Chihayafuru – 08
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「たえてひさしくなりぬれど」 (Taete Hisashi Kunari Nuredo)
“Taete Hisashi Kunari Nuredo”
Romance takes a back seat this week, as it’s all about the club and the sport itself.
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai – 07
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「携帯電話は着信が少ない＿|￣|○」 (Keitai Denwa wa Chakushin Ga Sukunai ＿|￣|○」)
“My Cellphone has Few Calls”
Are you trying to tell me that I can call people other than my family with a cell phone? NO WAY.
Mirai Nikki – 07
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「留守応答」 (Rusu Ōtō)
“Away Message”
It’s another triumph for gritty, hard-headed realism in episode 7 of Mirai Nikki.
Gundam AGE – 07
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「進化するガンダム」 (Shinka Suru Gandamu)
“Evolving Gundam”
For anyone coming off the latest episode of Gundam Unicorn, it’s easy to draw parallels between the lingering hatred between the Earth Federation and Zeon to the hatred between Euba and Zalam, but it’s also easy to see that AGE’s variation lacks the seriousness and severity seen in the Universal Century timeline.
Last Exile -Ginyoku no Fam- – 06
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「Over step」
Psychopathic, eyepatch-wearing commanders aside, I’m still wondering how seriously we should take the threat of an empire that has eight ships stolen by a little girl so easily that the thefts didn’t even make it onto the screen…
Fate/Zero – 08
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「魔術師殺し」 (Majutsushi Goroshi)
“Mage-Killer”
The episode title said it all about how this would Kiritsugu’s time to shine and he does just that with the use of his single-shot Thompson Contender, loaded with an “Origin Bullet” created from his rib bones (and effectively, part of his soul).
WORKING’!! – 08
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「嗚呼、妹よ」 (Aa, Imōto yo!)
“Oh, My Sister!”
This week’s sister theme really allowed for some balance between comedy and character development.
THE IDOLM@STER – 20
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「約束」 (Yakusoku)
“Promise”
With all the build-up toward Chihaya’s episode, this truly had the makings of a series finale and could have easily passed as one. The drama felt very real and the support that Haruka and the rest of 765 Pro showed Chihaya was incredibly moving, so much so that I couldn’t help but shed some tears by the end of the episode. This is easily the biggest tearjerker I’ve watched in the past while, and really showed that IM@S is much more than a slice-of-life series with an idol twist.
Mawaru Penguindrum – 19
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「私の運命の人」 (Watashi no Unmei no Hito)
“My Soulmate”
Well, it’s starting to look like all the stuff about Kanba being the ladies’ man was a bit of a red herring, because it turns out the actual person snagging all the girls is Shouma. Ringo may have been an inadvertent catch, but that doesn’t appear to be the case with Himari.
Persona 4 the ANIMATION – 07
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「Suspicious Tropical Paradise」
Going into this adaptation, there was one social link in particular that I was most concerned about how it would be adapted, and that was Tatsumi Kanji’s.