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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: Shukufuku no Campanella

21Jul20102210

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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3 Episode Taste Test: Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu (Legend of the Legendary Heroes)

18Jul20101530

2 responses

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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Bygones: Boogiepop Phantom

02Jun20102300

4 responses

First released: Janu­ary 2000
Boo­giepop Phantom is a series which imme­di­ately makes one won­der whether their tele­vi­sion is func­tion­ing cor­rectly. Shortly after the mel­an­choly open­ing it adds the speak­ers to that list. By the end of the first epis­ode it adds the viewer’s brain. It is a rev­erie of mad­ness, murder, altered states and […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Fairy Tail

25Nov20090015

2 responses

Cast­ing Aya Hir­ano as the lead char­ac­ter is not the worst thing that Fairy Tail does, but it comes close. Her voice is so iden­ti­fi­able and her status so con­found­ingly over­whelm­ing that it over­shad­ows many of the other more accom­plished act­ors such as Rie Kugim­iya (Alphonse from Full­metal Alchem­ist) and Tet­suya Kakihara […]

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