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Chatty AF 138: Angelic Layer Watchalong – Episodes 8-13 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Caitlin, Dee, and Mercedez continue their exploration of CLAMP’s foray into battle shounen with the fighting robot series Angelic Layer!
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2021 Spring Premiere Digest
The latest shower of premieres brought us a huge bouquet of new shows to watch!
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CESTVS -The Roman Fighter- – Episode 1
On paper, this premiere is heavy stuff. Fortunately, it’s all portrayed with such staggering incompetence that the brutality lands with the impact of a discarded tissue.
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Osamake: Romcom Where the Childhood Friend Won’t Lose
If you’re desperately craving a brand-new romance series, then this one will probably tide you over. If, however, you’re willing to expand your parameters to “a romance released any other time than this very season, currently,” then I can’t muster up a very enthusiastic recommendation for Osamake.
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To Your Eternity – Episode 1
To Your Eternity manages to capture that slow, sad and gentle storytelling that I’m used to seeing in shows like Natsume’s Book of Friends and Mushishi
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Pretty Boy Detective Club – Episode 1
I might not be a boy and I might not be a detective, but I’m pretty and I’m on the case, and I’m here to say that Pretty Boy Detective Club is a stunning show, if this kind of Nishioishin story is your thing.
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BACKFLIP!! – Episode 1
Like a siren song, BACKFLIP!! called out to me from the veritable ocean of anime, begging me to watch what might be my favorite new sports anime for 2021.
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Blue Reflection Ray – Episode 1
Blue Reflection Ray is a middle of the road magical girl show that’s boring… until it isn’t. Yet I’m not sure that’s enough to make it worth watching week to week, especially not this season.
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Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro! – Episode 1
Do I like Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro? No. Do I hate Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro? No.
Do I secretly probably like Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro? Well… I don’t like to be called out like this.
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Chatty AF 137: 2021 Winter Wrap-up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Peter, and Caitlin look back at the 2021 Winter season, from egg time to horse girls!
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Super Cub – Episode 1
Super Cub captures all the feelings of loneliness and yearning in a beautiful executed premier about a girl and her brand new motorbike.
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Tokyo Revengers – Episode 1
This premiere had a rough start for me. While I understand the point is to show that Takemichi is going through rough times during his adulthood, it’s difficult to get invested in him because beyond that he isn’t that interesting.
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SHADOWS HOUSE – Episode 1
Here we have a series that hits pretty much every one of my buttons: an anime steeped in gothic aesthetics, themes about identity and perception, visual design that makes heavy use of dark silhouettes against vivid colors, and homoerotic mirror imagery.
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I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level – Episode 1
After literally working herself to death in an office, Azusa takes her new slow existence in stride, and is understandably distraught when challengers start appearing at her door threatening to turn her life into an action-adventure game when she’s content playing a farming simulator.
