An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 9

This week on Gene of AI we’re back to vignettes around characters we’ve (mostly) never seen before and will probably (mostly) never see again, wherein Doctor Sudo gets just a couple of lines. This time, we’re dealing with censorship and society.

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Comfort Harem Buffet – Date a Live (Seasons 1-4) Spoiler Review

Oh, Date a Live, how have I gone this far without reviewing you? This is a show with a majestic four seasons, an iconic design in the form of one of its leading ladies (Kurumi Tokisaki) getting mountains of attention and her own spinoff, and a legendarily goofy premise: a seemingly normal high school boy must date apocalypticly powerful supernatural girls, because the only way to seal their powers rather than killing them or letting them wreak further destruction is with a kiss.

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(Holmes + Edge)^SocialCommentary = ? – Moriarty the Patriot Spoiler Review

Moriarty the Patriot is a show that walks a ton of fine lines. Somewhere between adaptation and subversion, tawdry vengeance and cunning capers, message fiction and adventure – at the intersection of those dividing lines, you find this show. That puts it in a promising yet perilous position, since balancing on any one of those lines is also balancing between success and failure.

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Pudding Ghost – Nanana’s Buried Treasure Spoiler Review

A boy moves in to a new apartment, only to discover it’s haunted! The ghost wants to find her (unknown) killer and kill them back, and in the meantime can help the boy find a number of mystical artifacts that are hidden throughout the setting, hidden behind any number of ridiculous puzzles and traps.

It’s nowhere near as exciting as it sounds.

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