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Overflow
نام انیمه: Overflow
نام انیمه: おーばーふろぉ
ژانر: Romance, Erotica
تاریخ پخش: زمستان 2020
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمتها: 8 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 3 دقیقه
منبع: Manga
استودیو: Studio Hokiboshi
کارگردان: Ishigura Rei
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
Kazushi Sudou is a university student who is visited by his two childhood friends, the sisters Ayane and Kotone Shirakawa. When Ayane discovers that Kazushi not only forgot to buy her pudding but is also using her special lotion in the bath, she decides to take revenge and join Kazushi in his bath along with Kotone. Will the perverted Kazushi be able to remain indifferent to them both?
Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos
نام انیمه: Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos
نام انیمه: 別冊オリンピア・キュクロス
نام انیمه: Extra Olympia Kyklos
ژانر: Comedy, Slice of Life, Sports, Historical, Seinen
تاریخ پخش: بهار 2020
تعداد قسمت ها: 24 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 5 دقیقه
وضعیت: تمام شده
کارگردان: Fujii Ryou
استودیو: Gosay Studio
منبع: Manga
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دمیتریوس، یک نقاش گلدان مهربان و خجالتی در یونان باستان که از رقابت و ورزش بیزار است، روزی مجبور میشود تا یک بازی برای رقابت با شهردار شهر مجاور برای نجات دهکدهاش درست کند. هنگامی که درون یک گلدان بزرگ خارج کارگاهش مخفی شده بود، یک رعدوبرق گلدانی که دمیتریوس در آن بود را میگیرد و به توکیوی ژاپن، هنگام المپیک تابستانۀ 1964 میبرد.
One Piece - Episode 937 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 937 [Review]
The prison rumble continues. Armadillo man is upset about Hyogoro downing his good buddy alpaca man and whips out two pistols to start blasting. Luffy jumps in to scoop up the elder and dispatch the armadillo man with a massive punch. Hyogoro informs Luffy that what he calls haki is known as ryuo here in Wano. Luffy continues to put the beat down on more goons and practice with his haki as Hyogoro offers advice, but he finds himself frustrated at a lack of progress.
Back in Ebisu, Yasu is going around making quite the impression on everyone. He mentions Kinemon in relation to the rebellion, leaving Shinobu and Kanjuro shocked. Even though the villains know about the tattoo and the plan, Yasu tries to remain upbeat that more will join their cause regardless. He then sets out about town tending to the sick, providing food for the hungry, and checking in on the elderly. When the Straw Hats press Shinobu and Kanjuro to reveal who exactly Yasu is, they admit they don't know and were afraid to be rude and ask him. Usopp and Nami ask an elderly woman in the village who reveals that Toko is his daughter and she sends him money from the capital. He in turn spreads as much as he can to others in the community and eats very little for himself. We also get a brief moment of Toko dreaming of her father giving her a piggyback ride while she sleeps next to Zoro.
Back in the prison pit, Luffy is frustrated by his lack of progress. He has fought until nightfall and while he has won every encounter he doesn't feel that his haki is up to snuff yet. He and Hyogoro are surrounded by guards watching them, but when Hyogoro asks why he's so consumed with beating Kaido the future king of the pirates knocks out the guards with a quick haki burst. He explains his ambitions to be king just as Raizo arrives… inside Caribou's cloak?! It turns out Raizo had the keys to Caribou's cuffs and freed him.
Caribou grovels at Luffy's feet to join his crew. Luffy agrees so long as Caribou has really changed, which surprises everyone (Caribou most of all). Hyogoro pledges himself to Luffy as well and Raizo reveals that Hyogoro was a big yakuza boss back in the day. Hyogoro mentions that there are four other identical prison pits full of people jailed for treason against Orochi. Luffy deduces that if they free them, the prisoners will probably join their fight. Excited at this new plan, they steal a big pot of red bean soup and dig in.
Meanwhile, the Big Mom and Chopper gator-riding crew are getting closer to the prison. Charlotte Linlin is starving and can't wait to have delicious red bean soup. Kiku speaks kindly to her as they travel, but Chopper is terrified that Big Mom will turn on them at any moment – as is the reptile they're riding who is worried Big Mom might start gnawing any second. We get a final shot of Luffy licking his face clean of soup before the To Be Continued card flashes and draws the ep to a close.
Another phenomenal episode of Wano. This episode had a great mix of emotional beats and dynamic combats, with a hint of what's to come tacked on at the end. Yasu is such a fascinating character and watching his earnest attempts at helping others through the difficulties of Orochi's rule is very heartwarming. A good chunk of screen time is spent lingering on Yasu speaking with the elderly, feeding the hungry, lifting newborn babies, and it all does a great job of investing the audience in him as a character. With someone like Orochi stomping around doing all the most evil things all the time and creating nothing but anguish for the people of Wano, it's nice to have the counter-balance of Yasu providing a glimmer of hope through uncertain times.
The visual fidelity was once again outrageously good. The scenes of Luffy and Hyogoro leaping around using haki were all visceral and paced very well, with plenty of jaw dropping environmental destruction and kinetic dashing through the prison arena. The absolute show-stopper of a punch Luffy delivered to armadillo man was beyond excellent. That ripple of flesh rolling across his face like a shockwave was superb, I felt that one in my bones.
I also wanted to make particular note of a few highlights. At one point Hyogoro is recounting prior events and giving a bit of exposition for the audience. During the scene he kneels down and the events are “projected” behind him like a literal projector is just off-screen, complete with his shadow outlined against the film reel. It's a really brilliant flourish to spice up a somewhat standard flashback, and ties in very well with Hyogoro being an older character. Having this sort of classic film-style display for an aged veteran of sorts helps underscore how much older he is and being from a bygone era, as well as tapping into the chanbara/classic film vibe that Wano has going for it.
Lastly, Ikue Ōtani had me rolling this episode. When Chopper does this little scream/squeal as Big Mom is looming over him, she has this truly hilarious deliver that has an almost chirp-like quality. Just hearing her do that improved my day tenfold.
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive
Princess Connect! Re:Dive
نام انیمه: Princess Connect! Re:Dive
نام انیمه: プリンセスコネクト！Re:Dive
ژانر: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Gourmet
تاریخ پخش: بهار 2020
تعداد قسمت ها: 13 قسمت
وضعیت: تمام شده
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 23 دقیقه
منبع: Game
استودیو: CygamesPictures
زیرنویس فارسی و انگلیسی دارد
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
شخصیت اصلی درحالی چمشاش رو باز میکنه در یه مکان ناشناسه و هیچ خاطره ای از گذشتش و اینکه چطور اینجا اومده نداره، ولی وقتی دختری ناشناس رو ملاقات میکنه متوجه میشه که داره به کشف رازی بزرگ نزدیک میشه.
Nihon Chinbotsu 2020
Nihon Chinbotsu 2020
نام انیمه: Nihon Chinbotsu 2020
نام انیمه: 日本沈没2020
نام انیمه: Japan Sinks: 2020
نام انیمه: El Hundimiento de Japón: 2020
ژانر: Drama, Sci-Fi
تاریخ پخش: تابستان 2020
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمتها: 10 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 25 دقیقه
منبع: Novel
استودیو: Science SARU
کارگردان: Yuasa Masaaki
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
مدتی بعد مسابقات المپیک 2020 توکیو، زلزلهای شدید ژاپن رو لرزوند. در حین آشفتگی، خواهر و برادری به اسمهای آیومو و گو تومو به همراه خانواده چهارنفرهشون از شهر فرار کردن. مجمع الجزایر ژاپنی در حال غرق شدن بودن و این آشفتگی بیرحمانه، خانواده رو تعقیب میکرد. فرو رفته تو شرایط طاقت فرسا، زندگی و مرگ، و وداع. با این وجود این خواهر و برادر به آینده باور دارن و قدرت زنده ماندن رو با نهایت تلاش به دست میارن و...
خلاصه داستان (منبع)
The Mutou family leads a peaceful life: Kouichirou works at a construction site and his wife Mari is returning from an overseas trip. Their daughter Ayumu has just finished her track practice while their son Gou is playing video games at home. However, life as they know it is flipped upside down when a calamitous earthquake strikes the entire Japanese archipelago—obliterating the face of the country in an instant.
With society crumbling around them and their nation gradually sinking into the ocean, the Mutou family must band together to survive the catastrophe. Treading the near-apocalyptic setting, they struggle not only to stay alive, but also to learn the difficulty of coping with loss.
Nihon Chinbotsu 2020 is an original net animation and one of many works based on Sakyo Komatsu's award-winning 1973 disaster novel of the same name. The ten episodes were released exclusively on Netflix in July 2020.
من:
هی روزگار
چقدر این انیمه دپرسناک و ناراحت کننده است.
هر مرگی که اتفاق می افته اینجا، خیلی ناراحت کننده است.
Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited
Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited
نام انیمه: Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited
نام انیمه: 富豪刑事 Balance:UNLIMITED
نام انیمه: The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED
ژانر: Mystery, Detective, Action
تاریخ پخش: بهار 2020
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمتها: 11 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 23 دقیقه
منبع: Novel
استودیو: CloverWorks
کارگردان: Itou Tomohiko
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
Daisuke Kanbe, a man of extraordinary wealth, is assigned to the Modern Crime Prevention Headquarters as a detective. It is there that he gets partnered with Haru Katou, a humane detective who values justice above all. The two are polar opposites, and their morals clash time and time again. Haru despises Daisuke for using monetary wealth to solve cases, as he believes that money isn't everything. The two will have to combine their efforts, however, to solve the mysteries that are coming their way.
Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel, Fugou Keiji. The live action TV drama by Kyouko Fukada aired in 2006 with two seasons.
خلاصه داستان (منبع)
یک کاراگاه با داراییهای استثنایی، دایسوکه کانبه، به پایگاه جنایات مدرن ابلاغ شده است، جایی که تنها افرادی که برای کلانتری شهر دردسر ساختهاند فرستاده میشوند. در آنجا، دایسوکه همکار هارو کاتو میشود. هارو از روشهای اصولی دایسوکه سرخورده میشود و بر این باور است که همه چیز به پول نیست. معماها چالش برانگیزی در مقابل این دو کاراگاه قرار میگیرند و آنها برای حل آن باید با یکدیگر همکاری کنند.
One Piece - Episodes 919 ~ 921 [Review]
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive - Episode 13 [Review]
“In which nothing beyond the immediate threat is resolved.”
After 13 beautifully animated episodes, we have reached the end of the series--though this episode feels more like one set in the middle than the final climax.
At the end of the last episode, Pecorine, Karyl, and Kokkoro were whisked away by Labyrista when they found themselves unable to defeat the giant shadow monster that had been unleashed on the castle town. Awaking inside what appears to be the castle, Kokkoro stumbles across a painting which shows Pecorine is (unsurprisingly at this point) the literal princess of this kingdom. Soon Pecorine herself shows up and reveals her backstory to Kokkoro (and a hidden Karyl)--basically explaining that when she went on a journey to understand the plight of her people first hand, everyone in the kingdom had their memories about her wiped and a usurper took her place.
This explains why she is so touchy-feely with the guild--and why she drags them along on adventure after adventure. She is desperate to make strong, interpersonal connections so that those dear to her won't forget her again. And given that she has no idea how everyone was made to forget her, this is an understandable fear.
This also explains her warped view on reality--why she insists on seeing the world as a better place than it actually is. It's only by believing in something that it can become true. And because she has lived that way, it's not only her guild which she's made connections with. The common man loves her far more than the royalty at this point--to the point where they antagonize the city guard in an attempt to help her. In a very real way, she has become the people's princess. In the end, she recognizes this. While she may have lost her old family, she has made a new one that loves her just as much.
Karyl, over the course of the series, has been torn between loyalty to her master (i.e., Pecorine's usurper) and her new friends in the guild. It's always been a matter of when she'd have to choose between the two. What's interesting is that, in this episode, she makes the hidden third choice: to die.
Knowing Pecorine's tragic backstory and knowing that her master is responsible makes it clear to her how torn her loyalties are. She's reached a perfect balance--she can't choose one over the other. If she fights the giant monster and destroys it, then she'll be betraying her master. If she simply stays out of the fight and lets it kill Pecorine and the others, she'll be betraying them.
Thus the only thing she can think to do is to fight the monster alone and die--leaving neither side betrayed. The trick is, however, she is not allowed to make such a choice--not when Pecorine is around. What Karyl fails to realize is that the interpersonal connections she's built with the guild are a two-way street. Unlike her master who demands loyalty and gives nothing back, the guild loves Karyl for who she is--not what she can do for them. They wouldn't sacrifice her for any reason. And this display of affection is enough to get her to move directly against her master's wishes in the heat of the moment and defeat the monster alongside her friends--well, once Yuuki shows up anyway.
But while the monster is destroyed and a bit of character growth is had by Pecorine and Karyl, this doesn't feel like the final, climactic episode of the series--honestly, it feels like a normal (though important) episode. In last episode's review, I listed the plethora of unanswered questions the story has set up. Among the twelve I listed, only a single one was answered in this episode.
And that's the problem: the series as a whole feels like a prologue or perhaps the first half of an opening chapter to a bigger story. In the grand scheme of things, very little that has been set up is resolved. Yuuki still lacks the vast majority of his memories, Karyl is still torn between her master and her friends, and Pecorine is still an outcast princess with an evil usurper taking her place. Worse yet, even at this point, I'm still confused by basics like the rules of this fantasy world itself and the proper nouns the characters throw about without explanation (“Princess Knight,” “Re:Dive,” etc.).
In a lot of ways, this anime feels like a trip to nowhere. Now, was the trip a fun one with colorful characters, good humor, and astounding animation? Sure. I just wish there had been a destination--a complete story that tied everything together. Instead, what we're left with is a six-hour-long advertisement telling us to play the smartphone game if we want any answers--a game not released in English, I might add. And I'm not gonna lie: that sucks.
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One Piece - Episodes 919 ~ 921 [Review]
Episode 919
We open on Nami and Shinobu's castle infiltration mission where they are on the run from the guards. Nami tries to mew mew mew like a cat to throw them off their trail and shushes Shinobu by cutting off her air supply. Blades through the ceiling let them know that the guards are not having it and they escape onto the roof. Shinobu reveals her fear of sharp objects to Nami before waxing poetic about a mature woman's beauty being as deadly as a weapon. As the wind picks up Shinobu uses her kite jutsu and they soar away across the city. Nami reveals that during their spying she saw the name of the port for the arms shipment, a critical piece of intel.
As they float over the city they notice a large number of young women lined up in the streets. It turns out they are waiting for Sanji's cooking, and Nami makes her feelings on that known with a ~_~ face. It turns out that Ladies Love Cook SanJi, and he's beaming with pride as they eat it up. In the shadows, a shady group glowers at Sanji for muscling in on their turf.
