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Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 13
The primary feature of this week's episode is demonstrating the increasing closeness of the combat-worthy members of the Sword Rose.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ SEASON FINALE
Mamoru Hatakeyama remains one of my favorite storyboarders and series directors in the industry. His unique approach injected an air of artfulness that played wonderfully into the macabre camp of this penny-dreadful detective romp.
Helck ‒ Episode 12
Wow, did we get an episode that was like 80% plot? That's insane!
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ SEASON FINALE
It may sound a little corny, but in the end, it all comes down to love in this show.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 9
There are still three whole episodes left in the season's run, of course, but lord knows when we'll get to see them.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Season Finale
The happy couple... though we'll just have to see how healthy of a couple they turn out to be.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 12
Val licked Pride's foot.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ SEASON FINALE
The episode dragged its feet by spending time focused on hairstyles, but it connects in the end with Kyouko and Izumi cutting their hair short, reinforcing that everyone is constantly changing.
One Piece ‒ Episode 1077
Such is the scale of Wano and its combatants; even falling down takes a whole episode!
The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 11
While The Gene of AI's vignettes have highlighted all kinds of injustices, Tu Fui goes through some of the worst.
Dark Gathering ‒ SEASON FINALE
Even as I thought it made the eventfulness of this episode feel overloaded, I ultimately came out liking that explanation for how it speaks to Dark Gathering's thematic elements I've enjoyed so much.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ SEASON FINALE
This episode is a perfect microcosm of the season—i.e., equal parts Anos being cool and way too much information jammed into far too little time.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ SEASON FINALE
While it may seem absurd, Boxxo has created a new life for himself in this fantasy world as a heavy metal box.
The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 23
Let's hope it doesn't kick the football so far that we don't even get to that point by the time this season is over.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 24
Altogether it's a great rebound after weeks of wheel-spinning.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 12
That's also the most eventful this one gets since the rest of this episode is Spellblades, with seemingly just a couple of episodes in its season to go, spending its time on setup and prep work for this whole new arc.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 33
All evaluate Gojo as generally being two things: Very dumb, and obscenely strong.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 12
Shizuku anchors the other members of the Cage User trio to a baseline of humanity. Aya might not think twice about either set of villagers, but she does care enough about Shizuku to let her do as her conscience dictates.
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ SEASON FINALE
This is a satisfying ending and certainly worlds better than the first cour's finale.
Helck ‒ Episode 11
I feel like if this reveal came out in episode two then Vermilio would immediately be trying to kill Helck.
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 23
Sariphi has been instrumental in showing that her being a human doesn't make her any less of a person than the beasts and carefully changing the hearts and preconceptions of everyone she has encountered throughout the series.
My Happy Marriage ‒ SEASON FINALE
The clock may strike midnight, as it does, but now we can believe that even when the carriage becomes a pumpkin, Miyo will be all right.
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ SEASON FINALE
Was there really no other way? With the choices made, it falls to hindsight to answer, and we all know how well that tends to work out.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 8
With the arrival of Beatrix Amerhauser, the circle is now complete. The Fellowship has been formed.
One Piece ‒ Episode 1076
Thus ends an eye-watering long arc of anime and a new era dawns for the series.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 12
Just when I was starting to come around and appreciate Kyouko and Izumi as a couple, this episode needed to ruin it by reminding me why you should think otherwise.
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ SEASON FINALE
When we get a show like Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout that uses its final episode as an epilogue—well, I'm already enjoying it on principle alone.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 11
Throughout this season, one question has been looming over the story: Why won't Sylphy just come out and tell Rudeus who she is?
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 11
While last week was more than a bit of a mess, this episode is the exact opposite.
Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 11
One thing I haven't mentioned about Dark Gathering is how its shonen-magazine origins and comparatively longer run as an anime adaptation have become apparent in its episode structures as of late.
Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ SEASON FINALE
This is a Love Live! show and even with added magic and flying motorcycles, it was always going to end with a triumphant musical number, and that's what we get here.
The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 22
Everything that is being talked about is done off-screen so I don't get to witness or feel the weight of what Emi is dealing.
