| 3:43am | Tears to Tiara #26 — The Once and Future Blech | | | | Good, it’s over. Impressions: I think my favorite part of this episode was how the very first thing that Merkadis did was blow up a mountain, just to show off his power. Then, while everybody sat around waiting for Ogam to explain the deus ex way to beat the damn beasty, it politely sat there... |
| 8:42pm | Incomprehensible Modern Magic #12 — Deus Ex… Screw It | | | | Man, am I glad that this season is all but over. Impressions: I’d compliment the action packed second half, but the copious number of flashbacks and almost three straight minutes of exposition from Kaho made it obvious where the budget came from. We also managed to hit just about every single... |
| 7:09pm | Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei #13 — YMCA | | | | At least it started with a joke. Impressions: Part 1 was pretty lame. They framed mistakes that have become famous by going to a museum displaying them, and then making simple word slips and whatnot, ending with Kafuka’s claim that the mistakes were so big that yada yada. The whole bit felt... |
| 8:23pm | When the Seagulls Cry #13 — Magical Girl Lucifer | | | | Pants really must be getting expensive in Japan. Impressions: Let’s get the bad out of the way first because this was mostly a rather good episode. The narrative was not the best around. We started with Rosa telling the story of Beatrice’s death in the past, and then once that finished,... |
| 7:03pm | 2009 Autumn Preview, Chili Cookoff, and Key Party | | | | If it’s autumn, then why is it still 80 degrees here? I always feel the need to remind people that none of us doing these things really has anything but at best a random guess at how shows are going to turn out, and at worst are insane. Thankfully, the proliferation of information in recent years... |
| 8:15pm | GA Art Design Class #12 — Bad Medicine | | | | Truly mysterious nabe. Impressions: An episode of nothing special, letting this series end just how it began, and that’s perfectly fine. Better than fine really, since the status quo is generally to fabricate some drama in the last 20 minutes. Granted, Namiko was sick for the first 5 minutes... |
| 2:57am | Tears to Tiara #25 — Dr. Strangelove | | | | Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb. Impressions: Well, on the upside, I’ve given up on this show, so I’m not bothered them fighting the same skeletons that they were fighting in episode 2, by Taliesin’s return from under an avalanche with an army of dragons,... |
| 2:57am | Tears to Tiara #25 — Dr. Strangelove | | | | Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb. Impressions: Well, on the upside, I’ve given up on this show, so I’m not bothered them fighting the same skeletons that they were fighting in episode 2, by Taliesin’s return from under an avalanche with an army of dragons,... |
| 6:46pm | Princess Lover! #12 — Trainwreck | | | | Literally. Impressions: Really? Not only is the assistant not dead, but the idiot terrorists have a change of heart and decide to help Charlotte and they just happened to be trained medical professionals with a stocked medical bay on the train, while Teppei and Seb call off the pursuit to play Rock,... | | |
| 7:08pm | Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei #12 — German 101 | | | | The frequent Engrish is bad enough without throwing German in there too. Impressions: Wow. I’m not sure that they could have pronounced Schrodinger any worse. Shu-rei-do-ing. Aaaaaaanyway, the first segment was on Schrodinger’s cats sorta. They did kind of corrupt it a bit to mostly only... | | |
| 6:29pm | Incomprehensible Modern Magic #11 — Deus Ex Magica | | | | No! Bad writers! Stop that! Impressions: Ugh. I have a hard time taking the REVIVAL OF THE ANCIENT EVIL MAGE particularly seriously when there’s not one, but two mage killers standing about 15 feet away. Aside from Koyomi’s ability to nullify any spell, we also now have Soushirou, who... |
| 8:21pm | When the Seagulls Cry #12 — Talking to Yourself | | | | New arc, new crazies. Impressions: Well, for the first episode of a new er episode, this wasn’t too bad, but it dragged like hell in the second half. Like the early episodes in the other two arcs, this one didn’t really do much except reintroduce the characters and give us slightly more... |
| 8:55pm | GA Art Design Class #11 — Crozy Crepes | | | | NICE TRAP. Impressions: A decent episode, I suppose, but I still don’t find the others in the club all that amusing. At least they were doing something that could have maybe been mistaken for art this week, although they’re all kind of terrible at it. Awararara got it into her head to... |
| 4:27am | Tears to Tiara #24 — The Immutable Law of TtT | | | | Budget spent is inversely related to importance of scene. Impressions: Like always, the more irrevelant the fight, the better a job that White Fox does animating it. Since this episode featured a pair of elves against golems, a pair of humans against more golems, a couple more humans against a fat... |
| 8:07pm | Princess Lover! #11 — Hug, Kiss, Kill | | | | Ugh. UGH. Impressions: Let me get this straight. The princess of a foreign country is kidnapped by terrorists, and one of the richest men in the world sends his grandson, a butler, an heiress, and her crazily dressed guards to rescue her with nothing but his grandson’s motorcycle and a couple... | | |
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