An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Category: Seasonal Episodes

Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 1

I love JRPGs.

I know as someone who is at least a bit of a gamer that I shouldn’t utter that sentence, but I do. I like it when I get a game that has a fantastical world wrapped up in a sweeping story that carries you onward, held together with freaky random encounters, eons of side quests, and probably duct tape in there somewhere. So, this season we’re taking on an anime that is literally a JRPG, Scarlet Nexus.

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Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 11

The final episode of the cour (special pending) and if you told me this was the absolute final episode of the show and anything related to 86, I would believe you. In fact, if I wasn’t damn certain that the story goes on from here, what with a second cour announced and a whole bunch of novels past anything we could have possibly gotten to, I would question the sanity of someone who told me that this wasn’t just the bitter end.

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Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 9

The time for the great battle against Shin’s brother’s Shepherd form has come. The episode “feels” short, consisting essentially of two extremely powerful scenes rather than a lot of little ones, albeit with a little support. Let’s take a look.

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