An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 12 (End)

I accept this as an ending and yet part of me wants more.

This episode is almost entirely about Sudo and Risa working out their feelings as Sudo prepares to leave for a war-torn hellhole to search for his mother’s copy. Anything about searching for or finding the copy, or the upgrade to Michi that precipitated all this and for which Michi clearly wants Sudo to have this experience for (or die trying) is left out of the content of the show.

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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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