Posted inFirst Impressions One Piece
One Piece – 451
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(Okose Saigo no Kiseki - Seigi no Mon o Toppaseyo)"Come, Final Miracle! Break Through the Gate of Justice!"
Bon-chan will go down in bro history.
Posted inFirst Impressions Senkou no Night Raid
Senkou no Night Raid – Special Chapter
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(Yogen)
"Premonition"
So as I mentioned last time, airing on television this week is a recap in lieu of episode seven that will be streamed online. However, that didn't stop them from slipping in some key story at the very end, namely how Japanese militarists bombed their own South Manchuria Railway and blamed it on the Chinese to provide a pretext for war.
Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru – 06
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(Hikari to Zetsubou no Saikaime)
"The Boundary Between Light and Despair"
After the somewhat brief introduction of Hotsuma and Shuusei last time, it was nice to see what the wielders of "God's Voice" and "God's Eyes" are capable of right away.
Arakawa Under the Bridge – 07
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7 BRIDGE
You don't have to be a psychic to figure that educating people living under a bridge with common sense wouldn't go well. Surprisingly though, it wasn't that bad until Stella showed up and demanded 100 trillion yen for running a school on her turf.
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WORKING!! – 07
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(Hisashiburi no Otoo to, Atarashii Baito = Yamada (!?))
"Otoo Again After a While, and the New Part-timer Yamada (!?)"
Just when things were starting to feel too routine at Wagnaria, Otoo brings in Yamada Aoi in the nick of time to spice everything up.
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GIANT KILLING – 07
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#07
It was only a matter of time before ETU started losing some games, but I wasn't expecting them to go on a string of losses.
Posted inFirst Impressions Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – 57
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(Eien no Itoma)
"Eternal Departure"
Wow, what an action-packed episode. While Greed and Fu went toe-to-toe with Wrath to dire results, we also had Ed and the others underground fighting off all the King Bradley rejects before a huge transmutation circle was activated on Central.
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou – 07
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(Densetsu no Yuusha Arawaru!)
"The Legendary Hero Appears!"
While my hunch about Hiroshi proved to be correct, I would have never expected how things unfolded subsequently. In comparison to the more recent episodes that felt somewhat jarring, this one was all over the place both in terms of script and animation style.
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sphere – REALOVE:REALIFE PV (Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou OP)
Covering as many series as I am this season, I'm finding that I barely have time to check out promotional videos on top of that, let alone blog about them. However, there are actually a good handful of them out for various opening/ending themes of anime series this season, so I thought I'd slip in a few here and there over the next week or so. First up is the sphere's opening theme in Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou, "REALOVE:REALIFE", simply because this seiyuu group is composed of four of my favorite female ones -- Tomatsu Haruka (20), Kotobuki Minako (19), Takagaki Ayahi (24), and Toyosaki Aki (23) (left-to-right in the pic above).
... More after the jump.
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Angel Beats! – 07
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Alive
I was hoping to see a follow-up to Naoi's sudden backstory and learn how he eventually died, but it looks like he's already hopped the bandwagon and become one of the many SSS idiots.