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Why Does Nobody Remember #01 — Carefully Hidden Giant Open Pyramid

  They’ve just got a glowing Excalibur in a giant pyramid right outside the front door? Impressions: Seven or eight years ago, this would have been just one of a half dozen indistinguishable light novel adaptations about a dude with a magic sword in a squad of action teenagers that are mostly hot babes. Nowadays, …

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First Impressions – Bye Bye, Earth

We seem to be watching Lidenfilms display their upward mobility. There’s long been a hierarchy among specialist TV anime studios, and while you’d get some disagreement on the exact membership, it generally includes the likes of KyoAni, Bones, and Production I.G./Wit. They’re the studios production committees with a lot of pazoozas (like ones for big …

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Nier Automata v1.1a #14 — Mass Android Penetration

  Template template template template. Impressions: Maybe I’ll just accept that Fridays are high fantasy day with mediocre action shows; turn off my brain and bask in the torrent of vocabulary that I can barely understand and pretend like I’m taking biochemistry and happily nodding along as everything passes in one ear and out the …