We cut back to the prison labor camps to see an old man named Hyo begin horribly mistreated by the prison staff. Additionally, Luffy and Kid engage in various feats of strength. They are running full tilt carrying cartoonishly oversized blocks of stone to earn more and more food, much to the dismay of the guards who realize they are this powerful while wearing the sea prison stone cuffs. They are rewarded with piles of food which they gobble up in short order.
Soon Dobon the hippo man arrives, demanding to know which prisoner ate all the food in the back. The guards bring out Dynamax Luffy and Kid who are swollen from how much they've eaten. The duo perform a Kirby-style inhalation and exhale the pounds away, with Kid specifying that in fact Everybody Poops – I guess he felt that was revelatory.
Dobon complains about the amount they ate, to which they reply that they worked hard and used the scrip system to earn the food. Ah, but that was supposed to be Dobon's food you see, and he's going to punish them regardless. He swallows them both in his enormous mouth to slice them up, and a scuffle ensues in the hippo's mouth that manages to be Man vs Man, Man vs Self, and Man vs Nature conflict all at once. Kid and Luffy emerge victorious, scoop up Hyo to carry him to safety, and become heroes to the prisoners. Our old friend the To Be Continued card arrives and the episode draws to a close.
I enjoyed myself quite a bit with this episode. The visual standouts were not as frequent, but there was a lot of ground to cover and it can be hard to squeeze in those moments with the exposition and setup. Still, it had its moments. The scene with the cherry blossoms surrounding Shinobu complete with sparkling shojo bubbles was a delight. Plus the brief sequence of Luffy and Kid tossing gigantic stone blocks onto the boat was impressive and definitely the biggest *pop* in the episode.
I think the real joy in 919 is all the little characterful flourishes. when Nami is trying to pass off her and Shinobu's intrusion as a cat's meow and they are discovered, Akemi Okamura's scream includes a sort of cat-like “meow” in her performance, a brilliant addition that she pulled off expertly. This arc exudes a lot of Fist of the North Star/Hokuto no Ken energy – which I am 1000000% here for – between the football armored and be-mohawked goons, the very wasteland warrior vibe of Queen, King, and Jack, and Wano's vast stretches of post-industrial wasteland. The extra oomph on that front is Luffy calling Kid “Jaggy” which cannot help but bring to mind Kenshiro's biker Zoidberg brother Jagi.
The real star of the show is Dobon though. Dobon is one of the most absurd character designs in the series and Quintessentially One Piece™ from the comedic beats of no one being able to understand him with his mouth closed to the sheer absurdity of it being a part of his fighting style. Not to mention that his consumption of Luffy and Kid acts as a not-so-subtle “in the belly of the beast” allegory for their current status in prison.
As always, Oda incorporates an undercurrent of the systemic cruelty of the world amongst all the more overt symbolism. Luffy and Kid have not done anything wrong – they worked and earned the food in exactly the manner they were told to. But it was never about “earning” the food, not really. The system was designed to be overwhelmingly cruel and punitive, they weren't supposed to be that strong. So because of that they get punished anyway. Always nice seeing guys like this get walloped by our rubbery lead.
Episode 920
Sanji continues serving food to the ladies of Wano. Just as Franky begins berating Sanji for not cooking enough spicy food to attract samurai, three goons arrive who start messing with Sanji and his customers. They identify themselves as being from the Kyoshiro family and claim that this is their turf. Sanji continues to serve food anyway, giving a bowl of soba to a young girl named Otoko. In perfect villainous mook fashion they knock the soba from her hands and spill it on the floor. She begins laughing and crying at the same time, clearly upset by this.
At the sight of wasted food, Sanji goes beast mode and attacks them with a solid spinning bird kick. They pull out sword, but no metal can withstand the hairy leg of the culinary Straw Hat and it shattered beneath his heel. Franky cannot help but join in and delivers a titanic Frnosuke Iron Suplex on another goon. Sanji forces the goon to eat the food off the ground, and Usopp recalls having met Otoko previously at a shrine. Sanji prepares her a fresh bowl of soba with what he has left. He weeps and says she has to return to work then mentions the approach of Oiran's procession. An elder woman arrives to describe Oiran Komurasaki to the Straw Hats, and notifies Robin that she has been summoned to Shogun Orochi's palace.
Just before the episode draws to a close we have a brief scene at the labor camp. Luffy is in full beef mode cracking stones with a pick as Hyo comes to thank him for saving him from Dobon. Luffy tells him it's no big deal and even hands over a clutch of the food scripts he's secured. Finally we see a glimpse of the main road once more and Oiran approaching before the To Be Continued ushers us out.
A delightful episode all around. Sanji is a character who can be difficult to root for at times, so when we get to see him in his element – namely cooking for others and protecting the innocent against bullies – that is a treat. Not to mention the scene with Franky getting excited to deliver an enormous aerial suplex the likes of which you usually only see in fighting games. I wholeheartedly approve. Yet again the visual flair of Wano is breathtaking to behold. The star of the show was Oiran's procession, from the cinematography to the closeups on her various jewelry/accoutrements. That penultimate shot of her in the road where the buildings and streets are vibrant pastels in all manner of hues while the crowds of Wano's people are empty faceless masses of waving limbs. It's another deft use of imagery to underscore the reality of Wano beneath its gorgeous veneer.
The facial work is another highlight this episode. The slow motion grin as Franky suplexes the Kyoshiro goon, his puffy cheeked laughter, and the exaggerated “OIRAN? KAMURO?” faces brought a huge smile to my face. Sanji's red-eyed glare as he told the goon “I need you to finish your food, dear customer,” was equally stellar. And of course there was plenty of Robin laughing and smiling, which improves any episode exponentially.
Episode 921
Toko rejoins the procession and Oiran mentions that she was worried about her. We are show a clutch of three rather gnarly looking dudes who are weeping at the sight of Oiran and clutching daggers followed by a sweeping shot over Komurasaki's garish attire.
Back at the labor camp, Luffy's work is interrupted by the return of Caribou. Any illusions that Caribou had become less creepy or disturbing in the time since we've last seen him are immediately dashes as he begins pestering our hero for food with his tongue wagging freely in the air offending both God and man alike. A short flashback to Fishman Island reminds us of Caribou's various misdeeds before we return to have Luffy tell him to get to work dude.
Back at the capital, Oiran's procession continues apace and we get an extended flashback related to one of her upset suitors. It turns out that she came to him in secret and confessed her love. She could be with him if only for her current contract! Of course this spurs him to trade away or sell off the entirety of his possessions to pay off her current contract with the Shogun. He shows up to the pleasure hall asking for her to come join him and he is laughed at by everyone, including Komurasaki. He is beaten for being an old lecherous pervert and sent away in shame.
In the present time once again we see these suitors have been taken out by the samurai guarding her processional. She is beaming so brightly it forces people in the crowd to avert their gaze, and she sends a deft stinger of a line at the cowering perverts saying, “I don't like poor people…” as a final mark of shame.
This episode's flashback is one of the most interesting in Wano. The way it frames these men as victims at first but slowly reveals their horrible natures is really spectacular. In a sense they have been taken advantage of by Oiran, yet we see how cruel, petty, and ruthless they were, and it recharacterizes how we see her character – a preview of things to come for sure. The most interesting visual is a cutaway shot we briefly get of a dead insect crawling with ants picking over its corpse during all this. To my mind it represented the way so many had taken advantage of Wano's “corpse” in the years since the fall of the Kozuki, men just like the ones Oiran was teaching a lesson to.
I have to say the real joy – if you can call it that – in this episode is Masaki Terasoma's performance with Caribou. He absolutely knocks his scenes out of the part with his outrageously evil delivery. When Caribou says “I beg of you” to Luffy I was both laughing and cringing at the same time, a testament to the skill of Masaki's delivery. It can be hard to ride the line between unnerving and hilarious and he manages to expertly deliver here.
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 - Episode 12 [Review]
This week, Kaguya-sama: Love is War closes out its stellar sophomore season with a finale that's equal parts hilarious and emotional. Episode 12's first two segments revolve around the loss of Kaguya's flip phone, which held a treasure trove of photos she'd taken since joining the student council. When her phone is accidentally broken during the taking of a commemorate photo, Kaguya is crestfallen to discover that there's no way to retrieve all her pictures. Hoping to make the best of a bad situation, she finally upgrades to a smartphone and assures herself that its top-tier functions will prove useful in capturing new memories. Fortunately, now that she has a smartphone, she's able to join LINE, prompting Miyuki to create a private group for the student council (which he'd previously held off on doing to prevent Kaguya from feeling excluded). Much to Kaguya's delight, the other members instantly begin flooding the group with all the photos they've collected during their time together, thereby ensuring that those memories will live on. As the narrator concludes, if the memories you share with others are truly precious, the people with whom you share them will want to hold on to them, too.
The final Kaguya-centric story of the season, these two segments seamlessly blend the show's trademark comedy with low-key drama. Although the story mostly portrays Kaguya in a sympathetic light, her devious side still pops up here and there—particularly in her response to the principal wanting Miyuki and Chika to pose as a couple. (Also humorous is how, as sympathetic as Miyuki is to Kaguya's plight, he has serious reservations about being the one to initiate the exchange of LINE IDs, as he believes it would be an admission of love. It's a startling contrast to Kaguya not caring anymore about such things when she so unenthusiastically asks him for his ID first.) While even Kaguya herself seems to realize that the loss of her digital photos isn't hugely important in the grand scheme of things, the show does an effective job of illustrating that one's emotional reactions needn't always be grounded in logic. In Kaguya's eyes, she's suffered a devastating loss—as evidenced by her complete lack of interest in engaging Miyuki in their usual mental jousts. The other members' collective concern and desire to raise Kaguya's spirits serves as touching reminder that despite all the backstabbing, one-upmanship, and general dysfunctionality that colors many of their interactions, this is a group that cares deeply for one another.
After dipping its toes in the drama pool, the show delivers a closing segment that's 100% focused on madcap fun. When Chika forces the gang to play a game that entails pumping air into a balloon until it bursts, none of the participants want to be the one who's up at bat when the thing finally pops. (Since both hands are required to work the pump, Kaguya can't even utilize her new calming ritual.) Even Ishigami, whose recent experience at the sports festival left him with heightened inner courage, is terrified of having the overinflated balloon pop in his face, leading the narrator to conclude that his character arc was pointless. Under intense peer pressure from Chika, Miko eventually inflates the balloon to cartoonish proportions, leaving it primed to burst at any moment. Just as a petrified Kaguya is about to deliver the finishing blow, a well-timed tangerine-based mishap (courtesy of Chika) pops the balloon, resulting in a massive explosion that engulfs the entire academy. As Kaguya and Miyuki stand up and take in all the destruction, they vow to continue their perpetual battle of the minds with renewed vigor.
As Kaguya-sama's zaniest offering in weeks, this season's parting segment is packed to the brim with fast-paced jokes and peppered with shades of self-parody. At several points, setups for epic displays of courage end in characters cowering in fear and opting to pass the burden of bursting the balloon to the other unfortunate participants. Ishigami failing to put his newfound confidence to good use is funny, but Miyuki resolving to take one for the team for Kaguya's sake, only to back down almost instantly, is particularly hilarious. In their attempts to avoid popping the balloon, everyone's most humorous traits are on full display, which serves as a great reminder that no matter how heavy things get, this series will always return to its comedic roots.
A satisfying conclusion to a consistently amazing season, episode 12 fires on all cylinders and leaves us wanting more. Going out on a note that highlights the collective friendship between the student council members rather than Kaguya and Miyuki's ongoing war is a great way to emphasize how much of an ensemble piece the show has organically become throughout the past season. Here's hoping Kaguya and the gang are able to continue their misadventures in animated form—and soon!
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Digimon Adventure: - Episode 4 [Review]
And we're back! An interesting effect of Digimon Adventure:'s “three episode movie premiere” vibe is that the show left us in a decently comfortable place before it took a couple months off due to the global pandemic. So with that initial teaser being all we had to digest, it definitely feels like the ‘real’ show is starting as we return with this fourth episode. There are more characters being introduced, and they're in the Digital World proper now, exploring this lush fantasy land in an adventure closer to the original show's journey. But as it has been since the series kicked off, there are a lot of pointed unknowables in play here, reminding us every step of the way that even if new Digimon looks superficially similar to old Digimon, the old rules don't necessarily still apply.
A big example of that is the question of motivation. As with a lot of alternate-world anime of the bygone era of the 90's, the kids in the OG Digimon were primarily looking for a way to return to their home world. But in this reboot, Taichi and Koshiro jumped into the Digital World mostly intentionally, hoping to find a way to fix the technological issues (a series of blackouts this time around) in their own world. Lost tykes surviving on their own in a hostile environment meant the Digimon kids always worked with their own level of agency, but this new framing makes them come across even more proactive now. The series hasn't really laid out anything about these children being ‘chosen’ yet, but their actions mark them clearly as ‘heroes’, apart from just trying to survive until they stumble across their Digi-destiny.
Though she popped up in a couple of the previous episodes, this one is our formal introduction to Sora, whose characterization so far encapsulates that ‘proactive hero’ style being impressed onto the kids. Some sharp writing here economically characterizes Sora as a responsible person who was buying emergency supplies for the blackout, so luckily she had them with her when she and Taichi need them to survive in the Digital World. And she's an empathetic, caring person, rushing to save Piyomon before she knows the bird is her destined digital partner. So it's easy as viewers to group her in with the boys and their goal of saving Tokyo since they're the only ones who know how. That underscores one of the major driving mysteries at this point in the series, which Taichi and Koshiro both remark on: Why are they the ones who made it into the Digital World and got the power of monster partnership needed to stop those attacking both worlds? It's the most obvious gesture at that concept of ‘destiny’, definitely strengthened by the characters' active desire to figure it out for themselves.
All that talk about the kids' more proactive style leads me to bring up one of the more specific strengths of this new show, and how that ties into that idea of partnership. Taichi, and now Sora in this episode, find themselves getting especially involved in the battles between their partner Digimon and the hostile wild beasts they encounter. The human characters in the original version of the show certainly weren't passive participants in their adventure, but when the monster-battling started there was a tendency to reduce them to the roles of cheerleaders, believing in their partners real hard until they leveled up to win the day. In this version, Taichi's been jumping in to bash monster heads since episode one, and Sora spends more time helping and saving Piyomon this episode than her presumed birdy bodyguard does for her. This nicely integrates the full cast so far into the adventure more, hopefully carving out the path for the whole cast to have active, key roles in the show instead of easily being siloed into human hero and monster-pet job classes.
These are all concepts put forward in service of presumably laying out how the show is going to work now that we're in the series proper, a tone that oddly leads to most of the criticisms I can lob at this episode. Things definitely feel scaled back from the cinematic ambitions of those first three episodes, as we get things like introductory name-text for each new monster advertised on screen, and a just-noticeable uptick in stock footage for things like Agumon's attacks. On the other hand, he also gets a lavish new stock-animation evolution sequence, so there are some nice side-effects to this presentational shift. There are also things like an insert song played during battle that mark this just a bit more clearly as a Sunday morning kids' show than we were led into with those first three episodes. It's not necessarily a bad thing—I love Sunday morning kids' shows—but it is noticeable.
