Overdrive: I’ve never seen a show drag like this ever before. Naruto looks like the frickin’ Shinkansen in comparision. Sure shounen shows are more or less supposed to drag, it’s their bread and butter after all but this is just getting ridiculous, and as if they’re trying to drive home a point half of episode […]

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I haven’t really been paying attention to the Saimoe tournament at all, but I randomly decided to check a post from Moetron and saw something outrageous! Yuno losing to some bitch from Higurashi? My Yuno, losing!? From now on I’ll actively discourage anyone from taking part in this tournament as it’s clearly detrimental to your […]

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Claymore was one of those very rare shounen series that I actually enjoyed on a higher basis than “I’m watching it because I’m bored”. It had all powerups and predictable fights that you can expect from a shounen show but yet it was somehow different from the usual fare. Despite the fights following the predictable […]

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Oh man, Otani was incredibly dense this episode, even by his standards. You’d think he’d get it after two people, including Risa herself, said it straight up and when everyone except him knows who Risa likes. Even the painfully obvious hints Risa offered at the end of the episode very barely got through. Still, it […]

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Now what? They’ve removed the crazy from Gurenn Lagann and with that effectively removed any appeal the series had for me. The prospect of sitting through the rest of the episodes watching Simon “grow and mature” shounen style feels about as exciting as watching paint dry. Throw in a romance between Yoko and him and […]

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