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About Holland and Talho
Volume Eight of Eureka Seven to me was about Holland and Talho. Sure, some big plot things happened, revealing the big bad evil plans of Colonel Dewey (just a colonel?), but evil Dewey stuff is kind of backburner to me at this point when watching this show. What makes Eureka Seven awesome to me are [...]
My Otome DVD vol. 1
Over the years anime studios have come up with scores of variations on the cutie weapon. My-Otome continues the tradition of girlie armaments with an earnestness that has me wanting to tell Sunrise and Bandai, please make more. I love this franchise. It feels like it does exactly what it meant to do, and that’s [...]
Black Lagoon vol. 1
From the second I hit play, I knew Black Lagoon was two-hands of awesome. I love the opening of the show. It’s got guitar on shredd, pounding drums, and some rock diva screaming into the microphone. Lately, openings have been very pop driven, glossy, and polite. An opening with shredded guitars like in Black Lagoon [...]
GUNxSWORD Volume 7: Last Rites
GunxSword ends well. I knew it would, because through and through it was a well plotted road trip adventure. In the beginning, it might not have felt that way, seeming like it was going to do the standard anime thing and waste the first eight episodes on throwaway plots that are just lame vehicles for [...]
