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Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 11
Maybe it would be more appropriate if I said this is “an episode that shoots for the stars…except, in this universe, all of the constellations have been replaced with crudely drawn doodles of big butts and bouncing boobs."
Tamon's B-Side ‒ Episode 12
I just want to stand on a roof and yell about what a great episode we got this week.
Champignon Witch ‒ SEASON FINALE
Life goes on, whether you’re a white witch, a black one, or something else entirely. The important thing is to keep trying and keep moving forward.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 58
This is probably the most frustrating episode of JJK so far this season, and I can’t wait to wash the taste of it out of my mouth next week with one of my favorite bouts from the manga.
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ SEASON FINALE
SHIBOYUGI is an indulgent tonic of equal parts empathy and anger that invites us to luxuriate in an elegy for a world gone insane.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 10
To be treated as a girl is to be considered beautiful. To be considered dateable by boys and not dateable by other girls.
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ Episode 11
Will the goddess of discord’s grail be filled to the brim with blood? Or will someone spill it and finally put the past to rest?
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ Episode 24
With traditional exorcism methods out of the question, Nube saves the day with something he’s particularly skilled at: empathy and heartfelt tears.
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 11
It's only fair that this follow-up episode is a bit more mechanically minded in getting all its gene-spliced ducks back in a row.
Hana-Kimi ‒ SEASON FINALE
Slice-of-life sitcoms like Hana-Kimi don't need to be a tightly-woven tapestry, but this is closer to a moth-eaten mesh.
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ Episode 11
It's not that the show is devoid of ideas, it's just that it lacks the time, space, and structure to articulate them effectively.
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ Episode 10
The way Aqua is making an enemy out of me, he should think twice before standing on a cliff.
Journal with Witch ‒ Episode 11
Journal with Witch paints an entire tableau with a few lines of dialogue. It casts light onto indeterminate shapes lurking within my soul.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ Episode 10
Perhaps this is yet another layer of narrative fakery, and episode eleven or twelve will culminate in a heartbreakingly nihilistic orgy of bloody ultra-violence where no-one survives.
Wash It All Away ‒ Episode 11
This episode comes across as a bag of the most mixed, divided of sorts: a second half that is as “what you see is what you get” as it comes, and a first half that’s just...there.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ Episode 24
This episode is finally hitting a lot of notes that I’ve been begging for all season!
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter ‒ Episode 11
Seiichiro and Aresh’s relationship is so delightfully mutual now – they can call each other out on little things, yearn to be closer in ways they culturally understand, and are just so damn cute.
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ Episode 60
Animation issues aside, there’s a lot to love in this episode, and I hope future installments manage to look as good as this caliber of writing deserves.
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ Episode 10
This episode of Hell's Paradise does something that I didn't realize the series could do.
Rooster Fighter ‒ SERIES PREMIERE
It's what makes Keiji such an on-target protagonist. He embodies all the heroic traits, from his rippling chicken thighs to his relentless womanizing, but he's also… well, he's a chicken.
Fate/strange Fake ‒ Episode 11
Ayaka inspires Richard to dream again—to not be tied down by the grim reality he often lived.
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ Episode 10
While we're gonna have to wait a bit to see how each of these romantic escapades play out, the fact these pairs all have something going on is a testament to how well this show is handling its balancing act.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 ‒ Episode 8
It's not what a person believes that makes them good or evil, but rather the actions they choose to take. And Stark and Genau constantly make choices that firmly place them on the side of the angels.
Roll Over and Die ‒ Episode 10
Unfortunately, the content of this episode is only slightly more interesting than the murky fog rolling throughout the city.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ Episode 10
We can see the scales of battle tipping back and forth in a constant 60/40 to 40/60 and back again.
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ Episode 10
Meeting your partner's family is always complicated to a certain degree
Gnosia ‒ SERIES FINALE
It could have been worse, but it could have been so much better, too.
Dead Account ‒ Episode 10
Just when you thought this fight couldn’t be padded anymore, it does with the usual fanfare of unnecessary flashbacks and still animation.
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 22
Unfortunately, while the episode is just fine, it doesn't do nearly enough to capitalize on its opportunities.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 4
While this episode would have still been fine if all we got out of it was Inori's performance, it's what happens off the ice that makes this one shine
Champignon Witch ‒ Episode 11
If there are black witches and white witches, could there also be grey witches? Because right now, that’s what the Bird Magician is looking like to me.
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 10
For once, the show truly has no time to waste on the smut that it can't save for gratuitous after-credits stingers. Even the one in-universe of fanservice that we get from Kuusetsu is meant to be an ominous spank-bank deposit.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 57
Someone get Takaba’s agent on the line! I don’t know what “it” is, but he’s got it!
