Fol­low­ing up the crit­ic­ally acclaimed and astound­ingly bril­liant The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was never going to be an easy pro­spect but with a timbre shift sure to cement Mamoru Hosoda’s role as a world-class dir­ector, Sum­mer Wars proves to be a worthy suc­cessor both cre­at­ively and aes­thet­ic­ally. Tak­ing the fluidity […]

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• Anime,
• computers,
• dennou coil,
• lain,
• mamoru hosoda,
• movie,
• review,
• shinohara,
• summer,
• summer wars,
• takashi murakami,
• the girl who leapt through time,
• virtual,
• wars,
• yoshiyuki sadamoto

There is a spa­cious fifty minutes to each epis­ode of Katanagatari  —  enough time for sweep­ing, epic tales befit­ting of the pecu­liar art style and set­ting within feudal Japan. Dis­ap­point­ing then that each epis­ode has enough con­tent for ten minutes which is writ­ten for twenty four then stretched tor­tur­ously out to fifty. Util­ising every […]

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• 2 episode taste test,
• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• feudal,
• japan,
• katana,
• katanagatari,
• martial arts,
• ninja,
• review,
• shounen,
• sword,
• sword story,
• swordsman,
• talking

Leav­ing little to the ima­gin­a­tion, Baka to Test to Shokanju fea­tures pre­cisely what the title spe­cifies. The first three epis­odes are a grab bag of dif­fer­ent influ­ences that run the gamut from the quick fire rowdi­ness of Excel Saga to the fantasy-high school blend of Maburaho, suc­cess­fully mix­ing them all into a […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• akihisa,
• Anime,
• baka,
• baka to test to shokanju,
• battle,
• contest,
• idiot,
• minami,
• mizuki,
• review,
• school,
• summoned beasts,
• tests,
• yuji

Another series another las­ci­vi­ous story seed, this time with the form­a­tion of a high school under­wear club by a girl smit­ten with all things under­wear. Rolling one’s eyes and plough­ing into the first three epis­odes of Chu-Bra!! it becomes increas­ingly appar­ent that this isn’t the naughty teen­age giggle parade that is expected […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• bra,
• chu,
• chu-bra,
• embarrassed,
• haruka,
• hiroki,
• nayu,
• panties,
• review,
• school,
• undergarments,
• underwear,
• uniform,
• yaku

When one’s premise is a magical fuel present only in breast milk and requires young chil­dren to extract this via the most obvi­ous method avail­able, hav­ing an cen­sored ver­sion avail­able on all but the most lib­eral of tele­vi­sion chan­nels seems counter-productive. The uncensored ver­sion fills in a lot of the gaps that […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• breasts,
• icon,
• milk,
• qwaser,
• religion,
• review,
• russian,
• seikon no qwaser,
• soma,
• stigmata,
• the qwaser of stigmata