The other noticeable point is a marked visual downgrade. The part of me that understands production schedules knows that this episode was likely completed before the show was decided to be delayed, and its lesser looks are simply the result of being the fourth episode of a series intended to run for quite a while that had a bombastic introductory three. But coming into this as Digimon Adventure:'s triumphant return can undercut its own hype somewhat, especially if you rewatch those first three episodes ahead of it. It certainly doesn't look bad, and it's still light-years ahead of the original anime's visuals, but all the little bits of stock footage and shortcuts add up to it feeling just a bit cheaper than before. Despite being intended as the threatening big baddie showcased this episode, Snimon especially is practically a one-mon slide-show for most of his presence in it.
There are other little issues I can take with some of the story choices. The main one that jumps out is that, ecstatic as I am to see Tentomon again, he does kind of come out of nowhere here. Since the next episode looks to focus at least somewhat on him and Koshiro, I'm hoping we'll get a little more elaboration on their thus-far offscreen meeting. That could be an intentional tease for such future developments, as Digimon Adventure: jumps into serious serial-style storytelling, ending on the twin cliffhangers of Koshiro and his bug-buddy being swallowed by a Whamon and us getting a peek at classic villain Ogremon going after Taichi and Sora. So even with some slight stumbles and downgrades, Digimon still has me delighted to have it back, and extremely hyped to see where it's going next.
Anime – New Episode [30 June 2020]
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Listeners - Episode 8 [Review]
One of the more understated issues with Listeners' episodic storytelling is that, despite spending half a dozen episodes following them, Echo and Mu have remained pretty underdeveloped. They're likable personalities, and can bounce off eachother and the myriad supporting cast well in most scenarios, but besides learning to be more trusting towards eachother they're virtually identical to where they were in the premiere. Consistent character writing's all well and good, but our deuteragonists have had to spend so much time reacting to the wacky rock'n'rollers around them that the audience hasn't gotten much time inside their heads since their pit-stop with the Valentines in episode 3.
Thankfully, “The Real Me” helps remedy that a bit. Following last episode's example, it once again slows the pacing down enough to let the characters actually talk about their feelings and worries, rather than just infodumping. When the pair are suddenly whisked away to Londinium by the charismatic Tommy Walker and all but conscripted into his plan to re-open the gate that supposedly swallowed Jimi Stonefree 10 years ago, potentially bringing their journey to an end, it triggers a good bit of contemplation for Echo and Mu. Echo's conundrum is the simpler of the two – he's realizing he's in love with Mu, and has to pluck up the courage to tell her, or at least ask to stay by her side even after they've found Jimi and unlocked whatever secrets are hiding inside her memories. It's a straightforward conflict that suits such a plain boy, but it's nice to see him doing some real introspection for once and deciding to take action. Mu was the spark that made him admit he wanted more than a life of numb safety, and now he's internalizing that lesson and putting it into practice.
Mu's problems are decidedly heavier. While excited at the prospect of finally meeting her mysterious brother, she's also apprehensive about what it could mean for unlocking her memories. What if the person she was before Echo dug her out of the scrap heap is completely different from who she is now? Would that mean Mu, as she knows herself, would just vanish altogether? It's all very existential, and quite in line with the episodes namesake song, itself a bombastic plea for true understanding of one's self. Mu ultimately decides to step forward and face whoever she really is, but that question becomes way more muddled when somebody else decides to make her who he wants her to be.
Tommy Walker is decidedly different from his namesake, as he doesn't so much as touch a pinball machine this whole episode. And rather than starting a 70's cult he's gone a different route and formed a child army, decking them out in Mod fashion to evangelize in the streets of Londinium when they're not being indoctrinated within the walls of the Watchtower. The audience can tell from a mile away (and from the end of last episode) that he's not on the up-and-up, but it's still interesting to see him subtly push Mu into following his plans, before throwing all subtlety out the window and just drugging her to get her to activate his retrofitted version of Jimi's Equipment and launch a god damn (sound) wave motion cannon into the Earless horde. Rather than trying to bring Jimi back from wherever he's gone, Tommy's decided it's better to just recreate him, whether his vessel wants to or not. Which I guess within the classic rock metaphor means he's trying to create Woodstock '99, and that's perhaps even more evil than the manipulation and genocide.
Jokes about terrible music festivals aside, this episode feels like confirmation that Listeners has found its footing now that's it's done with the broad set-up. Our leads both get important moments that make them feel well-rounded, and the overall conflict feels much better defined than the previous globetrotting. I also have to mention the climactic laser-blast and its accompanying buildup: the lyrics to “All Along The Watchtower” has never felt so ominous, which is saying something. Hopefully this is a sign of what to expect going into the 3rd act of the series.
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Wave, Listen to Me! - Episode 8 [Review]
I never expected to be just as invested in the Makie/Nakahara side-plot as I am in Minare's story, but Wave, Listen to Me! continues, as ever, to surprise me. I originally thought that Makie was only being brought in to serve as The Other Woman to Minare in a love triangle, and while that is still a possible avenue for the show to go down, I'm very happy to see that Wave is committed to making Makie into just as much of a fully fleshed out character as our heroine. Despite being nearly perfect foils for one another, both Makie and Minare have something in common, too: The men in their life are really freaking weird.
As far as Makie's brother Toru is concerned, that weirdness is both utterly strange and legitimately terrifying. The guy looks ripped right from the pages of a seedy crime novel, for one, and he practically oozes a sketchy and dangerous aura. Also, as he reveals in his first interaction with Makie and Nakahara after he and Takarada are released from the hospital, Toru seems to literally suffer from a condition where worrying for his sister causes him to black out and become consumed with a murderous rage. Apparently, one of these black out sessions ended up with one of Makie's bullies being tied up in a bundle of reeds with his own mother and left to drown in a mountain dam.
So Toru isn't exactly going to provide what any reasonable person would call a safe home to live in, and Nakahara almost screws himself over completely when he reveals that Makie has been living with him the entire time Toru was in the hospital. Thankfully, Nakahara's sister has superhuman levels of gossiping power, and she ends up…nagging Toru into submission? The gag isn't the cleanest, but it gives Makie a place in Nakahara's home for now, which can only be a good thing. A part of me still thinks that Makie's domestic drama, as absurd as it has turned out to be, feels like it almost belongs in its own, separate show. Another part of me appreciates the thematic connections the show is weaving in exploring the sometimes darkly comedic struggles that its women share.
Minare has less to deal with, comparatively, since her primary struggle is that all of the collective anxiety that she has suffered over the past few episodes has kept her from coming up with ideas for this week's broadcast. This leads to Kanetsugu coming up with one of the funniest bits the show's done so far, a segment where Minare calls a family member to argue with them on air, which in this case involves bickering with her dad about her name. His first story about the origin of Minare's apparently strange name — He got distracted looking for baby name books and saw it on the cover of a porno mag — is too stupid for even Minare to fully buy at first, but then we get the “for real” version of the story, which is somehow even worse. As her father tells it, he had three extramarital lovers that he dumped in the wake of Minare's birth, and each of them requested that he name his newborn after them, as a token of their memory. When the time came, the three lovers' names got jumbled together in his head: Michiru, Natsuko, and Reiko. The rest is history.
Minare's predictably homicidal reaction is great, but her low-stakes, joke-heavy plot also manages to reinforce the ideas at play in Makie's story. To quote the lovely Mizuho: “See, Miss Minare? Men can bring you great despair, but they can also save your butt, too, at times.” After all, Kanetsugu has Minare's back no matter how stupid things get, Komoto is there to make sure even the sloppiest of rants sounds good on air, and even Kureko can be relied upon to deliver a solid script when Minare needs direction. This week's script is set to be Komoto's last, though, since he's moving on to bigger and better things, though even Minare has to admit that he's been uncharacteristically generous with his work this time around. He's prepared a scene for Minare that involves her trapped alone in the woods, only to meet with a ferocious looking bear…
Aside from recapping the events of Wave's first episode, which we've finally caught up to, there's one more sequence worth discussing in “I Can't Tell You Over the Phone”, a flashback of sorts to a meeting between a young Kanetsugu and the elusive Sissel Komei, who has returned from her overseas work with a passion for working in radio. The scene is decidedly abstract in how it is directed, using post-modern techniques like a sepia tone and dialogue intertitles that establish a much more somber tone than what the rest of Wave usually goes for. She went and saw Monty Python on Kanetsugu's recommendation, and while she got what made them so popular, she's less interested in comedy that makes fun of easy targets; Sissel would much rather establish a brand that draws laughter from jokes reflected back on oneself.
If that philosophy, not to mention her striking resemblance to Minare, wasn't enough to sell the feeling that has drawn Sato Kanetsugu to his new protégé in the present day, Sissel declares that, if she were ever to have a child, she would name them after the word that means “To make laugh”, which is written as 笑わせる. This would normally be romanized as “warawaseru”, though an alternative reading can give you the katakana spelling of ミナレ. “Minare”.
Anime – New Episode [24 June 2020]
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Anime – New Episode [22 June 2020]
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Tower of God - Episode 12 [Review]
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Kakushigoto - Episode 12 [Review]
After weeks of teasing disaster and despair, Kakushigoto finally pulls back the veil on its frame story and delivers a definitive conclusion for its father-daughter saga about manga artistry and dick jokes. Unlike prior episodes, this one takes place entirely in the somber flash-forward starring 18-year-old Hime, and even though it's a slight departure from the story's expected format and tonal variance, it feels appropriate. Kakushigoto has already spent so much time hyping up the mystery of its titular character's fate that there's no way it would've been able to squeeze something satisfying into just a minutes-long epilogue. That doesn't stop the finale from feeling a little bit strange, but on the other hand, we can all be thankful that Kōji Kumeta resisted the temptation to knock over his meticulously-arranged chessboard of character drama for one last spectacular goof. Instead, Kakushi and Hime find closure and a (mostly) secret-free path forward for their family.
Kumeta actually seems kind of embarrassed about how long he ended up stringing the audience along, based on how quickly he reveals all the narrative cards he was hiding. Hime is indeed Kakushi's real daughter. Kakushi himself was actually the illegitimate child. That only mattered because kabuki actors and traditional artists don't get along, apparently. His half-sister sent Hime the house key. His wife was lost at sea, and he could never fully accept that. He gave up on manga because his fans found out and thought that was weird. He's also not dead right now; he's just in a coma. And that's more or less it. All of this comes to light in the first five or so exposition-saturated minutes—more perfunctory than satisfying. The saving grace is that all these answers are pretty mundane and set the stage for the eventual reunion between Hime and her dad. Last-minute twists for the sake of it are difficult to pull off (and to be fair, Kakushigoto does try to pull a pretty big one that we'll get to shortly), so the way these naturally fizzle into the denouement is probably the best course it could have taken.
One issue I do rankle with is the valuation of blood relations, which is broached briefly when Hime's cousin reassures her that Kakushi is her “real” dad, to her vocalized relief. As a staunch appreciator of found families—especially those in some of my favorite anime series—I can't help but critique this small but nonetheless misguided focus on the “legitimacy” of their bond. Kakushi would have still been Hime's dad even if he had found her in a stalk of bamboo. This whole show was about the two of them taking care of each other, working through their problems, and celebrating the triumphs whenever they could, because they love each other. They're family!
The last-minute amnesia twist is also so shamelessly cloying that Kumeta can't help but lampoon himself yet again through the mouthpiece of Tomaruin. If I'm being charitable, I can accept it as symbolic of Kakushi's deep-seated reluctance to see Hime grow up and consequently learn the truth about his former occupation and passion. In reality as in fiction, there's a temptation for fathers in particular to infantilize their daughters. Thus, the key to Kakushi breaking through his amnesia is his acceptance that raising Hime and seeing her grow up into her own person was well worth working through his own discomfort and insecurity. That's both sweet and perceptive, but it's still tacked onto a cheap and cliché dramatic shortcut appended to the final ten minutes of the show.
Unsurprisingly, the tone of this episode is a lot more serious overall compared to its predecessors. However, buried just underneath the surface of the text is some of Kumeta's most quietly acerbic satire to be found in Kakushigoto, surfacing here as if he finally felt freed of the responsibility of sustaining cute father-daughter shenanigans. Most overt is the manner of Kakushi's accident, in which a man who tried to run away from the manga industry ends up hospitalized due to a pallet of manga falling on him. That's some tasty irony, but to take this one step further, the reason the pallet collapses is attributed to someone stealing a copy of Shonen Jump to leak to the internet. Many people (myself included) have at one point justified manga piracy to themselves, but here Kumeta doesn't mince any words about the harm it causes creators. While they might not be falling into conveniently tragic comas, there are plenty of other ways it hurts the people who, as Kakushigoto has frequently pointed out, don't have easy careers to begin with.
This finale in general doesn't paint a flattering portrait of the internet. A combination of tabloid journalism and vitriolic anonymous commenters dealt the final blow to Kakushi's ambitions of making people laugh. Granted, Kakushigoto doesn't (and couldn't) explore this facet with the intensity of something like Gatchaman Crowds, but it's not accidental that Kakushi's recovery—both from amnesia and from his manga block—stems from time spent together with people who care about him. Hime triggers his memories with a decidedly low-tech cardboard box full of musty manuscripts. It's a callback to the boxes her mother left for her, but it also shows the importance of the in-person interpersonal warmth Kakushi has been able to foster in spite of himself.
Ultimately, what works best in this finale is what has always worked best for Kakushigoto: the small and sincere moments shared between people who care about each other amidst their rampant wackiness. Whether it's Hime's classmates banding together for one last detective job, or Kakushi's former assistants dutifully drawing pages for a series that ended years ago, the bonds they've all forged transcend any attempt at secrecy. It adds up to a safe yet satisfying conclusion. Personally, in my heart of hearts, I'm always going to hold Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei as the paradigm of Kōji Kumeta manga and adaptations, but Kakushigoto was a nice change of pace and a relaxing companion for stressful times. I look forward to whatever Kumeta moves onto next with a mixture of anticipation and fear for the unmined depths of pun-making he can still unearth.
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Listeners - Episode 12 [Review]
Here we have it, the big finale of Listeners, and like any sci-fi action series made after 2000, it's got to go out on a big emotional confrontation where the fate of the world hinges on magical robot powers that let enemies and allies alike understand eachother for the first time. At least this time the robot magic is also tied to music, which is actually a pretty good vehicle for facilitating empathy and one of the few times the show has managed to harmonize its musical aesthetic with its broader themes. Still, at this point it definitely feels like the story going through the motions of what's expected for it. There are still some buried gems in the dialogue – Roz gets probably the best line of the whole show when Denka starts to call Echo the second-coming of Jimi: “It's nothing so grand. All he did was express what was in his heart, and the world chose all by itself to be moved by it.” It's a perfect encapsulation about the act of making music, how it can be at once personal and powerfully external, and I came out of the climax really wishing those feelings had really been at the center of this story and conflict.
