Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 07
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「メコオヤシ」 (Meko Oyashi)
“Meko Oyashi”
Golden Kamuy has really upped its game this season.
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 06
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「悪兆」 (Aku chou)
“Bad Sign”
In a cast full of badasses, hardasses, psychotics and stone-cold men, Ogata is without a shadow of a doubt one of the scariest.
Yuukoku no Moriarty – 05
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「橋の上の踊り子」 (Hashi no Ue no Odoriko)
“The Dancer on the Bridge”
For me, Holmes and Watson can’t arrive too soon.
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 05
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「国境」 (Kokkyou)
“Border”
Any show that can be this brilliant in successive weeks with such spectacularly different material deserves that little bit of extra recognition.
Yuukoku no Moriarty – 04
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「希少な種」 (Kishoona Tane)
“A Rare Breed”
I certainly won’t dispute that there are and were plenty of evil aristocrats, but revenge killing viscounts and earls isn’t really a political act.
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 04
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「不死身の杉元ハラキリショー」 (Fujimi no Sugimoto harakirishou)
“Immortal Sugimoto Harakiri Show”
Among the many labels I could affix to Noda Satoru and Golden Kamuy, “shameless” would certainly be one.
Yuukoku no Moriarty – 03
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「緋色の瞳 第二幕」 (Hiiro no Hitomi Dainimaku)
“The Scarlet Eyes, Act 2”
There’s a certain irony in the fact that this all starts with an act of noblesse oblige.
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 03
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「いご草」 (Igogusa)
“Igogusa”
One really does get the sense that Noda has a dossier of these richly detailed backstories for everyone in the series, and can dust one off whenever he feels like it.
Yuukoku no Moriarty – 02
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「緋色の瞳 第一幕」 (Scarlet Eyes Part 1)
“Hiiro no hitomi daiichimaku”
As premises go, this is one of the more interesting I’ve seen in anime for a long time.
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 02
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「スチェンカ」 (Stenka)
“Stenka
One thing you discover when writing about Golden Kamuy is that with eps like this one, trying to describe them is an exercise in futility – they just have to be experienced.