Chatty AF 106: Fall 2019 Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Dee, Vrai, and Peter look back on the Fall 2019 season!
Fall 2019 Tag
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Fall 2019
The recs lists just keep on comin’! Last week, we celebrated the end of the decade. This week, we’re zeroing in on the season and year that was, starting with our Fall 2019 picks.
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Chatty AF 103: Fall 2019 Mid-Season Check-in (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Dee, Vrai, and Peter check-in on the Fall 2019 season!
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2019 Fall Three-Episode Check-In
2019 has been a high-on-quality, low-on-quantity sort of year thus far, but don’t worry: Fall’s extensive array of shows is well on its way to making up for lost time.
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2019 Fall Premiere Digest
Fall rolled out a buffet table full of new shows, some that wowed us and some, uh… not so much. Now that we’ve finished our premiere reviews, let’s take a look at the season’s full menu.
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Chidori RSC – Episode 1
Chidori RSC is an extremely low-tension series, even for the “cute girls doing cute things” genre.
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Case File nº221: Kabukicho – Episode 1
Bizarre and wild and unpredictable, with glossy animation and style to spare… all steeped, unfortunately, in absolutely hideous levels of queerphobia.
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Stars Align – Episode 1
Stars Align already looks to be the best series of the season. Just… try to have something bright and happy ready to go after you finish, okay?
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Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth – Episode 1
In the ‘70s and ‘80s in the US, there were laws against a TV show being a glorified toy commercial. Maybe it’s time to bring that rule to anime, because I’m tired of spending my time being sold a product I don’t want.
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Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle – Episode 1
The PSO2 game has a decent amount of acclaim, but this episode came across as so much fantasy/sci-fi mush, full of concepts that have been done before and more distinctively, blended together until all of the flavors merge into one big nothing.
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Blade of the Immortal – Episode 1
Even with the glossy new coat of paint, this is still unmistakably a gritty ’90s story.
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Assassins Pride – Episode 1
Whereas it could have gone for a more contrived story of a princess waiting to awaken the secret powers within her, Assassins Pride hints this will be more a political cloak-and-dagger tale with elements of combat and fantasy.
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Africa Salaryman – Episode 1
The rule of thumb in comedy is to never punch down. Unfortunately, Africa Salaryman tries to punch sideways but often ends up misfiring and punching down instead.
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NO GUNS LIFE – Episode 1
While the writing could stand to take itself a little less seriously, this is a surprisingly good throwback to 2000s-era mashups of noir and cyberpunk.
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Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia – Episode 1
If I were coming into Babylonia completely fresh, I don’t know if I’d want to continue after this. But I do, because I want to see a different side to Gilgamesh.
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Z/X Code reunion – Episode 1
You ever watch something and then thirty minutes later realize you’ve forgotten almost everything about it? That’s where I am with Z/X Code reunion right now.
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Kandagawa Jet Girls – Episode 1
Pack it in, folks. Nothing this season is gonna be hornier than this one.
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Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life? – Episode 1
Don’t worry, Mile. Your series achieved what you could not: it averages out its charming elements with some of anime’s laziest fallback jokes to reach a grand total of “basically okay.”
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Babylon – Episode 1
This might be the best premiere of the season: a tense, slow-burn legal drama that viciously punctuates its own simmering tension in the final moments.
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Outburst Dreamer Boys – Episode 1
You know when you spend an entire first episode smiling and laughing out loud, you have a winner.
