Cap­tur­ing the spirit of foot­ball and not simply throw­ing angry young men together is a tough ask, whether Giant Killing achieves it is a ques­tion best left for an audi­ence more famil­iar with the enthu­si­asm the sport engenders. The first three epis­odes cer­tainly cap­ture the fury and, one pre­sumes, the pas­sion it […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• english,
• football,
• giant,
• giant killing,
• j-league,
• killing,
• league,
• manager,
• review,
• soccer,
• sport

I’m sure like many oth­ers I was enthralled by the story that the final epis­ode of School Days had been indef­in­itely post­poned due to a sup­posedly viol­ent end­ing and its like­ness to a real-world killing. Not one to pass up on con­tro­versy, I queued up the series expect­ing it to be a […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• days,
• ecchi,
• eroge,
• hentai,
• highschool,
• killing,
• kimi ga nozomu eien,
• makoto,
• murder,
• postponement,
• review,
• romance,
• school,
• school days,
• shuffle!