It's still very much a battle shounen, so if that's not your cup of tea, this won't change your mind, but as far as that genre goes, it's honestly one of the best I've seen. It's like all the good stuff people like without any of the baggage you expect from Bleach or Naruto. There is no filler, the battles aren't stretched out for dozens of episodes, the animation is fantastic and remains consistently so and the characters are fleshed out in a way that feels natural, rather than shoehorning in flashback episodes before a character dies. I could have done without Meliodas being a pervert type character (Those bits were never funny) but they're fairly infrequent and not enough to take away from the rest of the show. So yeah, if that sounds like your kind of thing, check this out ASAP.

Really is a shame this show doesn't have an English home media release anywhere, would definitely be one I'd buy. I don't even care who gets the licence at this point, I just want a release. I'd be very surprised if it's not Aniplex, given they produce it, it's from A-1 Pictures (Seriously, when was the last A-1 show that wasn't AoA?) and the fact the dub is clearly Bang Zoom (Haven't actually looked that up, but based on the cast, I'm almost certain it is) which neither Funimation nor Sentai use anymore. If AoA could get ahold of the manga bundled OVAs, I'd probably be up for an AoA import of this, I enjoyed it that much. I also hope Netflix (or anyone really) can get the 4 episode sequel series up for streaming at some point, I really need more of this!
 
Yeah - Seven Deadly Sins seriously needs a physical release - as not everyone has Netflix.

I finished powering through the manga version this weekend - and I have mixed feelings about it. The author is an incredibly talented artist - far above and beyond many other Shonen series running at the moment, but the plot can be pretty slow moving at times. I found I only really started getting into it around the 100-150 chapter mark as a bigger, higher stakes arc kicks off.

And you're right - the body count is pretty light. Pretty much no-one dies in it - although to be fair, it's nowhere near as bad as Fairy Tail, which has taken some absolutely ridiculous 'back from the dead' liberties recently.
 
Lutga said:
Yeah - Seven Deadly Sins seriously needs a physical release - as not everyone has Netflix.

I finished powering through the manga version this weekend - and I have mixed feelings about it. The author is an incredibly talented artist - far above and beyond many other Shonen series running at the moment, but the plot can be pretty slow moving at times. I found I only really started getting into it around the 100-150 chapter mark as a bigger, higher stakes arc kicks off.

And you're right - the body count is pretty light. Pretty much no-one dies in it - although to be fair, it's nowhere near as bad as Fairy Tail, which has taken some absolutely ridiculous 'back from the dead' liberties recently.
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Hmm, whilst I can't say I know how far into the story 150 chapters is, I never felt like the anime dragged, I thought the pacing was pretty good.
 
From what I've heard the anime is better paced as it manages to cram 70+ chapters into 26 eps - so a pretty brisk pace compared to stuff like One Piece where it's 1 chapter = 1 episode.
 
Yeah, the anime finishes neatly at the end of the first major arc - and after a brief interlude, the next big arc starts up (which hasn't been animated yet) - imo it's this arc where things start getting really good and the major villains start getting introduced.
 
Scorching Ping Pong Girls-Episode 7

Hmm, I wonder if this show is going to have a second season. I mean, it's more than halfway through at this point, and everyone is still just training for the tournament, and it looks like next week will be training matches too. Not sure if this has been confirmed to only be 12 episodes long, but I'm not sure they could do a tournament justice in only 4 episodes. I guess we'll see.

Also, I just realised we're over halfway into this season. It feels like it only started a couple of weeks ago!

Digimon Adventure 02-Episodes 42-44

The Tatami Galaxy-Episodes 1-3

Jesus Christ. After that first episode I thought my brain was going to explode with the speed of those subtitles along with the visuals. Thankfully, things slowed down a bit to a level comprehensible by humans in the other episodes. Saying that, I'm still not entirely sure what to make of this series thus far. I am enjoying it, for what it's worth, I'm just not sure I could exactly put my finger on why exactly. Considering I'm reviewing this for the site, this is rather perplexing.
 
Classicaloid ep 5. Another okay episode, but any anime which has Beethoven and a gender swapped Tchaikovsky doing a music battle using penguins and mouse-men is an... experience.
 
The Tatami Galaxy-Episodes 4-6

Oh God, that Johnny bit was amazing. Also, I must praise Shintaro Asanuma's English, it was surprisingly good compared to other attempts at japaneae voice actors speaking in English.
 
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Izetta The Last Witch - Episode 7 - God I hope this show is 12 episodes....

Drifters - Episode 6 - Good fun as usual.

Mobile Suit Gundam - Iron Blooded Orphans - Episode whatever the hell I'm at - Oh would you look at that, someones waving a death flag over there.....

Konosuba - Episode 1 - I saw someone mention it on here and remembered it was something I wanted to check out....not convinced it's for me based on the first episode but I feel I should wait til the mage looking girl turns up before I properly judge it as she looks a laugh (not that Aqua didn't have her moments, she had a lot of arse shots too though....).
 
Top Secret: The Revelation ep2-4

Felt I had written this off a bit hastily, so decided to give it another shot. It's more watchable than I initially thought, but I found much of the appeal came from gawping at how amazingly stupid its plots can be, for what is ostensibly an adult crime drama. There's a kernel of a good idea in here, but the author was clearly more interested in the personal lives of the main characters than doing any research into crime or the methods of investigating it.

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Konosuba - Episode 1 - I saw someone mention it on here and remembered it was something I wanted to check out....not convinced it's for me based on the first episode but I feel I should wait til the mage looking girl turns up before I properly judge it as she looks a laugh (not that Aqua didn't have her moments, she had a lot of arse shots too though....).
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The mage is pretty good, but it was the knight who had me in tears. Probably funnier if you've spent a bit of time with the Fate franchise though.
 
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The Tatami Galaxy-Episodes 7-11 (Complete)

Review incoming shortly!

Sound! Euphonium S2-Episode 7

HOORAH, AN ASUKA FOCUSED EPISODE

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Oh.

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Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu Kara. 2nd Season-Episode 7
 
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