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3 Episode Taste Test: Seikon no Qwaser (The Qwaser of Stigmata)

07Feb20102200

When one’s premise is a magical fuel present only in breast milk and requires young chil­dren to extract this via the most obvi­ous method avail­able, hav­ing an cen­sored ver­sion avail­able on all but the most lib­eral of tele­vi­sion chan­nels seems counter-productive. The uncensored ver­sion fills in a lot of the gaps that […]

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Queen’s Blade (Season 2)

18Jan20102200

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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3 Episode Taste Test: Sora no Otoshimono (Heaven’s Lost Property)

08Nov20092153

Around the end­ing cred­its of the second epis­ode one real­ises that they’ve just watched a flock of women’s under­wear take flight, some with mock jet-streams behind them. That the key ele­ment of Sora no Otoshimono’s story  —  a busty, docile angel that fell from a hole in the sky  —  is the most tame concept of the series demonstrates […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Seiken no Blacksmith (The Sacred Blacksmith)

04Nov20091331

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Seiken no Black­smith is about as close to sword porn as anime is likely to get  —  gra­tu­it­ous close-ups of everything from katanas to two-handed broadswords, even a sword that turns into a scantily clothed female  —  there is no doubt that someone on the pro­duc­tion team has a bor­der­line fet­ish for the weapons. It is […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Kiddy Girl-and

03Nov20091402

Kiddy Grade has had a troubled upbring­ing: ori­gin­ally aired in 2002 by a still vaguely respect­able Gonzo, it was an unre­mark­able series until past the half-way point when it briefly became excel­lent then dipped back down to a sim­mer­ing mediocre. Not­able only inso­far that it was dir­ec­ted by Keiji Gotoh who also […]

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