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Thesarum
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Dialing back the wacky this week for a dose of TRAUMA.
(Because, let's be honest, a blond twintailed zombie queen hardly qualifies as wacky for this show)
Yeah, this is the charitable take. But also probably a fair one. The distance between them right now, physically and emotionally, is probably as big as it can get. They're working on the physical side of things, but Shizuru has a bunch of growing up to do before they can fix the other part. |
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Yuvelir
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Shizuru's attitude was a bit of a surprise, specially her mean words toward Touka, but who surprised me most was Nadeshiko. In wanting to fulfill that "group mom" role that first time Shizuru was too cold toward Pochi her degree of hostility became a tad unreasonable, and her later "we're not talking until you calm down, little miss" attitude was proof that she has neither the maturity nor the awareness to pull it off.
It's the second time for me. Although for that game it was actually just a bunch of oversized insects that looked like zombies. |
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NeverConvex
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I did not expect the train anime to be this good. The chemistry between the core cast is equal parts hilarious and endearing.
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pi8you
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[O Maidens in Your 7G Season intensifies]
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MartinWisse
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Mervyn Griffith-Jones warned us but we wouldn't listen. He said you don't want your servants or wife to read this but we laughed.
And now we have anime girls reciting Lady's Chatterly's Lover to explode zombies through sheer pornographic excitement. |
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Dop.L
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Dang, you beat me to the Mervyn Griffith-Jones reference! I mean, really the trial of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act for publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 was a major landmark in British culture. |
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Yuvelir
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After Wonder Egg Priority I thought I never wanted to hear about that topic. I thought wrong. |
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Thesarum
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The decapitation pop! The monotone voice that distorts slightly at the point of explosion! The sound design for this episode was perfection.
As was the headline moment of the episode of course, Akira reciting lewd literature from memory. Greatly enjoying Steve's reviews too. Feel free to go full English Major mode any time Steve. I love some overthinking of shows this stupid/smart. |
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Hellsoldier
Posts: 761 Location: Porto,Portugal,Europe,Earth,Sol |
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On episode 4, after seeing a floating stomach in the sky, I had decided: This is weirder and wilder than FLCL. And that is quite something. Also, Rolling Girls was mentioned at some point. Loved that anime, but... this is wilder.
This is quite simply one of the craziest anime rides I've had thus far. Akira reading Marquis de Sade nailed it for me. |
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dm
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Is kind of amazing that the guy in the boat who gave them the map survived all this. The map does still seem to work, though.
Early in the episode we got the Wandering Rocks from The Odyssey, maybe? We had Lotus Eaters in the Mushroom People, and I’m wondering if this Alice in Newtons Land might also be a little bit of Odysseus’ journey to the underworld, with all it’s dark memories revealed and dark portents prophesied (in the form of “evil queen Yoka”). I have a feeling this series is going to repay multiple viewings by the time it is over. |
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