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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Visu­ally at least, Let­ter Bee is remark­ably strik­ing: washes of indigo and pin­pricks of grey-whites make it aes­thet­ic­ally strong; how­ever in the per­petual twi­light of the fantasy world it por­trays, appre­ci­ation turns quickly into indif­fer­ence. The motif of particles drift­ing softly from the sky is over­used to the point where its original […]

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• review,
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How many eyes? 11eyes. Cer­tainly more than 3×3 Eyes and The Girl with the Blue Eye, numer­ic­ally at least. A fas­cin­a­tion with eyes and in par­tic­u­lar eye­patches (see also Rental Magica, Ten­jou Tenge et. al.), this series has the stand­ard out­fit­ting of an enig­matic past and hid­den powers con­nec­ted with said eye […]

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There are many good panty epis­odes in anime: epis­ode four of Mai-HiME springs to mind as one, epis­ode three of Yoku wakaru gendai mahou is not. Whereas the former had comic tim­ing well bey­ond what one would have expec­ted its stu­dio to be able to pro­duce, the lat­ter is taw­dry, bor­ing  tripe […]

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The first thing one notices about Night Wiz­ard is the grad­ated hair. The second is that it isn’t as laugh­ably com­ical as its name would sug­gest it to be. Pitch­ing itself as a fantasy romp with school chil­dren, the series’ first three epis­odes focus more on slice of life than sli­cing of […]

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