The Greatest Anime Ever Made Season 2 Episode 1

Still cool three years later.

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Zessica

After watching episode 17 of Aquarion Evol, I posted this picture on twitter with a comment “really”.

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Sword Art Online Episode 8

“This plate armor… it’s so soft…”

There comes a time in every blogger’s life when he/she comes across an episode beyond redemption.  I have been able to sit through seven episodes of this kind without rageblogging, but now that episode 8 of SAO proved to fail miserably in every single frame, I have no choice but to kick and scream and break shit until episode 9 breaks my expectations of how low an anime can get.

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How to Time Travel

Banana.

The latest episode (7) of Jinrui featured fairy banana-induced time travel with the goal of making cakes.  This is certainly Jinrui-esque: a very complicated procedure to achieve an ironically trivial result, making it funny.  But what I want to focus on is not why Jinrui is the best anime of 2012 (which it is), but why its take on time travel is IMPECCABLE!

Or close enough.

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Nichijou Episode 0 (OVA)

The Nichijou OVA aired way back in early 2011, a full three weeks before the greatest anime of all time graced television screens everywhere in Japan.  But back in those dark times, the foolish creatures of the Earth hadn’t yet felt the embracing warmth of the great Nichijou.  And thus, this OVA was panned by everyone.  Panned like the rivers of California back in the 1800s.  I went panning, too, and I ended up with no gold at the end of a long, harsh 20 minutes.

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