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ Episode 10
Yuki can still recognize the awful waste of this violence for what it is, even as she participates in the system that set it all in motion. Even as she profits from it. Even as she Survives within it.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 9
After some light sightseeing, the group makes their way to the Ichimura family vacation home and… I’m sorry, but are they in a concrete bunker?
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ Episode 10
It’s not just about Scarlett anymore: it’s about Randolph, whose marriage to Lily Orlamunde made him feel unlovable and lonely.
Tamon's B-Side ‒ Episode 11
I can’t bear to think that we only have two episodes of Tamon left now.
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ Episode 23
Sometimes, for a daft comedy-horror show, Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube can be surprisingly poignant.
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ Episode 9
When Oshi No Ko claims to be generalizing about the industry, what it’s really doing is talking about itself.
Journal with Witch ‒ Episode 10
I'm happy and impressed that Journal with Witch allows Emiri space to vent her darkest and most resentful thoughts.
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 10
The Darwin Incident is raising bizarre questions about how the audience is supposed to regard the humanzee hero, as he's regularly framed as a nightmarishly powerful inhuman with scary glowing eyes.
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ Episode 9
After spending a lifetime trying to perfect something that makes them live forever, the greatest release from all of their suffering was death.
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ Episode 10
Even an awareness of its messiness and pacing issues can't fully save Yoroi-Shinden from the effects of its messiness and pacing issues.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ Episode 23
My real investment in this arc depends on how well the show sells me on Captain Celebrity.
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter ‒ Episode 10
It’s a good thing that Seiichirou has finally admitted to himself that he loves Aresh, because some serious healing is going to need to happen very soon.
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ Episode 59
After this episode, I’m rooting for these beautiful, broken people harder than ever and hope to celebrate their triumph in the episodes to come.
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ Episode 9
This episode reaffirms to me that as cute as Miyu and Tani are as a couple, they can't quite carry this whole show on their own.
Wash It All Away ‒ Episode 10
Best Girl being back is enough of a reason to celebrate.
Fate/strange Fake ‒ Episodes 9-10
n a way, this battle is a fight largely unlike those we've seen in Fate anime as the impetus behind the conflict is a purely altruistic one rather than a selfish one.
Roll Over and Die ‒ Episode 9
Roll Over and Die sometimes surprises me with its emotional intelligence. I just wish it could balance that better with its dark fantasy preoccupations.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 ‒ Episodes 6-7
Genau and Stark are under the impression that they are not good people—that they can’t possibly become good people.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ Episode 9
This is the week where Sentenced to be a Hero finally played its hand.
Dead Account ‒ Episode 9
As things become dumber and dumber with each passing episode, I'm left with so many new ways to marvel at Dead Account's ineptitude.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ Episode 9
It’s surely only a downhill journey into darkness and struggle for Vash from now on.
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 21
The Knight King, Arthur Boyle, has one last Dragon to slay, and their battle will surely become the stuff of legends
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ Episode 9
Just because I can understand why he can be scary doesn't mean that I think that Tounome deserved any of this trauma.
Gnosia ‒ Episode 20
With only one episode left to go, I wonder if there are any tricks Gnosia could pull out of its hat that would finally capitalize on all of this unrealized potential.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 3
Yuna's story here does feel like a bit of a retread, but even a slightly weaker episode of Medalist still knows how to hit where it needs to.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 56
While it helps that this episode looks sick as hell, the timely message of good people enduring in bad situations is what ultimately makes this a great episode of anime.
Tamon's B-Side ‒ Episode 10
In some ways, Natsuki feels more like a burnt-out, middle-aged man than he does a young pop idol.
Champignon Witch ‒ Episode 10
Who is brainwashing the populace into believing that practitioners of black magic are bad?
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 9
For as much as Kuusetsu represents Yuki and Co.'s worst nightmare, I don't think I've ever been so excited to see where Chained Soldier goes next.
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ Episode 9
Only a truly deranged world would allow such madness to run rampant and unchecked. Thank goodness such a place could only exist in the far-out realm of science-fiction anime.
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ Episode 9
If there’s a “true” tragedy in this story, it’s that Scarlett died for nothing.
In the Clear Moonlit Dusk ‒ Episode 8
Why is it that being treated like a girl is preferable to simply being treated as Yoi?
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ Episode 8
The suggestion that the cheerful Ai we saw interacting with her own children might not have been the true Ai is irresistible.
Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter ‒ Episode 9
The man in charge of the church resents the palace’s “interference” with his institution in the first place; imagine what he’ll do when he realizes that Seiichirou and Yua also want to deprive him of a system that’s netted him a lot of free labor.
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ Episode 22
It’s the first time in a while I’ve watched someone so explicitly blunder into eternal damnation.
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 9
This is still The Darwin Incident I'm talking about here, so it's going to make its efforts in the bluntest ways possible.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Season 2 ‒ Episode 22
I'm actually starting to get annoyed at where this show's priorities are.
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ Episode 9
It's solid enough as a plot twist, but the way Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers brings itself back into flavor country is how it threads that twist through subsequent subplots.
Journal with Witch ‒ Episode 9
As a viewer and a writer, I can appreciate Makio's phrasing, and “write with the intent to kill” sent a bolt of lightning up my spine.
Hana-Kimi ‒ Episode 10
Hana-Kimi really is at its best as a kind of hangout show, spending time with the characters without worrying too much about any stakes other than the slow burn of the romance.
Wash It All Away ‒ Episode 9
It’s raining, it’s pouring, but no, this episode isn’t boring.
Golden Kamuy Final Season ‒ Episode 58
For every valid criticism I have of this episode, whenever I think of Ogata pouting when he learns that the flailing, naked Sugimoto is not his brother, my fondness for this episode returns and grows.
Medalist Season 2 ‒ Episode 2
For a series that largely centers itself around character drama, this episode feels a lot more like watching a real competition, but considering the exact level of spectacle involved, it's hard to argue with the results.
Hell's Paradise Season 2 ‒ Episode 8
This felt like half an episode's worth of content stretched into 25 minutes.
You and I Are Polar Opposites ‒ Episode 8
Azuma's situation here is pretty rough, which just makes it all the more shocking when the heavens split, as for the briefest of moments, Taira manages to actually talk some sense.
Gnosia ‒ Episode 19
As we all predicted, the previous 'ending' of Gnosia was not the true conclusion of Yuri and Setu's adventures through time and space.
Dead Account ‒ Episode 8
Some boring fights that are coupled with a bunch of flashbacks that add nothing? Yep, this is what we in the field call “a nothingburger."
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife ‒ Episode 8
Yakou sleeping over had some funny jokes that leaned into more adult territory.
Trigun Stargaze ‒ Episode 8
Well played, you magnificent bastards, well played.
Roll Over and Die ‒ Episode 8
As much as I enjoy Roll Over and Die for how it feels like a respite from its genre, the series sadly remains beholden to some of the Narou scene's ickiest impulses.
Fire Force Season 3 ‒ Episode 20
The fact that Fire Force has tried to thematically justify Tamaki's ridiculous fanservice with its cuckoo world-building is legitimately so insane that I can't help but have a little respect for the gumption of it all.
Sentenced to Be a Hero ‒ Episode 8
The trope of “we have to pretend to be married for the mission” is well-beloved for a reason.
Chained Soldier Season 2 ‒ Episode 8
We've got action, some story development, fun new characters, boobs, a couple of good jokes, and even more boobs. What more could you ask for?
Champignon Witch ‒ Episode 9
It’s adorable when Lize pretends not to know what kissing is, but that’s the brief moment of light in the darkness.
Tamon's B-Side ‒ Episode 9
This episode made me realize that Ouri is kind of a tragic character.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 ‒ Episode 55
Put simply, this episode is everything I want from Jujutsu Kaisen and it would be my favorite anime of all time if every episode were this good.
The Holy Grail of Eris ‒ Episode 8
When have men in power ever cared about seventeen-year-old girls' wellbeing?
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table ‒ Episode 8
The tragedy of SHIBOYUGI comes from the girls knowing full well that they are little more than dolls to be played with until they are too worn out and must be tossed aside.
Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin ‒ Episodes 14-15
This two-part special doesn't offer much beyond an extra 40 minutes of the show's usual vibes, but it's nice to see that those vibes are still pretty charming.
Oshi no Ko Season 3 ‒ Episode 7
Hey Sis, would you support me in delivering the secret we’ve guarded for the last 14 years to the scummiest paparazzo I can find?
The Darwin Incident ‒ Episode 8
That's a lot of grousing I can do about these details in this episode, since so much of this week's entry is that sort of setup before the Lucy Kidnapping Arc presumably sees Lucy get kidnapped.
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube ‒ Episode 21
The unknown and mysterious is often far more frightening than any number of daft-looking monsters.
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers ‒ Episode 8
Having this Lucky Charms box of a cast shotgunned at the screen with wildly varying tones and paces across the board causes whiplash
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