Unima­gin­at­ive. Tired. Bland. Tedi­ous. Insipid. The list of derog­at­ory descrip­tions for Käm­p­fer is lengthy but suf­fice to say the utter lack of inspir­a­tion the series demon­strates is quite stag­ger­ing. Cherry pick­ing the most aggrav­at­ing ele­ments from other shows and com­bin­ing them into a thor­oughly banal present­a­tion of gender swap­ping and fight­ing females […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• akane,
• Anime,
• blue,
• bracelet,
• fanservice,
• fighting,
• german,
• girls,
• hair,
• kämpfer,
• natsuru,
• red,
• review,
• sakura,
• school,
• schoolgirls

Under­stat­ing Kimi ni Todoke would be to say that it is sac­char­ine: one can­not help but grin mor­on­ic­ally at the con­tinu­ing quest of Sawako Kur­onuma to ingra­ti­ate her­self with her school mates. Afflic­ted with the curse of rumour, she starts the series alone and sub­ject to spuri­ous tales of bring­ing curses upon […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• blush,
• comedy,
• deformed,
• kimi ni todoke,
• manga,
• reaching you,
• review,
• romance,
• sparklies,
• super deformed,
• sweet

Two minutes and twenty seconds from the start of the first epis­ode until the chir­rupy open­ing and nearly fif­teen ref­er­ences to other anime are made, an aver­age of one every ten seconds. Breath­less to the point of near schizo­phrenia, the intro­duc­tion to Sei­tokai no Ichizon crams in ref­er­ences to pop­u­lar websites, […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• comedy,
• decision,
• discretion,
• hekiyou,
• hekiyou gakuen seitokai gijiroku,
• ichizon,
• judgement,
• parody,
• review,
• school,
• seitokai,
• seitokai no ichizon,
• student council

Ignor­ing the most obvi­ous pussy jokes, Nyan Koi is an unabashed romantic com­edy. The open­ing seconds are rife with famili­ar­ity: the sun stream­ing through classroom win­dows, a waif-like school­girl stand­ing demurely oppos­ite the rag-haired boy. Were it not over in a few seconds the tempta­tion to turn it off in dis­gust would […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• cat,
• cat love,
• junpei,
• kitten,
• kitty,
• mamba,
• mew wuv,
• nyan koi,
• review,
• romance,
• romantic comedy,
• romcom

The pro­duc­tion of a Queen’s Blade anime builds on the fighting-fanservice genre cham­pioned by titles such as Ikkit­ousen and Tejou Tenge and takes it to the most logical next step. The series, like the “visual com­bat books” pre­ced­ing it, is a cyn­ical mar­ket­ing play, a mul­ti­fa­ceted brothel cater­ing to every fet­ish and […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• blade,
• breasts,
• combat,
• fanservice,
• fighting,
• girls,
• medieval,
• queen's blade,
• queens,
• review,
• sword,
• women