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3 Episode Taste Test: Strike Witches 2

26Jul20102000

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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3 Episode Taste Test: High School of the Dead

20Jul20102040

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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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Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (The Demon King in the Back Row)

19Jun20101800

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Takashi Watanabe obvi­ously woke up one morn­ing, head still groggy from a night of drink, drugs and debauch­ery, one hand clutch­ing a nap­kin with a list scrawled on it  —  ninjas, cyborgs, magic, gods, dragons, breasts  —  and in the other a pro­duc­tion con­tract, slop­pily signed by him­self. There is no way else a series as […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Ikkitousen — Xtreme Xecutor

13Apr20102030

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Watch­ing the latest series of Ikkit­ousen, with the absurd sub­title of Xtreme Xecutor, is like view­ing a relic of the past. Series focused on both fight­ing and fanser­vice have long since sur­passed it in terms of what can be offered: whether that’s tit­il­la­tion or solid action, the first three epis­odes con­tain much […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Ladies versus Butlers

02Feb20102200

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With a premise remin­is­cent of My-Otome and cham­pi­on­ing the cur­rent trend of snotty faux-aristocrats, Ladies versus But­lers starts as it intends to con­tinue: copi­ous, point­less fanser­vice. The frantic first epis­ode is chase across pala­tial school grounds which sees girls of an acutely fair dis­pos­i­tion faint at the very sight of a teenage […]

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