If ever there was a need to reit­er­ate it: suc­cess­ful com­edy hinges on the deliv­ery. Sei­tokai Yak­uin­domo some­how doesn’t under­stand this and after cram­ming joke after staid joke into an epis­ode, it still comes across as bland and unin­spired. All the con­stitu­ent parts are there: the all-girls school recently turned co-ed, the […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• accessibility,
• all-girl,
• Anime,
• comedy,
• females,
• girls,
• humour,
• kyoto,
• review,
• school,
• seitokai,
• seitokai yakuindomo

Where have all the young men gone? Sure there are the mil­it­ary men, barely old enough to hold a mean­ing­ful rank, but the Strike Witches 2 uni­verse is entirely bereft of any young boys. Per­haps ages six through six­teen are spent in secret train­ing to reduce the num­ber of assaults due to […]

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• Anime,
• breasts,
• broomsticks,
• children,
• fanservice,
• fantasy,
• lynne,
• magic,
• mio,
• miyafuji,
• neuroi,
• perinne,
• review,
• strike,
• strike witches,
• teenagers,
• uncomfortable,
• war,
• witches

It comes as quite a sur­prise that Shuku­fuku no Cam­pan­ella is in based on a visual novel rather than an RPG; the hints are remark­ably strong with quests, line-dancing com­bat and job-classes, even the open­ing scen­ario seems ripped straight from Chrono Trig­ger or Legend of Zelda: The Min­ish Cap. What lies beyond […]

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• Anime,
• campanella,
• fantasy,
• fop,
• magic,
• pastel,
• review,
• robot,
• rpg,
• shukufuku no campanella,
• talking animals,
• twee,
• visual novel

There’s def­in­itely a space between “High” and “School” so why High School of the Dead dropped it for the canon­ical abbre­vi­ation H.O.T.D. is unknown but this is just one of many oddit­ies the first three epis­odes of the zombies-invade-Japan series con­tains. It plun­ders recent genre movies with gay aban­don but still feels […]

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• blood,
• breasts,
• fanservice,
• genre,
• gore,
• high school,
• high school of the dead,
• highschool,
• highschool of the dead,
• review,
• school,
• walking dead,
• zombies

Inten­tional or not, medi­eval fantasy series always fall under the shadow of Ber­serk. Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu doesn’t do itself any favours by fea­tur­ing an effem­in­ate, sil­ver haired leader or an desir­able, unusu­ally power­ful ally. There are cer­tainly other par­al­lels to be drawn but the first three epis­odes prove whole­heartedly that […]

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• berserk,
• death,
• densetsu no yuusha no densetsu,
• fantasy,
• gore,
• heroes,
• legend legend,
• legend of the legendary heroes,
• magic,
• medieval,
• review,
• swords