Within moments of the first epis­ode, Dur­arara!!‘s con­nec­tion to Bac­cano! is obvi­ous: brightly col­oured eye­c­atches punc­tu­at­ing the open­ing and enu­mer­at­ing the size­able cast. Shar­ing a sig­ni­fic­ant por­tion of its predecessor’s pro­duc­tion team, dir­ector and char­ac­ter designer included, it like­wise refuses to be pigeon holed into a single genre instead throw­ing its weight […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• baccano,
• dollars,
• drill,
• durarara,
• gang,
• headless rider,
• ikebukuro,
• mikado,
• review,
• shinjuku,
• tokyo

The easi­est way to describe Sora no Woto is to identify its most obvi­ous influ­ences. Already well estab­lished is the K-On! style gelat­in­ous char­ac­ter designs how­ever the set up and pacing has more in com­mon with Haibane and its European influ­enced loc­ale. Most prom­in­ent how­ever is the tonal sim­il­ar­it­ies to the Valkyria […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• army,
• brass,
• bugle,
• instrument,
• music,
• review,
• schoolgirl,
• sky,
• sora no woto,
• sounds of the sky,
• trumpet

Step­ping back into Moon­phase ter­rit­ory while sim­ul­tan­eously rid­ing the resur­gent interest in vam­pires, SHAFT and dir­ector Akiy­uki Shinbo take on the adapt­a­tion of a manga infam­ous for its racy con­tent and viol­ent over­tures. The first three epis­odes of Dance in the Vam­pire Bund demon­strate little of the lat­ter and a lot of […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• blood,
• fangs,
• keyframes,
• loli,
• review,
• school,
• shaft,
• vampire,
• werewolf,
• young

The first sea­son of Queen’s Blade was under­whelm­ing, bey­ond the ini­tial devi­ance on dis­play it went only slightly fur­ther than many of the other fighting-fanservice genre shows and exploited none of the oppor­tun­it­ies a guar­an­teed late night, paid chan­nel slot offers. Sea­son two does noth­ing to change this status quo and, if […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• blade,
• breasts,
• combat,
• fanservice,
• fighting,
• girls,
• queen's blade,
• queens,
• review,
• season 2,
• sword,
• women

The second sea­son of Darker than Black requires a lot of faith to watch for it not only dawdles when it should be run­ning, it becomes increas­ingly obvi­ous that it will not answer any of the ques­tions posed in the first series, but will be rais­ing innu­mer­able sub­sequent ques­tions. Ambi­val­ence when beginning […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• contractors,
• darker than black,
• gemini of the meteor,
• hei,
• meteor,
• remuneration,
• review,
• ryuusei no gemini,
• suou