The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 10
If anything, the internet, arguably the most significant of these developments, seems to have fostered more regression than progression.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 23
I am more than happy to put these zombies back in the grave and never speak of them again.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 11
The cave scene in episode 11 legit looked like it was from Johnny Quest.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 11
They had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 11
Shizuku waking up nude, sandwiched between a pair of werewolf girls, also marks the second arc in a row where she's stumbled into a sapphic situation.
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 23
Lafalle is perhaps better compared to a cult leader because he's convinced the other fairies that he's their savior and that they will be redeemed by doing what he decrees.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 32
Ko-guy the Locust Guy is a fun enough enemy for a Monster-of-the-Week type, I suppose, but his throwdown with Yuji eventually devolves into little more than an incoherent montage of smeary punches and blurry dodges.
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 22
Because everything is so fraught and emotions are so high, Sariphi's good deed of stepping in and putting a stop to that little horror show is all but ignored.
Helck ‒ Episode 10
Helck wants to take another week off from telling us what's going on back home.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ Episode 11
In the middle of his existential quandary, we get the story of a zombie child who visits Boxxo each night.
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ Episode 60
Does it get much worse than this?
My Happy Marriage ‒ Episode 11
It's not healthy to pin all of your hopes on one person, and in Arata's case, he was doing so with someone who didn't even know he existed.
One Piece ‒ Episode 1075
It seems as though the Wano arc delivers nothing but knock-down, drag-out fights, week after week. But episode 1075 shows us that there can be just as much action and drama in the space of a single punch.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 10
When it comes down to it, this episode is about one thing alone: Rudeus discovering that he has feelings for Fitz.
The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 9
I suppose even this series has its limits, however, as the two topics covered in “A Proper Society” show us Gene at its most openly didactic and acerbic.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 11
It's the classic Valentine's Day episode, and with the promise of chocolate comes rising expectations and crippling anxiety.
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ Episode 11
With Empel and Lila temporarily out of the picture, it's up to Ryza and friends to take down the dragon before the horrendously under-equipped party led by Boz gets themselves killed.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 10
Once again, we get one of these episodes of The Misfit of Demon King Academy where an insane amount is thrown at the viewer—and is made all the more complicated by a stream of proper nouns (some of which we've never heard before).
Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ Episode 12
The fact that I felt inspired to quote an unrelated song for this review should tell you how hard this episode hit me.
Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 10
If you hadn't already clocked that this storyline kicked off by Ai was going to be a longer one, then this week's episode of Dark Gathering should make that fully apparent.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 22
Much like the memetic version of Batman, he's always super-humanly prepared for any and every eventuality, no matter how much it strains narrative credulity.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 10
1 minute 36 seconds in, my heart skipped a beat, because Stale, Pride, Arthur, and Gilbert are incognito on the human trafficker's cart!
The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 21
We're finally starting to see the build-up and fall-out to all of the conspiring that has been going on.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 10
Who amongst us is immune to hot buff wolf-boys?
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 31
JUJUTSU EVANGELION !!
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 22
It is one of the world's incontrovertible truths that the people most likely to want power are those least suited to having it. Case in point: Lafalle Fenn Lafalle.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 10
This tribalism—the obsession with the in-group versus the out-group—is the thematic core of this arc, and it especially comes through via the elder's words.
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ Episode 10
“Hey, remember these characters? They're still around!”
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 21
Remember when Anubis was the worst, most hateable character in this show? Ah, those were the days.
My Happy Marriage ‒ Episode 10
Viewer-rage aside, this is a very good episode for Kiyoka's emotional trajectory. We see him go through a variety of emotions that he hasn't been able to fully express before.
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ Episode 59
But really, the biggest question is – can anyone really make it out of this undecayed?
Helck ‒ Episode 9
This episode felt like filler in every sense of the word.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 7
“Truck Stop of the Dead” is one of those episodes that sounds like it has all the right ingredients on paper. Yet, it feels ever so slightly like less than the sum of its parts when everything is said and done.