As is, Listeners' conclusion mostly serves as an object lesson in spoiled potential. There are multiple monologues and speeches during Mu and Echo's big confrontation that try to tie a bow on the questions of understanding, hope, and love that have been thrown around across the show's runtime, but through most of them I kept asking “wait, is that what you were trying to be about?” as the show seemed to self-assuredly wrap up on the sentiment of not labeling others and reaching out to learn who they really are. It's certainly not a bad moral to build your show around, but through the sprawling, cluttered stories Listeners has told that only ever felt like one of its many philosophical toys it would bring out when it wanted to add weight to its rock'n'roll robot dystopia.
And then there's Track 13, which makes up the back-half of this finale so we can double up on Beatles references, and tries to be a happy epilogue where Humans and Earless now live in harmony and everyone gets a new beginning, but also serves to throw in two very random twists that I cannot wrap my head around. The first is easily the dumbest, with the reveal that Lyde and Richie were alive the whole time and just off camera some where. It's a bizarre joke to end Nir's arc with, and pulls the rug out of what was one of the more emotionally effecting beats in the whole story. I get they didn't want to leave Nir alone and mourning when everyone else gets a happy ending, but there had to be a better way to go about it.
The other twist comes in the form of that elf looking kid in the review image, who looks so much like a fusion of Echo and Mu I initially thought that what they were. But the final post-credits scene assures us that our protagonists are alive and distinct, going on yet another adventure together, and they certainly haven't aged enough to have a kid either. Going by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bit in the climax I've got to assume that's the new form of Listeners, now that Mu's own personality has split off entirely, and I guess they get to start a new life coexisting with humans just like the other Earless. If that is the case, that's a real baffling way to conclude an already underdeveloped storyline, and making the delivery so vague just leaves me scratching my head rather than soaking in the good vibes of your happy ending. In all, these final scenes are just a strange, discordant note to go out on for the series.
So that's where I stand on the finale, but what about Listeners as a whole? Well...ok. I have made my fair share of musical puns and metaphors throughout Listeners' run, and I'm proud of every last terrible one of them, but there's a particular comparison I've been trying to hold off on until the show could play out its tracklist. It's not a damning comparison, nor a particularly kind one altogether, but having finished the show I think it's entirely fitting. Plus the show starts with an Oasis reference and ends on TWO Beatles name drops, so really it's inviting this:
Listeners is the Be Here Now of anime.
If you've watched this show for this long I assume that comparison makes sense to you, but for those who only know Oasis from the Eden of the East OP, Be Here Now is the band's 3rd full-length album and widely considered the bomb that took them from the biggest name in rock music to a faded memory of the mid-90's. While on the whole it's not a terrible album, it's a work defined by pretentious of grandiosity being undercut by a vapid, vacuous lack of real sentiment; an LP that intends to be profound but in the end feels too soupy and disjointed to achieve it. It's also littered with an embarrassing amount of Beatles references that only serve to remind you of much better songs you could be listening to instead of “Magic Pie.” And I don't even like The Beatles that much.
In much the same way, Listeners feels like a show too smothered by its influences and inspirations to ever say anything of its own. For all that it's slathered in broad and deep cuts of rock history, it ends up feeling like a cover version of its obvious sci-fi anime forebears, and only rarely manages to pull something unique from its mix of mech and music. As much as seeing anime-tastic versions of iconic musicians tickled my brain, it also left me wanting in a big way when it came down to what the show wanted to say. What made so many of the musical acts that Listeners name-drops so memorable was that their art had a sharp, personal, often intentionally counterculture sentiment behind it, and that never really shows up here. In the end it's not a bad show – the stories are mostly entertaining, and if you get a kick out of rock history in-jokes there's plenty to be found to amuse you – but I left wanting something, anything more.
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Wave, Listen to Me! - Episode 12 [Review]
So this is how Wave, Listen to Me! ends: Not with a bang…but a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido! Yes, dear viewers, the show opted to end the season in a surprisingly grand fashion, showcasing everyone on the MRS team at their best as they work together to use the power of radio to unite the island and bring some peace of mind in times that are both literally and metaphorically darker than anyone expected. This isn't about tragedy, or death, and it doesn't even feel like a cheap grab at the real world earthquake disaster that is still a fresh wound in the minds of the whole Japanese populace. It's just a simple story with stakes that are a little bit bigger than normal, and it's all about how radio is a tool that can be used for truly extraordinary purposes when the time calls for it.
So, with those lofty and emotional ambitions established, how on earth did “I Want to Convey It To You” end up as such a letdown of a finale for an otherwise stellar and refreshing series? I'd seen rumblings that the season was going for something of an anime original conclusion already, mind you, so I was prepared for Wave to maybe pass over a couple of plot threads on its way to putting a bow on what might be its only run of episodes. Don't get me wrong, either, as an individual morsel of calculated pathos, “I Want to Convey It to You” works well enough, and if this was the penultimate chapter of the season or something I'm sure it would go down nicely. As the show's final and theoretically most emphatic statement of purpose, though? This episode is weak sauce, man, there's no way around it, even if this isn't anime original material.
My misgivings are all tied up in the way the episode both seems determined to address all of the plot threads its laid out across the past eleven episodes, while simultaneously failing to do anything remotely interesting with any of them. Take Makie for example: At the beginning of the episode, we see that she has actually been using the alias “Joker Stonsky” to work as a contributor to a radio program at HCB, which I presume is a rival station to MRS, which is significant because…well, I'm not sure, to be honest. There are a lot of things to infer, naturally, mainly to do with the romantic rivalry she shares with Minare, and she outright says that she's doing the work as an act of rebellion via independence, something that is hers and hers alone. That's all well and good, but I'm flummoxed as to why the show would include a plot thread like this in such a half-assed manner, only to completely forget about it once the earthquake hits. After that, Makie and Nakahara's cute bonding gets routed into turning Voyager into a makeshift soup kitchen for locals. Again, it's fine, but it all feels decidedly random.
Then there's Mizuho, whose angst over Kureko's imminent departure has been a stopping point across the last few episodes. Here, we get a bit more texture when we learn that a lecture of Kureko's is what got Mizuho interested in being a station assistant director to begin with, and then there's lots of her fretting over whether to pursue her “dream” of working with Kureko on her own show. After weeks of kind-of building this character arc up, the climax that Wave gives us is…Mizuho working up the nerve to just ask Kureko to work with her, which he says he will in his own curmudgeonly way. So, yeah, an incredibly minor crisis was capped off with an incredibly minor resolution.
”Okay,” I can hear you all saying, “Sure, but Wave was never the best at juggling a bunch of plot threads at once, especially in its back half. Surely, though, Minare and Kanetsugu get a worthy send off?” That, my poor hypothetical reader, is where I will have to disappoint you the most, because they really don't. Now, there is good stuff here, once the cool and collected Kanetsugu has to walk the panicky Minare through the routine emergency broadcast procedures. I liked the way Minare has to balance her anxious word vomit with her responsibilities as someone with broadcasting capability in an earthquake/blackout emergency. I liked how Minare didn't suddenly fall into her destiny as The Ultimate Local Hokkaidan Entertainment Personality when the chips were down; Chishiro had to step in to provide the measure of genuine authority that Minare doesn't quite project yet. I even kind of liked Kanetsugu turning on his Hardass Mode to keep Minare functional when things got crazy, (though someone maybe ought to let him know that it's 2020, man, and Minare doesn't need to have “balls” to be capable).
As a one-and-done after-school special sort of affair, this stuff works. It just makes for a lame finale to a whole season's worth of stories and development. We don't get any of the program's wacky visualization, we don't get to hear Minare interacting with her audience in a more personalized and non-earthquake-focused manner, and hell, the scene doesn't even work terribly well as a signifier that Minare has taken her first big step into a weird new career, even if it just the first of many. The best the show can do is have Mianre reflect on how amazing and powerful radio is at, like, bringing people together, man, and that she's more determined than ever to make her mark. We get not one, but two different treacly pop-song montages over scenes of the Hokkaidans making it through the night, and of Minare committing herself to radio once and for all.
I don't know how else to say this: It's corny as hell. Wave, Listen to Me! has been a lot of things over its twelve-episode run. It's been brash, bizarre, inventive, oddly touching, and frequently hilarious, sure, but more than anything, it's been honest. No matter how wacky or warped Minare's worldview painted things, this show, to me, has been about empathizing with Minare, and enjoying the ups-and-downs that come from starting a new and unpredictable chapter in one's life (oh, and bear fights! Wave has been about bear fights, too). The point is, for all of the things this finale did well, it's the first time I felt I could see all of the turning cogs and dancing strings holding the story together. It felt manipulative, albeit in a somewhat muted sense, and dishonest. Does that negate all of the wonderful things the series did in its best moments? Hardly. It's just a bummer of a note to go out on.
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Ouran High School Host Club - Episodes 7-8 [Review]
I like when shows like Ouran High School Host Club, which revel in playing with their stock genre setups, arrive at the ‘obligatory’ swimsuit episode, since I get to revel right back by calling attention to it. So what better joy can there be here for me than Ouran actually having two swimsuit episodes, in a row, which line up directly with this week's review block? At last, the multi-episode synergy benefits the analysis of the reviewer! What's that, they're actually wildly different from each other in intent and tone? I'm ruined!
Seriously though, that just means there's plenty to ruminate on across both these episodes despite their superficially similar subject matter. Episode 7 sees the Host Club take a day off for themselves to relax at a cutting-edge resort waterpark, owned by Kyoya's family in one of several links these episodes do share. They go for the most obvious gag fuel first: the Hitachiin twins conspiring to try to get Haruhi into a feminine swimsuit, and Tamaki interfering as his own conflicted feelings on the matter manifest. Since their turn a couple episodes ago made clear the bros might have more serious romantic designs on Haruhi apart from their usual playful flirting, it seems Tamaki has adjusted to regarding them as an actual threat to his own intentions. Oddly, this makes him come across as more sincerely protective of Haruhi from their overt lascivious intent, though his newfound couching of such concerns in acting as her ‘Daddy’ is more than a little off-putting in its own way. It's still funny, because Mamoru Miyano doing anything this ridiculous is always funny and Tamaki continues to not be taken seriously at all. But it still does so in that mid-2000's shoujo way that makes me side-eye how far some of these jokes might go.
Tamaki's not the main event though, as this is ostensibly a focal episode for Honey and Mori, the two club members still pending any development at all. And this episode actually delivers on that need in pretty much the best ways I could have asked it to. Honey has been a complete enigma to me, as I question how much of his childlike persona is as much of a projection as the other boys' character types, obfuscated as it is by the vagueness of his actual age. But the same kinds of depths behind his presentation start coming to the surface here, indicating that he's well aware of his own cute kid nature and how to play it up, and showing that he's very capable of taking care of himself. Mori, for his part, gets some decent development vis-à-vis his loyalty to Honey and how the other characters explain it.
I'm honestly not 100% down with the supposed explanation that Mori is obligatorily deferential to Honey due to his family's past of servitude, but at least Haruhi seems to agree with me on that one. That makes it somewhat sweeter when he assists Haruhi out of what seems to be the same kind of generalized loyalty to his friends. So there's a lot of digging still to be done on Mori's character, but Honey's childlike earnestness still seems to come through in a real way. Despite some odder ins and outs detailing his and Mori's relationship, I dug his appreciable demeanor towards his much taller friend. Honey is a good example of why I've been hoping so hard that Ouran would add more nuance and layers to its characters, since that gives me more reasons to enjoy watching them. Plus there's a scene this episode where Honey single-handedly beats up a bunch of cops. So I might have a new favorite.
The implications of Ouran's relationship developments are decidedly messier to parse in the eighth episode, which takes a suggestion by Haruhi from that previous one and runs with it all the way to a real beach (also owned by Kyoya). This one also sees the club actually performing their hostly duties while lounging around in swimwear, and it's always a delight to be reminded of Haruhi's complete inability to turn her natural swag off. That does dovetail into the overarching conflict this episode, beginning with the boys trying to discover if the perpetually-unflappable Haruhi actually has anything that can distress her, and halfway through turns to... them scolding Haruhi for forgetting the inherent weaknesses she has as a female? Oy.
The one pass I can give Ouran on this plotline is I can't be certain the narrative itself is admonishing Haruhi or if it's just a way to put the guys' regressive views on display. We're still in the single-digit episodes after all, and this series has been nothing but clear about how glacially its character development is actually going to occur. Yet there's a thread of understanding their worries, regardless, in how the story is told, as Haruhi's badass moment of rushing in to save some Host Club guest girls from drunken molesters is kneecapped by her struggling against them and comments about her lack of musculature. A gag series like this, especially one that's already played plenty with the ideas of gender presentation, is kind of the last place I was expecting a cheap intonation of the supposed immutable differences between sexes. Half an hour ago I watched a three-foot-tall kid kick the crap out of a SWAT team, and here everyone's admonishing Haruhi because there's no way a girl could win a fight? I don't buy it.
It doesn't help that the storyline causes dudes like Honey or the twins to start guilting Haruhi like callous jerks, or, in the case of Kyoya, swerve straight into Shoujo dangerous-bad-boy mode. His momentary assault of Haruhi is some serious whiplash in a show that previously never approached that level of seriousness. It does get walked back in a way that effectively reminds us of Haruhi's true strength in being able to genuinely read people, making clear to us anyway that her rushing in was not about ignoring the worries of the Host Club but instead a sign of her trust in them. And I can't argue with this series injecting more drama into characters when I've spent so much time asking for it; indeed, I'm more interested in what's actually making Kyoya tick than I ever have been. But it might have been too much too soon in an episode that was already pushing how it treated Haruhi.
What I can praise episode 8 on is its last-minute development of Tamaki, who not only owns up to being wrong about any gender limitations he accused Haruhi of, but acknowledges the singular life she's lived until now as the real explanation for her attitude and interactions with the group. It's an impressive moment of growth because we can see him starting to interface with Haruhi's philosophy of understanding people as individuals apart from any socially-constructed signifiers. If Ouran is going to attempt a serious romantic thread before its end, then Tamaki's always been the obvious choice for the endgame just going off all his promotional positioning. But this moment between him and Haruhi at the end of this episode was the first place I got the feeling such a thing might actually work. Far from hinting at the potential for character development, this gave me hope for how much the show could pull it off. Plus, it still showed off its comic chops at this early stage by undercutting things and making Tamaki look like a doofus. I could watch them dunk on that guy all day.
So we get an episode with Ouran's comedic ability still on fine display, which throws in some solid character work for the last two main boys that needed it. But then it attempts more nuanced analysis that may not be ready for prime-time at this moment. I can't fault the show for being ambitious, but it's frustrating when those ambitions lead it down a path that undercuts the strengths I so enjoyed about it until now. Trying to put its cast through an emotional wringer while still having silly snake jokes and crab puns perhaps shows a skewing of priorities so early in the series as we are.
