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Episode 1: Tattoo Taboo Tattoo: A Chance Encounter Leads To Mayhem And Thirsty Ink In Taboo Tattoo’s first episode, titled “Tattoo,” we meet Justice Akatsuka, who receives a strange tattoo as a “thank you” gift from a man he saved from a robber. Not long afterward, Bluesy Fluesy begins stalking him. Akatsuka’s day goes downhill rapidly from there. Read more… […]

Episode 1: Frightened Corpse Kabaneri Of The Iron Fortress Episode 1 Review In this Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Episode 1 Review: What’s worse than zombies you have to kill by stabbing in the head? In Kabaneri’s first episode, Frightened Corpse, we find out: Zombies you have to kill by stabbing in the heart — and that have […]

Episode 13: The Banquet Begins Gate Thus The JSDF Fought There Episode 13 Review Gate Thus the JSDF Fought There Episode 13, “The Banquet Begins“, digs deeper into the empire’s depravity. It also shows that getting to know the down-trodden can be life-saving! Working with Princess Pina Co Lada, Koji Sugawara of the Japanese diplomatic team host a garden party for […]

Episode 1: The Fourteenth D.Gray-Man HALLOW Episode 104 (A.K.A. Episode 1): A Chess Game, A New House, And Blood In D.Gray-man HALLOW episode 104, “The Fourteenth“, the series ended up in 2008. We get to see most of the old gang in action, from the bookmen Lavi and Bookman to the exorcists like Lenalee Lee, Arystar Krory III, Miranda Lotto, and, of course, the […]

Episode 1: The Witch Girl of Tokyo Concrete Revolutio Episode 1: Nope, Not Kansas Anymore! The first episode of Concrete Revolutio, “The Witch Girl of Tokyo,” recently aired — and I think I understood what happened! The show seems to have two distinct timelines distinguished by Jirou Hitoyoshi’s attitude and attire. The opening seems to be in the present, when […]

Season 1 Episode 1: Witch of the Resplendent Flames The Asterisk War Episode 1: And So It Begins! The Fall 2015 season’s underway, and on Crunchyroll, one of the shows I’m watching is The Asterisk War. Episode 1, “Witch of the Resplendent Flames,” starts with a bespectacled beauty fighting a huge masked man in an arena. Maybe an underground fight? […]