An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Candidate for the Plot – Pilot Candidate Spoiler Review

“Here we go again.” That’s honestly what I thought when loading up the first episode of Pilot Candidate.  Mechas versus space monsters, protecting what’s left of humanity from certain annihilation, some weird imagery and the expectation of, probably, bland characters and a lackluster story.  There are probably a million shows like that, but, I thought, I can only address one coprolite at a time so here we are.  What I found was… well, it was at least a little more interesting than that, so let’s take a look.

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