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Tower of God - Episode 12 [Review]
I didn't think the penultimate episode of Tower of God would have me clamoring for Crunchyroll to redesign their website but here we are. “Underwater Hunt (Part Two)” ought to have concluded on a shocking cliffhanger, but I knew ages in advance that Rachel was up to no good. Even if I hadn't read some of the original webtoon the show is based on, and even if I wasn't on social media, I would still see the comments under each Tower of God video wishing ill on Rachel in increasingly colorful language. Now that it turns out that all Rachel did to deserve this vitriol was one extremely-telegraphed yeet, I'm sitting here wondering, “Why does Crunchyroll even have a comments section?” People call them the “Netflix of Anime” but just imagine what kind of hellhole a Netflix comments section would be. YouTube has comments to be sure, but they're not a place I'd like to spend a lot of time. However, my dashed expectations at the end are only a small part of the experience this week, an action-packed episode that crams in everything and the kitchen sink.
While each episode of Tower of God has been nonstop, this one took it up a notch. Every character we've met so far (and a few that we haven't) played a role this week. This episode never lets up as it switches between multiple high-stakes situations, which themselves are cliffhangers from last week. Rak continues to torment Paracule with his gung-ho personality, making for an entertaining interlude between more serious beats. Khun manages to game the wildly complicated system by pitting the earthpigs against the barnacle goblins and their wetworms—proving that an exam with this many different aggressors has an obvious loophole. But when a family member of Khun's shows up, it's a realization that even our resident strategist can't account for all of the Tower's unexpected twists. In this fast-paced anime we're only getting a taste of this world's internal politics, but there are so many factions with differing motivations that even Hansung Yu and Lero-Ro can't agree on how to administer this exam.
One thing that Hansung Yu is weirdly cool with: Ren (aka the evil riceball) running amok in the testing site and putting out hits on various contestants. By controlling the eldritch abomination known as the Bull, he's decided to take out the “imposters” Anaak and Endorsi, ostensibly on the orders of King Jahad. He offers Endorsi the chance to redeem herself by killing Anaak, but in a surprisingly sweet about-face, Endorsi instead invites Anaak to have lunch with her when this is all over. It was just a few episodes ago that these two were fighting each other pointlessly—neither girl willing to put aside her pride to avoid serious injuries. The power of friendship doesn't magically defeat Ren, but a fellow princess does. Lady Yuri finally returns to the testing area twelve episodes after her first appearance and proceeds to absolutely wreck the dude. We don't know much about Lady Yuri aside from the fact that she seems to be invincible as well as not subject to the rules in the same way as everyone else—the perfect ally for our protagonist Irregular and his team of what are now traitors for assisting him.
Speaking of traitors… Rachel took all of Bam's puppy-dog loyalty and literally pushed it away. It turns out she could walk the whole time; she was just holding onto that ability to increase the element of surprise. I get that this is supposed to really make me hate Rachel, but it's been a long time coming—though I'm not sure if it's the fans' constant disparagement or her multiple-episode coldness toward Bam that has fed that suspicion more. From using a fake name to avoid Bam, to commenting that she found Bam weak and annoying even during the honeymoon phase of their relationship, to quietly acknowledging but not reciprocating Bam's constant words of praise and affection… well, the writing has been on the wall that She's Just Not That Into You, Bam. Compared to the cluster of betrayals that occurred in episode 9, this wasn't such a shock. But even if it wasn't a huge surprise, the show did a great job using its impactful closing music to give additional pathos to the moments following the push. Hopefully this will encourage Bam to finally move on and find his own reason to climb the Tower. But, looking at how much hatred webtoon readers have for Rachel, I'm going to say probably not.
Tower of God - Episode 12 [Review]
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Kakushigoto - Episode 12 [Review]
After weeks of teasing disaster and despair, Kakushigoto finally pulls back the veil on its frame story and delivers a definitive conclusion for its father-daughter saga about manga artistry and dick jokes. Unlike prior episodes, this one takes place entirely in the somber flash-forward starring 18-year-old Hime, and even though it's a slight departure from the story's expected format and tonal variance, it feels appropriate. Kakushigoto has already spent so much time hyping up the mystery of its titular character's fate that there's no way it would've been able to squeeze something satisfying into just a minutes-long epilogue. That doesn't stop the finale from feeling a little bit strange, but on the other hand, we can all be thankful that Kōji Kumeta resisted the temptation to knock over his meticulously-arranged chessboard of character drama for one last spectacular goof. Instead, Kakushi and Hime find closure and a (mostly) secret-free path forward for their family.
Kumeta actually seems kind of embarrassed about how long he ended up stringing the audience along, based on how quickly he reveals all the narrative cards he was hiding. Hime is indeed Kakushi's real daughter. Kakushi himself was actually the illegitimate child. That only mattered because kabuki actors and traditional artists don't get along, apparently. His half-sister sent Hime the house key. His wife was lost at sea, and he could never fully accept that. He gave up on manga because his fans found out and thought that was weird. He's also not dead right now; he's just in a coma. And that's more or less it. All of this comes to light in the first five or so exposition-saturated minutes—more perfunctory than satisfying. The saving grace is that all these answers are pretty mundane and set the stage for the eventual reunion between Hime and her dad. Last-minute twists for the sake of it are difficult to pull off (and to be fair, Kakushigoto does try to pull a pretty big one that we'll get to shortly), so the way these naturally fizzle into the denouement is probably the best course it could have taken.
One issue I do rankle with is the valuation of blood relations, which is broached briefly when Hime's cousin reassures her that Kakushi is her “real” dad, to her vocalized relief. As a staunch appreciator of found families—especially those in some of my favorite anime series—I can't help but critique this small but nonetheless misguided focus on the “legitimacy” of their bond. Kakushi would have still been Hime's dad even if he had found her in a stalk of bamboo. This whole show was about the two of them taking care of each other, working through their problems, and celebrating the triumphs whenever they could, because they love each other. They're family!
The last-minute amnesia twist is also so shamelessly cloying that Kumeta can't help but lampoon himself yet again through the mouthpiece of Tomaruin. If I'm being charitable, I can accept it as symbolic of Kakushi's deep-seated reluctance to see Hime grow up and consequently learn the truth about his former occupation and passion. In reality as in fiction, there's a temptation for fathers in particular to infantilize their daughters. Thus, the key to Kakushi breaking through his amnesia is his acceptance that raising Hime and seeing her grow up into her own person was well worth working through his own discomfort and insecurity. That's both sweet and perceptive, but it's still tacked onto a cheap and cliché dramatic shortcut appended to the final ten minutes of the show.
Unsurprisingly, the tone of this episode is a lot more serious overall compared to its predecessors. However, buried just underneath the surface of the text is some of Kumeta's most quietly acerbic satire to be found in Kakushigoto, surfacing here as if he finally felt freed of the responsibility of sustaining cute father-daughter shenanigans. Most overt is the manner of Kakushi's accident, in which a man who tried to run away from the manga industry ends up hospitalized due to a pallet of manga falling on him. That's some tasty irony, but to take this one step further, the reason the pallet collapses is attributed to someone stealing a copy of Shonen Jump to leak to the internet. Many people (myself included) have at one point justified manga piracy to themselves, but here Kumeta doesn't mince any words about the harm it causes creators. While they might not be falling into conveniently tragic comas, there are plenty of other ways it hurts the people who, as Kakushigoto has frequently pointed out, don't have easy careers to begin with.
This finale in general doesn't paint a flattering portrait of the internet. A combination of tabloid journalism and vitriolic anonymous commenters dealt the final blow to Kakushi's ambitions of making people laugh. Granted, Kakushigoto doesn't (and couldn't) explore this facet with the intensity of something like Gatchaman Crowds, but it's not accidental that Kakushi's recovery—both from amnesia and from his manga block—stems from time spent together with people who care about him. Hime triggers his memories with a decidedly low-tech cardboard box full of musty manuscripts. It's a callback to the boxes her mother left for her, but it also shows the importance of the in-person interpersonal warmth Kakushi has been able to foster in spite of himself.
Ultimately, what works best in this finale is what has always worked best for Kakushigoto: the small and sincere moments shared between people who care about each other amidst their rampant wackiness. Whether it's Hime's classmates banding together for one last detective job, or Kakushi's former assistants dutifully drawing pages for a series that ended years ago, the bonds they've all forged transcend any attempt at secrecy. It adds up to a safe yet satisfying conclusion. Personally, in my heart of hearts, I'm always going to hold Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei as the paradigm of Kōji Kumeta manga and adaptations, but Kakushigoto was a nice change of pace and a relaxing companion for stressful times. I look forward to whatever Kumeta moves onto next with a mixture of anticipation and fear for the unmined depths of pun-making he can still unearth.
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Listeners - Episode 12 [Review]
Here we have it, the big finale of Listeners, and like any sci-fi action series made after 2000, it's got to go out on a big emotional confrontation where the fate of the world hinges on magical robot powers that let enemies and allies alike understand eachother for the first time. At least this time the robot magic is also tied to music, which is actually a pretty good vehicle for facilitating empathy and one of the few times the show has managed to harmonize its musical aesthetic with its broader themes. Still, at this point it definitely feels like the story going through the motions of what's expected for it. There are still some buried gems in the dialogue – Roz gets probably the best line of the whole show when Denka starts to call Echo the second-coming of Jimi: “It's nothing so grand. All he did was express what was in his heart, and the world chose all by itself to be moved by it.” It's a perfect encapsulation about the act of making music, how it can be at once personal and powerfully external, and I came out of the climax really wishing those feelings had really been at the center of this story and conflict.
As is, Listeners' conclusion mostly serves as an object lesson in spoiled potential. There are multiple monologues and speeches during Mu and Echo's big confrontation that try to tie a bow on the questions of understanding, hope, and love that have been thrown around across the show's runtime, but through most of them I kept asking “wait, is that what you were trying to be about?” as the show seemed to self-assuredly wrap up on the sentiment of not labeling others and reaching out to learn who they really are. It's certainly not a bad moral to build your show around, but through the sprawling, cluttered stories Listeners has told that only ever felt like one of its many philosophical toys it would bring out when it wanted to add weight to its rock'n'roll robot dystopia.
And then there's Track 13, which makes up the back-half of this finale so we can double up on Beatles references, and tries to be a happy epilogue where Humans and Earless now live in harmony and everyone gets a new beginning, but also serves to throw in two very random twists that I cannot wrap my head around. The first is easily the dumbest, with the reveal that Lyde and Richie were alive the whole time and just off camera some where. It's a bizarre joke to end Nir's arc with, and pulls the rug out of what was one of the more emotionally effecting beats in the whole story. I get they didn't want to leave Nir alone and mourning when everyone else gets a happy ending, but there had to be a better way to go about it.
The other twist comes in the form of that elf looking kid in the review image, who looks so much like a fusion of Echo and Mu I initially thought that what they were. But the final post-credits scene assures us that our protagonists are alive and distinct, going on yet another adventure together, and they certainly haven't aged enough to have a kid either. Going by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bit in the climax I've got to assume that's the new form of Listeners, now that Mu's own personality has split off entirely, and I guess they get to start a new life coexisting with humans just like the other Earless. If that is the case, that's a real baffling way to conclude an already underdeveloped storyline, and making the delivery so vague just leaves me scratching my head rather than soaking in the good vibes of your happy ending. In all, these final scenes are just a strange, discordant note to go out on for the series.
So that's where I stand on the finale, but what about Listeners as a whole? Well...ok. I have made my fair share of musical puns and metaphors throughout Listeners' run, and I'm proud of every last terrible one of them, but there's a particular comparison I've been trying to hold off on until the show could play out its tracklist. It's not a damning comparison, nor a particularly kind one altogether, but having finished the show I think it's entirely fitting. Plus the show starts with an Oasis reference and ends on TWO Beatles name drops, so really it's inviting this:
Listeners is the Be Here Now of anime.
If you've watched this show for this long I assume that comparison makes sense to you, but for those who only know Oasis from the Eden of the East OP, Be Here Now is the band's 3rd full-length album and widely considered the bomb that took them from the biggest name in rock music to a faded memory of the mid-90's. While on the whole it's not a terrible album, it's a work defined by pretentious of grandiosity being undercut by a vapid, vacuous lack of real sentiment; an LP that intends to be profound but in the end feels too soupy and disjointed to achieve it. It's also littered with an embarrassing amount of Beatles references that only serve to remind you of much better songs you could be listening to instead of “Magic Pie.” And I don't even like The Beatles that much.
In much the same way, Listeners feels like a show too smothered by its influences and inspirations to ever say anything of its own. For all that it's slathered in broad and deep cuts of rock history, it ends up feeling like a cover version of its obvious sci-fi anime forebears, and only rarely manages to pull something unique from its mix of mech and music. As much as seeing anime-tastic versions of iconic musicians tickled my brain, it also left me wanting in a big way when it came down to what the show wanted to say. What made so many of the musical acts that Listeners name-drops so memorable was that their art had a sharp, personal, often intentionally counterculture sentiment behind it, and that never really shows up here. In the end it's not a bad show – the stories are mostly entertaining, and if you get a kick out of rock history in-jokes there's plenty to be found to amuse you – but I left wanting something, anything more.
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Wave, Listen to Me! - Episode 12 [Review]
So this is how Wave, Listen to Me! ends: Not with a bang…but a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido! Yes, dear viewers, the show opted to end the season in a surprisingly grand fashion, showcasing everyone on the MRS team at their best as they work together to use the power of radio to unite the island and bring some peace of mind in times that are both literally and metaphorically darker than anyone expected. This isn't about tragedy, or death, and it doesn't even feel like a cheap grab at the real world earthquake disaster that is still a fresh wound in the minds of the whole Japanese populace. It's just a simple story with stakes that are a little bit bigger than normal, and it's all about how radio is a tool that can be used for truly extraordinary purposes when the time calls for it.
So, with those lofty and emotional ambitions established, how on earth did “I Want to Convey It To You” end up as such a letdown of a finale for an otherwise stellar and refreshing series? I'd seen rumblings that the season was going for something of an anime original conclusion already, mind you, so I was prepared for Wave to maybe pass over a couple of plot threads on its way to putting a bow on what might be its only run of episodes. Don't get me wrong, either, as an individual morsel of calculated pathos, “I Want to Convey It to You” works well enough, and if this was the penultimate chapter of the season or something I'm sure it would go down nicely. As the show's final and theoretically most emphatic statement of purpose, though? This episode is weak sauce, man, there's no way around it, even if this isn't anime original material.
My misgivings are all tied up in the way the episode both seems determined to address all of the plot threads its laid out across the past eleven episodes, while simultaneously failing to do anything remotely interesting with any of them. Take Makie for example: At the beginning of the episode, we see that she has actually been using the alias “Joker Stonsky” to work as a contributor to a radio program at HCB, which I presume is a rival station to MRS, which is significant because…well, I'm not sure, to be honest. There are a lot of things to infer, naturally, mainly to do with the romantic rivalry she shares with Minare, and she outright says that she's doing the work as an act of rebellion via independence, something that is hers and hers alone. That's all well and good, but I'm flummoxed as to why the show would include a plot thread like this in such a half-assed manner, only to completely forget about it once the earthquake hits. After that, Makie and Nakahara's cute bonding gets routed into turning Voyager into a makeshift soup kitchen for locals. Again, it's fine, but it all feels decidedly random.
