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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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• breasts,
• broomsticks,
• children,
• fanservice,
• fantasy,
• lynne,
• magic,
• mio,
• miyafuji,
• neuroi,
• perinne,
• review,
• strike,
• strike witches,
• teenagers,
• uncomfortable,
• war,
• witches

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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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• alchemist,
• Anime,
• campanella,
• fantasy,
• fop,
• magic,
• pastel,
• review,
• robot,
• rpg,
• shukufuku no campanella,
• talking animals,
• twee,
• visual novel

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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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• berserk,
• death,
• densetsu no yuusha no densetsu,
• fantasy,
• gore,
• heroes,
• legend legend,
• legend of the legendary heroes,
• magic,
• medieval,
• review,
• swords

First released: July 2008
It’s easier to think of Strike Witches more as unful­filling por­no­graphy than a more tra­di­tional, coher­ent series; all the hall­marks are present: copi­ous nud­ity, low cam­era angles, paper-thin plot, a cast reduced to cari­ca­tures, fake les­bi­an­ism and innu­mer­able fet­ishes. It makes it more enjoy­able to watch with this in mind […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• baths,
• breasts,
• bygones,
• charlotte,
• cheeky,
• ecchi,
• erica,
• francesca,
• gertrud,
• gonzo,
• hentai,
• lynette,
• magic,
• mecha,
• minna,
• mio,
• nudity,
• panties,
• pants,
• perrine,
• porn,
• review,
• strike,
• strike witches,
• uncensored,
• uncomfortable,
• witches,
• yoshika

A defin­it­ive list of things wrong with Full­metal Alchem­ist: Broth­er­hood: the second half doesn’t focus on the Elric broth­ers enough, the open­ing epis­odes move too quickly for new­comers, some of the epis­ode cliff­hangers feel forced, the cit­ies are unima­gin­at­ively named. With those out of the way, all that’s left to say is […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• alchemist,
• alchemy,
• alphonse,
• Anime,
• antagonist,
• bradley,
• edward,
• elric,
• full metal,
• fullmetal,
• fullmetal alchemist,
• fullmetal alchemist brotherhood,
• god,
• hawkeye,
• hoenheim,
• magic,
• mustang,
• rockbell,
• war,
• winry