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Gods Wanna Play Games #01 — Rule Recitation

  Now that’s what we call scene composition. Impressions: Boy, this almost makes me regret dragging the previous show for excessive exposition and zero animation. Good god, it was bad. Not just even because they were playing some stupid self-introduction game, but they also had to explain it, explain how they both have eidetic memories, …

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Where Does the Doomsday Train Go? #01 — Crazyish Train

  I understand the premise. Please stop repeating it. Impressions: My impressions from the promos was that this wouldn’t be too wacky, but boy, did the opening minutes try to go out of their way to prove me wrong, and then followed it up by making a concerted effort to be really, really tediously boring. Okay, so …

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Neon Genesis Evangelion – Episode 17

Rather than referring to some psychoanalytical concept or opaque descriptor of the drama to come, Neon Genesis Evangelion’s seventeenth episode is named, quite simply, “Fourth Child.” It is a name that refers to NERV’s conceptually vague yet tonally specific designations for the Eva pilots – Rei is the first child, Asuka the second, and Shinji …