Then there's Mizuho, whose angst over Kureko's imminent departure has been a stopping point across the last few episodes. Here, we get a bit more texture when we learn that a lecture of Kureko's is what got Mizuho interested in being a station assistant director to begin with, and then there's lots of her fretting over whether to pursue her “dream” of working with Kureko on her own show. After weeks of kind-of building this character arc up, the climax that Wave gives us is…Mizuho working up the nerve to just ask Kureko to work with her, which he says he will in his own curmudgeonly way. So, yeah, an incredibly minor crisis was capped off with an incredibly minor resolution.
”Okay,” I can hear you all saying, “Sure, but Wave was never the best at juggling a bunch of plot threads at once, especially in its back half. Surely, though, Minare and Kanetsugu get a worthy send off?” That, my poor hypothetical reader, is where I will have to disappoint you the most, because they really don't. Now, there is good stuff here, once the cool and collected Kanetsugu has to walk the panicky Minare through the routine emergency broadcast procedures. I liked the way Minare has to balance her anxious word vomit with her responsibilities as someone with broadcasting capability in an earthquake/blackout emergency. I liked how Minare didn't suddenly fall into her destiny as The Ultimate Local Hokkaidan Entertainment Personality when the chips were down; Chishiro had to step in to provide the measure of genuine authority that Minare doesn't quite project yet. I even kind of liked Kanetsugu turning on his Hardass Mode to keep Minare functional when things got crazy, (though someone maybe ought to let him know that it's 2020, man, and Minare doesn't need to have “balls” to be capable).
As a one-and-done after-school special sort of affair, this stuff works. It just makes for a lame finale to a whole season's worth of stories and development. We don't get any of the program's wacky visualization, we don't get to hear Minare interacting with her audience in a more personalized and non-earthquake-focused manner, and hell, the scene doesn't even work terribly well as a signifier that Minare has taken her first big step into a weird new career, even if it just the first of many. The best the show can do is have Mianre reflect on how amazing and powerful radio is at, like, bringing people together, man, and that she's more determined than ever to make her mark. We get not one, but two different treacly pop-song montages over scenes of the Hokkaidans making it through the night, and of Minare committing herself to radio once and for all.
I don't know how else to say this: It's corny as hell. Wave, Listen to Me! has been a lot of things over its twelve-episode run. It's been brash, bizarre, inventive, oddly touching, and frequently hilarious, sure, but more than anything, it's been honest. No matter how wacky or warped Minare's worldview painted things, this show, to me, has been about empathizing with Minare, and enjoying the ups-and-downs that come from starting a new and unpredictable chapter in one's life (oh, and bear fights! Wave has been about bear fights, too). The point is, for all of the things this finale did well, it's the first time I felt I could see all of the turning cogs and dancing strings holding the story together. It felt manipulative, albeit in a somewhat muted sense, and dishonest. Does that negate all of the wonderful things the series did in its best moments? Hardly. It's just a bummer of a note to go out on.
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Ouran High School Host Club - Episodes 7-8 [Review]
I like when shows like Ouran High School Host Club, which revel in playing with their stock genre setups, arrive at the ‘obligatory’ swimsuit episode, since I get to revel right back by calling attention to it. So what better joy can there be here for me than Ouran actually having two swimsuit episodes, in a row, which line up directly with this week's review block? At last, the multi-episode synergy benefits the analysis of the reviewer! What's that, they're actually wildly different from each other in intent and tone? I'm ruined!
Seriously though, that just means there's plenty to ruminate on across both these episodes despite their superficially similar subject matter. Episode 7 sees the Host Club take a day off for themselves to relax at a cutting-edge resort waterpark, owned by Kyoya's family in one of several links these episodes do share. They go for the most obvious gag fuel first: the Hitachiin twins conspiring to try to get Haruhi into a feminine swimsuit, and Tamaki interfering as his own conflicted feelings on the matter manifest. Since their turn a couple episodes ago made clear the bros might have more serious romantic designs on Haruhi apart from their usual playful flirting, it seems Tamaki has adjusted to regarding them as an actual threat to his own intentions. Oddly, this makes him come across as more sincerely protective of Haruhi from their overt lascivious intent, though his newfound couching of such concerns in acting as her ‘Daddy’ is more than a little off-putting in its own way. It's still funny, because Mamoru Miyano doing anything this ridiculous is always funny and Tamaki continues to not be taken seriously at all. But it still does so in that mid-2000's shoujo way that makes me side-eye how far some of these jokes might go.
Tamaki's not the main event though, as this is ostensibly a focal episode for Honey and Mori, the two club members still pending any development at all. And this episode actually delivers on that need in pretty much the best ways I could have asked it to. Honey has been a complete enigma to me, as I question how much of his childlike persona is as much of a projection as the other boys' character types, obfuscated as it is by the vagueness of his actual age. But the same kinds of depths behind his presentation start coming to the surface here, indicating that he's well aware of his own cute kid nature and how to play it up, and showing that he's very capable of taking care of himself. Mori, for his part, gets some decent development vis-à-vis his loyalty to Honey and how the other characters explain it.
I'm honestly not 100% down with the supposed explanation that Mori is obligatorily deferential to Honey due to his family's past of servitude, but at least Haruhi seems to agree with me on that one. That makes it somewhat sweeter when he assists Haruhi out of what seems to be the same kind of generalized loyalty to his friends. So there's a lot of digging still to be done on Mori's character, but Honey's childlike earnestness still seems to come through in a real way. Despite some odder ins and outs detailing his and Mori's relationship, I dug his appreciable demeanor towards his much taller friend. Honey is a good example of why I've been hoping so hard that Ouran would add more nuance and layers to its characters, since that gives me more reasons to enjoy watching them. Plus there's a scene this episode where Honey single-handedly beats up a bunch of cops. So I might have a new favorite.
The implications of Ouran's relationship developments are decidedly messier to parse in the eighth episode, which takes a suggestion by Haruhi from that previous one and runs with it all the way to a real beach (also owned by Kyoya). This one also sees the club actually performing their hostly duties while lounging around in swimwear, and it's always a delight to be reminded of Haruhi's complete inability to turn her natural swag off. That does dovetail into the overarching conflict this episode, beginning with the boys trying to discover if the perpetually-unflappable Haruhi actually has anything that can distress her, and halfway through turns to... them scolding Haruhi for forgetting the inherent weaknesses she has as a female? Oy.
The one pass I can give Ouran on this plotline is I can't be certain the narrative itself is admonishing Haruhi or if it's just a way to put the guys' regressive views on display. We're still in the single-digit episodes after all, and this series has been nothing but clear about how glacially its character development is actually going to occur. Yet there's a thread of understanding their worries, regardless, in how the story is told, as Haruhi's badass moment of rushing in to save some Host Club guest girls from drunken molesters is kneecapped by her struggling against them and comments about her lack of musculature. A gag series like this, especially one that's already played plenty with the ideas of gender presentation, is kind of the last place I was expecting a cheap intonation of the supposed immutable differences between sexes. Half an hour ago I watched a three-foot-tall kid kick the crap out of a SWAT team, and here everyone's admonishing Haruhi because there's no way a girl could win a fight? I don't buy it.
It doesn't help that the storyline causes dudes like Honey or the twins to start guilting Haruhi like callous jerks, or, in the case of Kyoya, swerve straight into Shoujo dangerous-bad-boy mode. His momentary assault of Haruhi is some serious whiplash in a show that previously never approached that level of seriousness. It does get walked back in a way that effectively reminds us of Haruhi's true strength in being able to genuinely read people, making clear to us anyway that her rushing in was not about ignoring the worries of the Host Club but instead a sign of her trust in them. And I can't argue with this series injecting more drama into characters when I've spent so much time asking for it; indeed, I'm more interested in what's actually making Kyoya tick than I ever have been. But it might have been too much too soon in an episode that was already pushing how it treated Haruhi.
What I can praise episode 8 on is its last-minute development of Tamaki, who not only owns up to being wrong about any gender limitations he accused Haruhi of, but acknowledges the singular life she's lived until now as the real explanation for her attitude and interactions with the group. It's an impressive moment of growth because we can see him starting to interface with Haruhi's philosophy of understanding people as individuals apart from any socially-constructed signifiers. If Ouran is going to attempt a serious romantic thread before its end, then Tamaki's always been the obvious choice for the endgame just going off all his promotional positioning. But this moment between him and Haruhi at the end of this episode was the first place I got the feeling such a thing might actually work. Far from hinting at the potential for character development, this gave me hope for how much the show could pull it off. Plus, it still showed off its comic chops at this early stage by undercutting things and making Tamaki look like a doofus. I could watch them dunk on that guy all day.
So we get an episode with Ouran's comedic ability still on fine display, which throws in some solid character work for the last two main boys that needed it. But then it attempts more nuanced analysis that may not be ready for prime-time at this moment. I can't fault the show for being ambitious, but it's frustrating when those ambitions lead it down a path that undercuts the strengths I so enjoyed about it until now. Trying to put its cast through an emotional wringer while still having silly snake jokes and crab puns perhaps shows a skewing of priorities so early in the series as we are.
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Tower of God - Episode 12 [Review]
I didn't think the penultimate episode of Tower of God would have me clamoring for Crunchyroll to redesign their website but here we are. “Underwater Hunt (Part Two)” ought to have concluded on a shocking cliffhanger, but I knew ages in advance that Rachel was up to no good. Even if I hadn't read some of the original webtoon the show is based on, and even if I wasn't on social media, I would still see the comments under each Tower of God video wishing ill on Rachel in increasingly colorful language. Now that it turns out that all Rachel did to deserve this vitriol was one extremely-telegraphed yeet, I'm sitting here wondering, “Why does Crunchyroll even have a comments section?” People call them the “Netflix of Anime” but just imagine what kind of hellhole a Netflix comments section would be. YouTube has comments to be sure, but they're not a place I'd like to spend a lot of time. However, my dashed expectations at the end are only a small part of the experience this week, an action-packed episode that crams in everything and the kitchen sink.
While each episode of Tower of God has been nonstop, this one took it up a notch. Every character we've met so far (and a few that we haven't) played a role this week. This episode never lets up as it switches between multiple high-stakes situations, which themselves are cliffhangers from last week. Rak continues to torment Paracule with his gung-ho personality, making for an entertaining interlude between more serious beats. Khun manages to game the wildly complicated system by pitting the earthpigs against the barnacle goblins and their wetworms—proving that an exam with this many different aggressors has an obvious loophole. But when a family member of Khun's shows up, it's a realization that even our resident strategist can't account for all of the Tower's unexpected twists. In this fast-paced anime we're only getting a taste of this world's internal politics, but there are so many factions with differing motivations that even Hansung Yu and Lero-Ro can't agree on how to administer this exam.
One thing that Hansung Yu is weirdly cool with: Ren (aka the evil riceball) running amok in the testing site and putting out hits on various contestants. By controlling the eldritch abomination known as the Bull, he's decided to take out the “imposters” Anaak and Endorsi, ostensibly on the orders of King Jahad. He offers Endorsi the chance to redeem herself by killing Anaak, but in a surprisingly sweet about-face, Endorsi instead invites Anaak to have lunch with her when this is all over. It was just a few episodes ago that these two were fighting each other pointlessly—neither girl willing to put aside her pride to avoid serious injuries. The power of friendship doesn't magically defeat Ren, but a fellow princess does. Lady Yuri finally returns to the testing area twelve episodes after her first appearance and proceeds to absolutely wreck the dude. We don't know much about Lady Yuri aside from the fact that she seems to be invincible as well as not subject to the rules in the same way as everyone else—the perfect ally for our protagonist Irregular and his team of what are now traitors for assisting him.
Speaking of traitors… Rachel took all of Bam's puppy-dog loyalty and literally pushed it away. It turns out she could walk the whole time; she was just holding onto that ability to increase the element of surprise. I get that this is supposed to really make me hate Rachel, but it's been a long time coming—though I'm not sure if it's the fans' constant disparagement or her multiple-episode coldness toward Bam that has fed that suspicion more. From using a fake name to avoid Bam, to commenting that she found Bam weak and annoying even during the honeymoon phase of their relationship, to quietly acknowledging but not reciprocating Bam's constant words of praise and affection… well, the writing has been on the wall that She's Just Not That Into You, Bam. Compared to the cluster of betrayals that occurred in episode 9, this wasn't such a shock. But even if it wasn't a huge surprise, the show did a great job using its impactful closing music to give additional pathos to the moments following the push. Hopefully this will encourage Bam to finally move on and find his own reason to climb the Tower. But, looking at how much hatred webtoon readers have for Rachel, I'm going to say probably not.
