An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

At Least it’s not Collect – Call of the Night Spoiler Review

Well, while we’re in the month of maximum spookiness, what better subject could there be than Vampires? I’ve talked about the notorious nosferatu before, notably in the lamentable A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives and the somewhat less awful Lunar Legend Tsukihime. In fact, I even referenced the vampires here in the opening of the former review. So it only seems fitting that now that we’ve come around to everyone’s favorite season for vampires (your mileage may vary), I ought to take a look at Call of the Night.

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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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