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ Episode 10
So she and her friends head out: not for selfish, foolhardy adventure, but to save those who will otherwise die.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 9
At this point, I'd be surprised if this week's events weren't what gives her the push to divulge her real identity to him shortly.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 9
This week's Misfit of Demon King Academy is a rather straightforward one—putting on screen all the things that have been hinted at over the series so far.
The Gene of AI ‒ Episode 8
Love is in the air for this week's Gene of AI. Love…and lobotomies.
One Piece ‒ Episode 1074
The battle of the serious and the silly continues with One Piece 1074, with the same high-quality results that Toei has been turning in, week after week.
Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ Episode 11
It's important to remind myself that everything happening here makes sense for our characters, and within the frame of this franchise, that's always going to be more important.
Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 9
Dark Gathering still has plenty of terrifying tricks up its sleeve.
The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 20
There aren't many episodes left, but it would be nice to read some definitive closure about all these moving pieces, but only time will tell.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 10
This season has, for the most part, been inoffensive, but this episode has genuinely highlighted some major problems that the original series had.
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior ‒ Episode 9
We got another emotional one, people! Val, the criminal, is back!
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 30
JJK makes the wise decision to ease us back into things with a heaping helping of narrative and emotional exposition.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 9
The focus here is very much on the main group of friend characters as a group, with only a little bit of Oliver co-opting the spotlight.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 9
Per usual, this new arc of Undead Murder Farce kicks off strongly with an episode that wastes little time familiarizing us with the rustic German setting of our headless heroine's latest mystery to solve.
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 21
Anne is well-placed to help bring Jonas back into the light. Does he deserve it?
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon ‒ Episode 9
With this week's episode, Reborn as a Vending Machine joins the elite and exclusive group of anime that remember that women do have periods.
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts ‒ Episode 20
Hold on to your hats, everyone – Sariphi finally has some shoes.
Helck ‒ Episode 8
Vermilio has more or less given up on thinking that Helck is a bad person.
My Happy Marriage ‒ Episode 9
This is the episode of men grabbing Miyo forcefully.
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 ‒ Episode 58
It's always the cheery ones, isn't it? Kenji Miyazawa the author wrote some very bittersweet stories, so it makes sense that Kenji the detective would be hiding a tragic past beneath his happy-go-lucky façade.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead ‒ Episode 6
If anything, I need to see Kosugi bite the big one just so we don't have to watch Akira suffer from his crippling PTSD anymore.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces ‒ Episode 9
The one saving grace of this episode was towards the middle where we got a little glimpse into the relationship between Tooru and Yuki.
The Misfit of Demon King Academy II ‒ Episode 8
We know Anos as unbeatably strong and completely unflappable. However, that doesn't mean he hasn't suffered loss and pain.
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ‒ Episode 9
This is a solid character-building episode. Our heroes are both triumphant and humbled.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II ‒ Episode 8
This episode of Mushoku Tensei is a bit of a palate cleanser after our last two episodes.
Yohane the Parhelion -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR ‒ Episode 10
It's a fine viewing experience, with some very nice moments and an uncharacteristically somber atmosphere, but it's necessarily reiterating stuff we've already covered.
Dark Gathering ‒ Episode 8
Unfortunately, everything about actually telling that story is quite haphazard and messy, even by Dark Gathering's often enjoyably lax standards.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Season 2 ‒ Episode 21
Was it cheesy to see the entire cast look to the sky while the savior literally descended from on-high, complete with his goofy-ass theme song blasting?
The Devil is a Part-Timer Season 3 ‒ Episode 19
We get our first glimpse of what Emi has been doing these past few episodes at the very end.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades ‒ Episode 8
The other irony in the ideas articulated by this episode is the point it makes about Oliver's baked-in spotlight-stealing nature.
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2 ‒ Episode 20
The level of ruthlessness Lafalle displays did take me aback.
Undead Murder Farce ‒ Episode 8
The episode wraps up this arc with a bloody bang and sets the stage for the next leg of Aya's journey to find her legs (and other limbs).
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