I’m not sure if there will be any followup to this, but I figured I’d post the first column I wrote on that topic here. It’s on a contemporary show, “And You Thought There Is Never A Girl Online.” Enjoy!

THE SHOW IN MY HEAD #1: AND YOU THOUGHT THERE IS NEVER A GIRL ONLINE

On the surface, it doesn’t make a lot of sense that to try shows like And You Thought There Is Never A Girl Online? I almost never enjoy them, but on the rare occasions where I do, it’s very rewarding. The World God Only Knows was a show that I had avoided for years because its premise (a guy is so good at video games that he’s recruited to use his skills to catch demons trapped in girls’ hearts) sounded completely hopeless. It’s now one of my all-time favorites, and after that experience I decided to give shows with similarly dumb premises the old college try. The success rate has been less than stellar, but it at least gives me something to complain about with my friends. That slim chance of finding another The World God Only Knows makes it all the more rewarding, and bad anime is fun to talk about.

Speaking of…

I’ll admit that I tried this one versus the other new Spring anime on Funimation because of a misunderstanding about the title. In Funimation’s new “Funimation Now” app, the title of the show was clipped off to “And You Thou…”, which I took to be the entire title. It was such a bizarre title that I just had to see what it was. After clicking in, a closer look at the cover immediately screamed Light Novel adaptation, which is already a red flag, but I was bored and I didn’t feel like finding another show.

(There’s a lot of “eh, I got nothing better to do” in this story, isn’t there? I promise, future review targets will be based on more solid foundations.)

Now, I’ll admit that this one managed to get my hopes up a little bit. Our hero, Nerd Protagonist Serial Number 8391, is offered marriage in the first moments of the show by a girl in a ridiculous JRPG outfit in a generic JRPG looking setting. He says no. “I’ve made up my mind never to fall in love again.” She then seems to understand, and then offers to fix the problem by getting married, which leads to a bit more sorta funny back and forth about how she clearly wasn’t listening.

I was intrigued by two things at this point. He’s clearly a younger guy, so the fact that he’d had his heart broken made me wonder what that was about. Second, I hadn’t looked closely enough at the box art to notice that they were clearly in a real world high school, so I was operating under the misapprehension that it was a real fantasy series. A real fantasy series dealing with love, heartbreak and an insistent fanservice girl trying to get past a hero’s hang-ups is a solid enough foundation for a show.

That is not what “And You Thought” is about.

There’s immediately a fight scene where we’re introduced to two more members of Fanservice Girl (aka Ako) and Nerd Protagonist’s adventuring guild. After a fight against some very generic orcs, we learn for certain that it’s set in a free to play RPG with graphics that I’d probably peg somewhere around Sega Dreamcast levels. We also learn that somewhere between the failed proposal and the first scene, Ako and Nerd Protagonist got married in the game. We then cut to Nerd Protagonist at school, talking about nerd stuff with his not quite so nerdy friends.

Right around where he starts to talk about his online wife, he’s immediately verbally attacked by a girl in his class. This girl is basically straight out of central casting for a tsundere character. Slim body, blonde, two pigtails, short, tall forehead. It’s clear that she completely hates him and his otaku ways. At this point, I said to myself, “Aha! I see where this is going. She’s clearly his online wife. There’s going to be this amusing disconnect between how she looks and acts in the game and how she looks and acts in real life. The show is going to be about them bridging the gap between their online and real life personas, with lots of tsundere behavior from her and lots of annoying nerdery from him.” I’m sure it’s been done before, but it’s a fun enough premise. For a romantic story about boring people who play online games a lot, that sort of conflict would spice things up. It’s might not be something I’d keep watching to the end, but I could respect the direction it was going.

This is where the show in my head starts to form. Tsundere (who is so stock she doesn’t deserve a nickname, I’ll just capitalize the word from here) is a stuck up girl who is so focused on being popular that she completely hides her nerdy interests from her friends. Our Nerd Protagonist is a huge nerdlinger who talks about nothing but games and anime. Tsundere likes him in the game, but hates him in reality. In the game, she takes on the role of an easily flustered, incompetent healer with a completely different body type, whereas Nerd Protagonist is a confident, take charge guy that he clearly isn’t in reality. Are they doing those roles just for the fun of it, or is it who they really want to be? There are some some interesting conflicts and hang-ups to explore there.

For example, how do they find out about each other? Perhaps she finds out that he’s her guild member when she recognizes a story he’s telling his friends about their exploits?! Would she tell him right away? