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A lot of people were very disappointed at the ending of Oreimo. While it was hardly unpredictable, it seems many wanted a full incest ending. I certainly wouldn’t have minded myself, but I think it is dangerous to allow personal feelings to get in the way of appreciating the value of the story.

Now as an anime, I’m willing to admit that Oreimo had its flaws. Several, annoying, even fatal flaws. As you know by now, Oreimo is a …

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White Fox adapted this from the light novel Katanagatari, and although they have the same author and a similar name, it has no connection to the Monogatari series in style, substance or story. The two main characters romp through a mythologized version of feudal Japan, neatly divided into formulaic episodes, collecting swords and killing fucking everyone they see.

Katanagatari is by no means a terrible anime, but if you look at the way it is treated, you …

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A-1 brings us the touching anime-original story of four shapely butts as they fight off aliens, or monsters, or something. Oh yeah, there are girls attached to these butts and they have characterization and stuff. And there’s a beach episode with boobs, but they give way back to butts. And then there’s a fifth butt, this one gets a close up within twenty seconds of the show starting, really setting the tone for the rest of the show.

Now seriously let’s …

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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Before reading this review, I highly recommend you give a quick glance to this site: http://gallantlab.org/. The dystopian world of Psycho-Pass is becoming more science and less fiction.

In early 22^nd century Japan, it has become possible to analyze a human mind with a startling degree of accuracy using a network of scanners …

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Sakamichi no Apollon translates to “Apollo of the slope,” not “Kids on the Slope,” so whatever translation you want to use really doesn’t matter. Kids on a Slope may look on the surface like a typical clichéd romance anime with lots of misunderstandings, too much drama, love polygons and people sort-of-but-not-really changing who they love. You may be tempted to think that’s all Adolescents on an Incline is, and you should give in to that temptation because …

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Could you kill a person?

I don’t mean some hypothetical “button you could press and someone you’ve never met dies.” I mean: could you look into the eyes of another human being and pull the trigger?

For a long time now Gen Urobuchi and I have had a love/hate relationship. I’ve absolutely adored some of his works, while others have left me profoundly underwhelmed. Phantom Requiem, however, does not neatly fall into either of these categories. Some parts …

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I just so happen to be a fan of moe, a huge fan of moe. In fact I like moe so much that if I don’t watch at least one moe show a season I am afraid I will shrivel up and die. In spring 2013 that show just so happened to be Yuyushiki, but before the season started I looked to Aiura as a potential supplement. Sort of like a multivitamin, you need a healthy diet, but it can’t hurt to have extra. Unfortunately this show was so lacking in substance that a …

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There are very few anime with as bad a case of mistaken identity as Sound of the Sky, also known as Sora no Woto or, if you’re kind of a jerk, So Ra No Wo To. Honestly most people will take one look at the art and character designs and think one thing:

And this is really a shame because other than a couple of similarities in character design, Sound of the Sky shines on its own with no relation under the surface to our favorite (or least favorite) slice of …

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Jump in your future gadget, fire up your soul gem or prepare your other preferred method of time travel, take my hand and come with me. We are going to take a trip to the past.

Not to dinosaurs or the Berlin wall, that’s too far, I want to show you 2002. The Winter Olympics were just saved by a little known CEO of Bain Capital, the American “War on Terror” in Afghanistan is at its heyday and cassette players in cars are quite a normal thing. But more …