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Zero no Tsukaima (The Familiar of Zero)

30Sep20071059

It’s hard to know where to begin with Zero no Tsukaima: whether to start by gut­ting the laugh­able excuse for a plot, per­haps cas­tig­at­ing the clock­work col­lec­tion of char­ac­ters, or per­haps even start­ing on the atro­ciously simplistic anim­a­tion and aes­thet­ics. From all of this one could be cer­tain that it is a […]

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Claymore

29Sep20071855

Claymore’s hook is the pres­ence of blonde, nubile young ladies with the tit­u­lar, impossibly large swords set in a fant­ast­ical, medi­eval world. Being able to move past this premise is the first of many things that this series man­ages to do well, unfor­tu­nately it is marred by a pleth­ora of other niggling […]

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School Days

28Sep20072306

I’m sure like many oth­ers I was enthralled by the story that the final epis­ode of School Days had been indef­in­itely post­poned due to a sup­posedly viol­ent end­ing and its like­ness to a real-world killing. Not one to pass up on con­tro­versy, I queued up the series expect­ing it to be a […]

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Lucky Star

27Sep20071518

It’s hard to describe Lucky Star without using words such as “meta” or “proto”, or com­par­ing it to sim­ilar all-female high-school com­ed­ies such as Azu­manga Daioh or School Rumble or per­haps drift­ing into explet­ives about the cir­cu­lar Suzu­miya Haruhi ref­er­ences by Kyoto Anim­a­tion. The concept to take away from Lucky Star is […]

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