Anime – New Episode [21 June 2020]
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Anime – New Episode [21 June 2020]
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[Erai-raws] Yesterday o Utatte - 12 END [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Yesterday o Utatte - 12 END [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Judas] Kaguya-Sama Wa Kokurasetai - S02E11 [1080p][HEVC x265 10bit][Eng-Subs] (Weekly)
[HorribleSubs] Yesterday wo Utatte - 12 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Yesterday wo Utatte - 12 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Yesterday wo Utatte - 12 [480p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Otome Game no Hametsu Flag s… - 12 END [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[FroZen-EviL]_Yawara_-_046_[720p][Blu-Ray][12D20A95].mkv
[FroZen-EviL]_Yawara_-_045_[720p][Blu-Ray][C4A66C33].mkv
[FroZen-EviL]_Yawara_-_044_[720p][Blu-Ray][DD33AA5B].mkv
[Erai-raws] Otome Game no Hametsu Flag sh... - 12 END [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Edge] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [1080p][10Bit][x265]
[HorribleSubs] Hamefura - 12 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hamefura - 12 [1080p].mkv
[Anime Time] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [1080p HEVC 10bit x265].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hamefura - 12 [480p].mkv
[HR] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai ! Love is War - S02E11 [1080p HEVC] HR-MF
[EMBER] Arte S01E12 [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[FFA] Arte - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[EMBER] Arte アルテ (Season 1) [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[Kawaiika-Raws] (2020) Kandagawa Jet Girls OVA [BDRip 1920x1080 HEVC FLAC]
[Kawaiika-Raws] (2019) Kandagawa Jet Girls [BDRip 1920x1080 HEVC FLAC]
[HorribleSubs] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [360p].mkv
[DmonHiro] Kabaneri Of The Iron Fortress - The Movies (BD, 720p)
Free! Dive Into the Future - Episode 00 OVA [1080p x265 Opus]
[YuushaNi] Love Live! Sunshine!! Complete (BD HEVC 1920x1080 AAC)
[FFA] Nami yo Kiitekure - 01 - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[Bereke Scrubs] Fang of the Sun Dougram - 05-08 [480p]
[HorribleSubs] Arte - 12 [720p].mkv
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[FFA] Shin Sakura Taisen the Animation - 01 - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[neoHEVC] Banana Fish [BD 1080p x265 HEVC AAC]
[Cleo] Manaria Friends | Mysteria Friends [Dual Audio 10bit BD1080p][HEVC-x265]
[Glenn] Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai! S3 batch [1080p AAC]
[FFA] Houkago Teibou Nisshi - 01 - 03 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[CoolSuccubusAnime] Kyonyuu Fantasy [BD][1080p][10Bit][x265](lesscensored)
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Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba - Season 1 (English Dubbed) [HDTV] [720p]
[Judas] Noragami (Seasons 1-2 + OADs) v2 [BD 1080p][ x265 10bit][Dual-Audio][EN-Sub]
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba - Season 1 (English Dubbed) [HDTV] [720p]
修罗之刻/修羅の刻（しゅらのとき）/shura no toki][TV01-26][1408x1056 DIVX AAC][MKV]
[Anime Time] Noragami [S1+S2+Extras+OAD][Dual Audio][1080p BD][HEVC 10bit x265][AAC]
[HR] Yesterday wo Utatte S01 [Web 1080p x265]~HR-P
Saint Seiya - English And Brazilian Portuguese Subtitles - Ripped From Netflix
[Anime Time] Great Pretender - 14 [1080p HEVC 10bit x265].mkv
Saint Seiya - Season 1,2,3,4,5 And 6 - 960x720 - English Subtitles - Ripped From Netflix
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[HorribleSubs] Honzuki no Gekokujou - Season 2 [Complete] [1080p] [unofficial batch]
[HorribleSubs] Honzuki no Gekokujou - Season 1 [Complete] [1080p] [unofficial batch]
[Erai-raws] Asatir - Mirai no Mukashi Banashi - 12 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Asatir - Mirai no Mukashi Banashi - 12 [720p].mkv
Re:Zero.S01.1080p.Blu-Ray.10-Bit.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.x265-iAHD
[YakuboEncodes] Otome Game no Hametsu Flag... - 12 END [1080p 10bit]
FrFr! (A Collection of Free! Shorts) [V2] [720p Dual Audio x265 Opus]
Karaki Jozu No Takagi-San [Season 2] [1080p BDRIP] [TRIAL]
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[mSubs] Getter Robo - 45 [1A102B08] mkv
[EMBER] Ascendance of a Bookworm (Season 2) [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[EMBER] Kaguya-Sama love is war S02E11 [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
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[FFA] Great Pretender - 14v2 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[KiruaSubs] Yesterday wo Utatte - Extra 06
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[HorribleSubs] Tower of God - 13 FINAL [1080p].mkv
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[delete aniplex] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai S2 - 11 [1080p] [D24372A4].mkv
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[-KS-] My Next Life as a Villainess - All Routes Lead to Doom! - 06 [1080p] [English Dub]
[-KS-] My Next Life as a Villainess - All Routes Lead to Doom! - 06 [720p] [English Dub]
[-KS-] In/Spectre (Kyokou Suiri) - 12 [1080p] [English Dub] [Crunchyroll] [E015E928]
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[Anime Time] Vinland Saga - ヴィンランド・サガ [BD 1080p][HEVC 10bit x265][AAC]
[FFA] Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika... - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[FFA] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai.: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen - 11 [1080p][][].mkv
[Erai-raws] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai! Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 2 - 11 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai! Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen 2 - 11 [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Arte - 12 END [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Arte - 12 END [720p].mkv
[NHF-Encodes] Yesterday wo Utatte - E12 [1920x1080] [HEVC x265 10bit] [Multi-Subs].mkv
[Die Hot 14 - My Hot Will Go On (Director's Cut)] Great Pretender - 14v2 [57023320].mkv
[PrinceOtaku] Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun - 21 [720p] [Dual Audio] [ENG-JPN-ENG SUBS]
[Erai-raws] Honzuki no Gekokujou - Shisho ni Naru Tame ni … - 12 END [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Honzuki no Gekokujou - Shisho ni Naru Tame ni … - 12 END [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Honzuki no Gekokujou - 26 [480p].mkv
[HR] Otome Game no Hametsu - S01E12 [END][1080p HEVC] HR-MF
Anime – New Episode [20 June 2020]
Anime – New Episode [20 June 2020]
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Douluo Dalu - Soul Land Season 2 Ep - 83 [109] Eng Subs [1080p]
[Anime Time] Seoul Station [Bluray][BD 720p][HEVC 10bit x265][AAC].mkv
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[EMBER] Listeners リスナーズ (Season 1) [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[Saturday] Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monster 1
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Explorer Woman ray - 1 + 2 (1989)
[Frostii]_K-On!_-_01_[BD][B4E180E8].mkv
Karaki Jozu No Takagi-San [Ova] [720p WEB-DL] [JP + LATIN SPANISH (SUB) + ENGLISH (SUB)]
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Dragon Ball Z - Movie 09 - Bojack Unbound [4꞉3] [DVD-REMUX]
[-KS-] (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T) - 11 [1080p] [English Dub] [CC] [FUNI-DL] [933E4531]
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Dorohedoro - Ma no Omake (OVA)
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[FFA] Houkago Teibou Nisshi - 01 - 03 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
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[DmonHiro] Divergence Eve (DVD remux)
[Erai-raws] Nami yo Kiite Kure - 12 END [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Nami yo Kiite Kure - 12 END [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Listeners - 12 END [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Listeners - 12 END [720p].mkv
[Kuroi-Subs] Tower of God - 01 [HEVC 1080p] [JAP+KOR] [0B882D26]
[YellowASS] Jyu-Oh-Sei Planet of the Beast King (2006) [WebRip 1080p AVC AAC]
[HorribleSubs] Nami yo Kiitekure (1-12) [720p] (Unofficial Batch)
ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! - 11 (Muse Asia YT 720p).mp4
[HorribleSubs] Listeners (1-12) [720p] (Unofficial Batch)
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[HorribleSubs] Nami yo Kiitekure - 12 [720p].mkv
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[HorribleSubs] Listeners - 12 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Listeners - 12 [360p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Listeners - 12 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Shin Sakura Taisen the Animation - 12 END [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Shin Sakura Taisen the Animation - 12 END [720p].mkv
Sorcerer On The Rocks (Chivas 1-2-3) OAV
[Chikichu] I Paid A Voice Actor To Read Some Stuff
[ZetaRebel] Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack [Dual Audio] (BD x264 1080p 8-bit FLAC)
[FFA] Shin Sakura Taisen the Animation - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[Raze] Sakura Wars the Animation - 12 x264 1080p 60fps.mkv
[neoHEVC] Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda [BD 1080p x265 HEVC] [Jpn-Ger] [Eng-Ger Subs]
[D0ugyB0y]A Whisker Away [1080p] [MULTI-SUBS].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Sakura Wars the Animation - 12 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Sakura Wars the Animation - 12 [360p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Sakura Wars the Animation - 12 [720p].mkv
[FFA] Zashiki Warashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
Spirited Away [HAV1T][1080p][AV1][OPUS]
[Erai-raws] Jashin-chan Dropkick 2nd Season - 11 [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Jashin-chan Dropkick 2nd Season - 11 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Zashikiwarashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Zashikiwarashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Zashiki Warashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [720p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Zashiki Warashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [480p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Zashiki Warashi no Tatami-chan - 11 [1080p].mkv
[FFA] Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise 2nd Season - 01 - 05 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[FFA] Kingdom 3rd Season - 01 - 04 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
Dragon Ball Super Episode 81 [1080p] Hindi Dubbed || Anime DubTube
[FFA] Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited - 02 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[FFA] Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited - 01 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[Anime Time] Great Pretender - 13 [1080p HEVC 10bit x265].mkv
[FFA] Great Pretender - 13 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[FFA] Olympia Kyklos - 01 - 04 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[FFA] Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara - 02 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[FFA] Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara - 01 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[Rikudou] Dragon Ball Z S3 Frieza Saga [Multi-Audio] (075-107) 1080p BD
[BDMV] Demon Lord, Retry / Maou-sama, Retry! Complete [US]
The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumita Dub
[FFA] Great Pretender - 14 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[HR] Kakushigoto - Batch - Season 1 [1080p HEVC] HR-MF
[EMBER] Great Pretender (Part-03 | Ep: 11-14) [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[-__-'] Orange Mirai [BD 1080]
[Die Hot 14 - My Hot Will Go On] Great Pretender - 14 [5B581E78].mkv
[Edge] Listeners [1080p][10Bii][x265]
Anime – New Episode [19 June 2020]
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Anime – New Episode [19 June 2020]
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[Anime Time] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! S1 [1080p HEVC 10bit x265][AAC][Eng Sub]
[Erai-raws] Kakushigoto - 12 END [1080p].mkv
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[HorribleSubs] Kakushigoto - 12 [1080p].mkv
[FFA] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[HR] Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshō! - S01E12 [END][1080p HEVC] HR-MF
[OldCastle] Ashita e Attack - 15 [FFC2100F].mkv
[Judas] Shaman King (Season 1) [1080p][HEVC x265 10bit][Eng-Subs] (Batch)
[Erai-raws] Hachi-nantte Sore wa Nai Deshou! - 12 END [720p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[Erai-raws] Hachi-nantte Sore wa Nai Deshou! - 12 END [1080p][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! - 12 [1080p].mkv
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[HorribleSubs] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! - 12 [480p].mkv
[Anime Time] Shinmai Maou no Testament [Dual Audio][1080p Bluray][HEVC 10bit x265][AAC]
Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu WEB-DL 1080p (Multi-Sub)
[FFA] Youkoso Japari Park - 01 - 29 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[FFA] Gal to Kyouryuu - 01 - 07 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[FFA] Digimon Adventure (2020) - 01 - 03 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[ZetaRebel] Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (BD x264 1080p 8-bit FLAC)
Pokemon The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (High Quality)(Dual Audio) MKV [1080p] Blu-Ray Rip
[Hikki] Komatta Jii-san 11 [1080p] / Komatta Baa-san 01
[df68] Naruto Season 4 - Part 1 (142-162) [BD][800p][x264][JPN][SUB]
[FFA] Great Pretender - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[HR] Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai (Season1+2+3)(BD Batch + OVAs + Specials) [1080p] [x265]
[Warm] A Whisker Away (2020) [WEB AVC EAC3 1080p]
[TTGA] Val x Love (Season 1) [BD Remux] [1080p FLAC AVC]
[DmonHiro] The Gargoyle Of The Yoshinagas 01 (DVD, 396p)
[Die Hot 12 - No Time to Die Hot] Great Pretender - 12 [7B75DD4E].mkv
[tempsub] Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens - Episode 6 - 720p
[HorribleSubs] Hundred (01-12) [1080p] (Unofficial Batch)
[o̷Po̷L] Tekkon Kinkreet (2006) [BD 1080 HEVC] [DUAL-AUDIO 5.1 OPUS]
[Raze] Tower of God - 12 x264 1080p 60fps.mkv
[Raze] Plunderer - 23 x264 1080p 60fps.mkv
[AM][AniMecha] Brain Powered (Dual-Audio) (xVid)
[SubSmith] Utawarerumono OVA + Specials
[LadyPhantomhiveSubs] Goulart Knights: Evoked THE Beginning Black
Tower of God - 06 (Kami no Tou) [Multi Audio] [1080p HEVC]
[Erai-raws] Plunderer - 23 [1080p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Plunderer - 23 [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Tamayomi - 12 END [720p].mkv
[Erai-raws] Tamayomi - 12 END [1080p].mkv
[-KS-] Plunderer - 15 [1080p] [English Dub] [CC] [FUNi-DL] [1A12E7EC]
[-KS-] Plunderer - 15 [720p] [English Dub] [CC] [FUNi-DL] [1B9AD853]
[-KS-] Tower of God (Kami no Tou) - 06 [1080p] [English Dub] [Crunchyroll] [983927E3]
[-KS-] Tower of God (Kami no Tou) - 06 [720p] [English Dub] [Crunchyroll] [F1474C9F]
[-KS-] Run with the Wind (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru) - 06 [1080p] [English Dub]
[-KS-] Run with the Wind (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru) - 06 [1080p] [English Dub]
[-KS-] BanG Dream! 2nd Season - 09 [1080p] [English Dub] [HIDIVE] [56BF4227]
[-KS-] BanG Dream! 2nd Season - 09 [720p] [English Dub] [HIDIVE] [554FB1A4]
[HorribleSubs] Ao Haru Ride (01-12) [1080p] (Unofficial Batch)
[Bio] Tower of God - 12.ass (edited names)
[Judas] Plunderer - 23 [1080p][HEVC x265 10bit][Eng-Subs] (Weekly)
[SS-Eclipse] Shakugan no Shana Movie (XviD) [7176C428].avi
Tower of God (Kami no Tou) - 12 Dual Audio (JAP+KOR) [1080p].mkv
[EMBER] Tower of God aka Kami no Tou S01E12 [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[Cleo] Senryuu Shoujo | Senryuu Girl [Dual Audio 10bit BD1080p][HEVC-x265]
[Lumpstud] Eiga Kuma no Gakkou - Patissier Jackie to Ohisama no Sweets [English Softsub]
[FFA] Plunderer - 23 [1080p][HEVC][AAC].mkv
[Anime Time] Plunderer - 23 [1080p HEVC 10bit x265].mkv
[HorribleSubs] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! [1080p][Unofficial Batch]
[Anime Time] A Whisker Away - Movie (2020) [1080p][HEVC 10bit x265][AAC][Multiple Subtitle].mkv
[SubsDeLaRosa]Red Baron 28 (720p)
[EMBER] Kakushigoto S01E12 [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[Raze] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! - 12 x264 1080p 60fps.mkv
[EMBER] Kakushigoto (Hidden Things) (Season 1) [1080p] [HEVC WEBRip]
[FFA] Kakushigoto (2020) - 01 - 12 [1080p][HEVC][AAC]
[EMBER] Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou! (Season1) [1080p] [WEBRip]
[mottoj] Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (BDRip 1280x720 HEVC AAC)
[neoHEVC] UN-GO + Inga-Ron [BD 1080p x265 HEVC AAC]
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Anime – New Episode [18 June 2020]
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Anime – New Episode [18 June 2020]
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 - Episode 10 [Review]
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Arte - Episode 11 [Review]
Of all of the things Arte has had to think about since her arrival in Venice, the hardest has been herself. That's not what she had expected – especially after meeting Katarina, Arte (and some of the viewers) thought that the biggest challenge she'd face was getting the little girl into shape, with painting Signora Sofia's portrait as a pleasant distraction from that task. But the more she got to know Katarina, the more Arte began to really think about her own position from an angle she hadn't considered before: that truly, in the context of other women of her social standing, she's been incredibly fortunate.
