The open­ing says all it needs to about the first three epis­odes of Need­less: loud, brash, and utter non­sense. The plot, flimsy as it is, con­cerns a nefar­i­ous cor­por­a­tion called “Simeon”  who are brazenly chop­ping up the “Need­less”: a group of super powered twits clut­ter­ing up the Japan­ese post World War 3 land­scape. One of […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• adam blade,
• Anime,
• arc system works,
• blade,
• blazblue,
• fist of the north star,
• guilty gear,
• needless,
• review,
• supernatural,
• tokyo,
• ww3

On a quiet Sunday after­noon of a Bank hol­i­day week­end, a pro­ject is born mar­ry­ing the cel­lu­lar auto­mata of John Hor­ton Conway’s Game of Life and the auto­matic gen­er­a­tion of avatars. While not entirely suc­cess­ful, the found­a­tion has been laid for fur­ther improvement.

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• animation,
• automata,
• avatar,
• cellular automata,
• Code,
• conways game of life,
• game of life,
• gd,
• Geekery,
• gravatar,
• life,
• php

First epis­ode event for Sora no man­i­m­ani: tiny girl throw­ing golden stars like con­fetti from the school roof and pro­claim­ing the exist­ence of the astro­nomy club to all who have gathered below. As with so many first epis­ode events, this dose of con­cen­trated lun­acy is quickly for­got­ten and its impact on the […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
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• astronomy,
• at the mercy of the sky,
• fumie,
• mihoshi,
• review,
• saku,
• sky,
• sora no manimani,
• stargazing,
• stars,
• studio comet

When Stu­dio bones attaches itself to an anime, it is a mark of qual­ity that tran­scends genre. Not one of bones’s back cata­logue can be claimed to be sub­stand­ard in either anim­a­tion qual­ity or pro­duc­tion. Com­mon occur­rences like a first epis­ode budget-burn or com­prom­ising fidel­ity for fluid­ity so com­mon to seri­al­ised TV […]

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• city,
• earthquake,
• magnitude,
• mari,
• metropolis,
• mirai,
• research,
• review,
• tokyo,
• tokyo magnitude 8.0,
• yuuki

Or to give its full, punc­tu­ated title: Prin­cess Lover! The premise  —  once again  —  is to cram as many lithe, buxom females into as con­fined a space as pos­sible and provide an empty husk of a male prot­ag­on­ist to cata­lyse their fre­quently out­land­ish but never overtly raunchy inter­ac­tions. In short: fan-service romance com­edy. The anime […]

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• fan-service,
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• princess lover,
• review,
• teppei