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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel 12 (End) and Quickie Scores (9/10)
Before this episode I was perfectly willing to stick the show with an 8 or a 9 for an effective variation of comedy and combat that had a first gear that it wasn’t always in. Thankfully, this was one...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 11
It seems like a bit of a truism to say that SF has changed significantly since the beginning of the show. While it’s true that the show has upped the ante in a number of ways since the main duo...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 12 (End) and Quickie Scores (6/10)
I suppose I could wait until dishing on the episode itself to call this show a disappointment, but that is what it is. The shoddy serious plot handicapped a fun cast and a skilled director, and...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 11
If it hasn’t been abundantly clear, I love the way this show just faces 12 o’clock down a straight line and does what it wants with supreme gusto. Lining up 22 frickin’ battleships in a row and...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 10
This show seems to be getting returns on everything. Way back in episode 4 when Mari was introduced, it seemed like her too-aggressive side was ultimately going to be used for comical purposes, and...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 11
From the beginning, Kyoukai no Kanata reminded me of a mid-major series; the type of show laced with explosive potential and nuclear flaws for which execution makes the difference between all-time and...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 10
I have to admit, I was expecting a lot more of this episode to focus on the rest of the cast’s effort to rescue the now-submerged Iona and Gunzou. I wasn’t expecting, or even really hoping for, a focus...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 9
King Torture’s organization is a really big enigma at this point. It’s got the Sunred comically incompetent villains, but it’s also got a definite second gear that puts it on a creepily effective...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 10
This is honestly a hard episode to comment on. Five minutes in, I was all ready to put on my hype hat and just shower it with praise for sidestepping the colossal, ill-conceived excess drama that...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 9
If I had to list of things I really like about the show at this point, after putting down the whole “you can’t stop the future” attitude behind its production, the next thing immediately on the list...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 9
It’s a testament to the chemistry the show’s been building between the main four that the drama over Akihito’s transformation this time felt as real as it did. I particularly liked the scene where...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 8
Eschewing my usual order for this week for the obvious reasons, plus the fact that I’m a day late getting to everything that came out since Monday. Samurai Flamenco is the Allen Iverson of the Fall...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 8
I was expecting a more straightforward head-on confrontation after the arrangement of battleships opposite one another last week, but this show surprised me again. It was a sense of surprise that went...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 7
This is only the second episode of the year to which my immediate reaction was to go back and watch the whole damn thing over again. While the last four minutes of it will understandably get the most...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 8
I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the show’s promise of more plot, and this episode was more or less what I expected in that regard. The worst part was the scene with Miroku in the car with...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 7
One of the fun things of reading a manga or watching an anime that didn’t start out with a rock-solid grasp of its own identity is the sometimes-futile-but-always-amusing attempts to meld a bunch of...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 6
Insofar as this show appears to be attempting to dial up the zany each week, this episode’s chase scene/gadget showcase definitely qualified as an upgrade in that department. For one thing, chase...
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First Reactions: Kyoukai no Kanata Episode 7
This week Kyoukai no Kanata decided to start facing up to some of the loose ends it dropped during the Hollow Shadow arc. One of them, Sakura’s murky quest for revenge, was more or less fully dealt...
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First Reactions: Arpeggio of Blue Steel Episode 6
Though this week’s episode featured a battle about as explosive as the rest of them in the series, it lacked the punch of episodes 2 and 4. The main reason for that is that, while the first two battles...
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First Reactions: Samurai Flamenco Episode 5
There are a couple of primary rules to following modern anime that I’ve discovered since first getting into it in 2007, something I feel I should mention because I violated one of them last week: 1....
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