As I discussed last week, Arte's caring father (and to a lesser degree her worried/frustrated mother) gave her the chance to indulge herself in what she loves and is good at. Yes, she had to give up her more pampered lifestyle as a noblewoman, but the tradeoff was that she got to paint and study fine arts. That's not an opportunity Katarina had and, as Matei pointed out this week, not one that most women, noble or otherwise, ever get. (Insert rant about butchering Darcia's storyline here. It would have made a major difference to how this element of the Venice arc played out.) It was one thing for Arte to learn Katarina's story, because Katarina does have her uncle Yuri; it's entirely another to listen to Matei because what he notices isn't that Arte is lucky “for a woman,” it's that Arte's social status and gender are actually helping her to get work because she stands out as an anomaly in the art world. Matei, who is clearly older than Arte and has likely been an apprentice much longer than she has, remains essentially trapped in his master's workshop because he hasn't stood out sufficiently in his skill or by other means and hasn't caught a patron's eye. Arte, by virtue of her differences, has been hired six months-to-a-year after starting her apprenticeship, and by a major family of Venice to boot. Where all Arte saw were her struggles, Matei sees her good fortune, and that's less of a wakeup call and more of a physical blow to her.
Not that she thinks Matei is being cruel, which is how Katarina interprets his words. Instead Arte takes his statements and uses them as a lens through which to view her Venetian life…and what she sees isn't something that makes her proud as an artist. It's hard to deny that things have been much cushier in the Falier palazzo than they were for quite some time, and given her family's lesser-noble status, it's entirely possible that she's never lived like she is at Chez Falier. Unlike her time at Leo's she doesn't have errands to run or cleaning to do because there are servants for that sort of thing, darling, and her only actual artistic tasks are painting Sofia's and Katarina's portraits. We've seen her sort of wander into the odd church to sketch, but it's obviously been nowhere near the level of artistic practice that she was engaged in at Leo's workshop. Seeing Matei's hard work come to basically nothing – and looking at his battered and calloused hands – forces Arte to wake up and realize what she started to be more aware of last week: her privilege.
To us in the 21st century it doesn't necessarily look like that, but in Renaissance Italy, Arte really is pretty fortunate – she could conceivably be married to someone like Leo's gruff patron back in Florence, only much more abusive. Instead she's able to work at what she loves, and after her talk with Matei, she doubles down on that, racing to finish the portraits of the Falier women. Although she doesn't ever say it, there's a definite feeling that she might be doing this not just because she's moderately ashamed of her good fortune compared to many other apprentices, but because what she truly wants to do is go home – home to Florence, yes, but also home to Leo. Even if we assume that she's largely over her crush (please, please be largely over your crush), he's still her family in that he has become her main support in life, where in Venice she's had to be Katarina's. That Leo, Angelo, and everyone else in Florence miss her too is sweet, and almost certainly a sign that she'll decide with her heart rather than her head to go back next week (the episode title “apprentice” seeming to signal that that's how she sees herself). That feels like it would be a fitting end, and we'll find out if it's true next week.
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War Season 2 - Episode 10 [Review]
With Shuchiin's annual sports festival on everyone's mind, this week's Kaguya-sama: Love is War delivers a more thematically unified string of segments than usual. The sole exception is episode 10's introductory story, which shines a spotlight on Kei, who's torn between offering comfort to her dejected brother and remaining beholden to her newly-awakened rebellious phase. However, when Miyuki, who's crestfallen by Kaguya's recent avoidance, receives depressingly impractical advice from their father, Kei overcomes her teenage angst to reassure her brother that everything is probably okay between him and his crush. When Kaguya utilizes her new calming ritual at school the following day and resumes regular interaction with him, Miyuki sees that he was ultimately worried over nothing.
In addition to offering up a number of amusing Kei moments, this segment provides us with our first extended look at Miyuki's home life. The manner in which Miyuki continually nags his sister—and Kei's reaction to said nagging—nicely illustrates how differently Miyuki's bullheaded personality and desire to be in control come across in a domestic setting than at school. Still, given that he and Kei have very little in the way of parental supervision, it's not surprising that he would take on such a role. The revelation that Miyuki and Kei's mother walked out on them and that Papa Shirogane is largely undependable also shine some light on how Miyuki developed his take-charge attitude and knack for hard work. While primarily used as a vehicle for comedy, Miyuki's depression over Kaguya's behavioral changes is certainly palpable. When someone you care about seemingly wants nothing to do with you, it can be difficult to consider reasons for this that don't involve them hating you—even though this might not be the case.
The second segment finds the perpetually rhythmless Miyuki struggling to learn the soran dance, which the second-years will be performing at the upcoming sports festival. In light of her struggles to tutor Miyuki in the past, Chika peaces out almost immediately, leaving Kaguya to step into the teacher role. However, upon seeing how quickly Miyuki moves on and how mechanical Kaguya's teaching technique is, Chika becomes jealous, inciting a fight between the two girls. Luckily, their conflict turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as breaking free from their combined grasp inadvertently helps Miyuki perfect the movements of the dance.
At the onset, this segment seems like it will be the usual “Chika struggles to teach Miyuki a basic skill” story, but by bringing Kaguya into the mix, the series does an entertaining job of shaking things up. While previous stories that followed this formula have been funny, the supply of jokes that can stem from Chika's exasperation at Miyuki's ineptitude seems to have been exhausted. Not only do we get a look at Chika's devious side in her criticisms of Kaguya's methods, we also see what is arguably the most direct conflict between Chika and Kaguya to date. Kaguya's beefs with Chika are usually one-sided and take place entirely in her mind, so seeing the two practically come to blows is an interesting change of pace. Furthermore, the differences in the girls' respective teaching techniques (Kaguya—whose motivation is really a desire to touch her crush—wants Miyuki to mechanically mimic the dance moves, whereas Chika wants him to appreciate the art behind the dance) serve as an adept microcosm of their personality gap. Hopefully, any future stories that involve Miyuki being tutored will follow a similarly chaotic path.
In this week's third segment, we're given some additional insight into Ishigami's largely unexplored past. While observing one of Miko's usual scuffles with Ishigami, Kobachi opines on how the latter was accused of stalking a girl and beating up her boyfriend in middle school and earning a lengthy suspension as a result. However, when Ishigami was in danger of not being able to enter Shuchiin's high school division in response to this incident, Miko went to bat for him and made his case to the headmaster. As we learn, Ishigami is still dealing with the fallout of all this and is widely reviled by his peers, and in spite of everything that's happened, he still refuses to share his side of the story. He's also covertly tried to stop the bullying of Miko over the years, leading Kobachi to conclude that the two have a lot in common.
While relatively short on laughs, this segment helps cast Ishigami in a new light. His lack of popularity was always assumed to stem from his extreme cynicism and edgelord demeanor, but learning that his status as a social pariah isn't comedic in nature adds a new layer of depth to his character. Despite constantly acting like he's above it all, Ishigami has been dealing with full-scale ostracization, and to some extent, it's possible that his usual abrasiveness serves as an emotional shield. Seeing both Miko and Kobachi stick up for Ishigami is touching, especially in light of all the bad blood between them, and it would nice (albeit not conducive to comedy) to see Ishigami and Miko become aware of the kindness they've shown one another at some point in the future. (It would also be a shame for the season to conclude before we're given the full story behind the purported stalking incident.)
The sports festival is in full-swing in this week's final segment. Thanks to a lack of steady employment, Papa Shirogane is able to attend—and begins embarrassing his son almost immediately. When Miyuki is able to get his father away from the festivities, the elder Shirogane encounters Kaguya, and after recognizing her as the girl he briefly spoke with on the phone the previous summer, needles her into revealing how she really feels about his son. After discovering the true identity of the man she's been talking to, Kaguya is predictably flustered, prompting a furious Miyuki to demand to know what his old man did to her. Meanwhile, encouraged by scores of cheering peers, Ishigami and Kazeno, the cheerleading squad's president, take first place in the two-legged race as a mysterious figure (presumably the girl from the stalking incident, who has since transferred schools) watches from a distance.
After learning more about his backstory, seeing Ishigami take first place and flash a genuine smile as he crosses the finish line feels incredibly gratifying. However, while the unanswered questions about Ishigami's past are still very much a point of interest, Papa Shirogane emerges as the final segment's MVP. When he tricks Kaguya into defending Miyuki, he reveals that his surface quirks belie a penchant for manipulation that rivals his son's. Although Kaguya's true feelings for Miyuki are no secret to the viewer, her reiteration that Miyuki—and by extension, Chika and Ishigami—essentially restored her faith in humanity is a touching reminder of the beating heart that lurks beneath all psychological warfare and constant one-upmanship.
With a figure from Ishigami's past potentially set to reemerge, Kaguya-sama: Love is War once again leaves the audience hungry for more. Whether laughs are on the horizon or the forthcoming events take on a more dramatic tone, Kaguya-sama is likely to have no trouble sticking the landing.
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive - Episode 11 [Review]
“In which we learn Pecorine's biggest strength is, in fact, a double-edged sword.”
This episode begins lazily enough with Karyl attempting to sleep in even as the others call her to breakfast. What she doesn't expect is that by not responding, she sends Pecorine into panic mode.
As someone who lives to eat, the only reason Pecorine can imagine that someone wouldn't come down to breakfast is that there is something physically stopping them from doing so. Thus, she runs outside and breaks into Karyl's room through the window to “save” her from this non-existent threat—damaging Karyl's favorite stuffed animal in the process.
While a bit of a silly scene and little more than the impetus to get our heroes into the city for the rest of the episode on the surface, it's also a stark reminder of the big issue with Percorine. Karyl tries to sum it up by saying that Pecorine has no sense of personal privacy—but that's just a side-effect of the real problem. Pecorine is unable to see the world from any viewpoint other than her own. Hell, it's more than that: she is completely unable to understand that people as a whole do not share her worldview.
It is her greatest strength and also her greatest weakness. Time and again we've seen her basically bully reality into fitting her ideal—be it Karyl's aversion of her or the two thugs stealing her sword. Most of the time, due to her sheer force of will and her pure spirit, it works out for the better. But as we see in this episode, sometimes it does not. This time the result is just the destruction of a window and a stuffed animal, but what happens next time?
The majority of the episode, on the other hand, deals with Yuuki's encounters with his pre-amnesia companions Shizune and Rino. With the shadow monsters from the woods now attacking people in the city, Shizune and Rino have been sent to make sure that Yuuki remains safe.
What's odd is that the pair are not aware of the identities of Yuuki's new companions. Rino, for one, looks at Kokkoro as a rival in love—unaware that she has received a message from God to act as Yuuki's guide and servant. This in turn begs the question of how much of what's going on are they actually aware of. They know about Yuuki's amnesia and the shadow monsters but are unaware of the specifics of Yuuki's new life. It'll be interesting to discover why this is, as well as why they're supposed to protect him without interacting with him.
The rest of the episode is setup for what is to come. Karyl's master has created a super shadow monster that drains life force from anything in its proximity and sends it out into the city. At the same time, ominous forces with unclear goals are coalescing on the city—and seemingly at cross purposes to each other.
All in all, this episode is a collection of tantalizing hints with very few solid answers—be they about Yuuki's backstory or setting the stage for the final two episodes. At the same time, it manages to introduce four new characters and explore the problematic aspect of one of our main heroines. Solid stuff.
Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!
Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!
نام انیمه: Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!
نام انیمه: 八男って、それはないでしょう！
نام انیمه: Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!
نام انیمه: The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?
نام انیمه: هشتمین پسر؟ شوخی میکنی دیگه؟
ژانر: Action, Fantasy, Isekai, Reincarnation
تاریخ پخش: بهار 2020
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمتها: 12 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 23 دقیقه
منبع: Light novel
استودیو: SynergySP, Shin-Ei Animation
تهیه کننده: Kikushima Kazufumi
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
شینگو ایچینومیا، مردی ۲۵ ساله که در یک شرکت کار میکند، وقتی که درحال فکر کردن به روز شلوغ کاری فردا ست به خواب میرود. امّا، زمانی که بیدار میشود، خود را درون اتاقی ناآشنا پیدا میکند و متوجه میشود که درون بدن یک بچهی ۶ ساله است و بدن و ذهنش را تسخیر کرده. به زودی او از خاطرات پسر بچه متوجه میشود که او کوچکترین فرزند یک خانوادهی اشرافزادهی فقیر است که در نقطهای دور افتاده زندگی میکنند. چون او فاقد استعداد مدیریت است نمیتواند کاری برای مدیریت املاک وسیع خانوادهاش انجام دهد. امّا خوشبختانه او استعداد کمیابی دارد، استعداد جادو. متآسفانه، با اینکه استعداد او میتواند برای خانواده موفقیت به ارمغان آورد، در وضعیت او فقط مصیبت به همراه دارد. این آغاز داستان این پسر بچه، وِندِلین فن بِنو بائومایستر، در این دنیای سخت و خشن است.
خلاصه داستان (منبع)
Waking up in a new world, 25-year-old Shingo Ichinomiya realizes that he is in the body of a six-year-old. Retaining memories of his stressful life working at a firm company, Shingo learns that the person he is occupying is Wendelin Von Benno Baumeister, the eighth son of a poor noble family living in the countryside. Awoken to his bizarre situation, Wendelin strives to change his financial and social status for the better. His newly discovered great magical aptitude may prove to be just what he needs to achieve that goal.
Yesterday wo Utatte
Yesterday wo Utatte
نام انیمه: Yesterday wo Utatte
نام انیمه: イエスタデイをうたって
نام انیمه: Sing "Yesterday" for Me
ژانر: Drama, Romance, Adult Cast, Love Polygon, Seinen
تاریخ پخش: بهار 2020
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمتها: 12 قسمت
مدت زمان هر قسمت: 23 دقیقه
منبع: Manga
استودیو: Doga Kobo
تهیه کننده: Kabashima Manami
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
بعد از دانشگاه، ریکوئو اوزومی، پسری که تو زندگیش آرزو و هدف های زیادی نداره، توی یه سوپر مارکت استخدام میشه. زندگی بدون هیچ اتفاق خاصی برای ریکوئو پیش میره تا وقتی که همکلاسی و دوست دختر قبلیش رو میبینه، اما مخصوصا بخاطر هارو نوناکایِ عجیب و کلاغش...
خلاصه داستان (منبع)
Rikuo Uozumi has all but resigned himself to a bleak future, aimlessly working at a convenience store in Tokyo after graduating from college. His monotonous life is interrupted when the peculiar Haru Nonaka makes a lively appearance, frequently dropping by his workplace to befriend him. When Rikuo learns that an old college friend and crush, Shinako Morinome, has moved back into town, he reaches out to further their relationship. Unbeknownst to Rikuo however, Shinako is carrying painful memories from her past that were holding her back from accepting his feelings. Meanwhile, as Haru continually opens up to Rikuo, he discovers that she, much like him, is living by herself and wants to step out of her comfort zone into an uncertain future.
The past lingers long in the mind, and the future remains elusive. At a crossroads along their intertwined paths, these three experience what it means to let go of their feelings of yesterday and embrace the change that tomorrow brings.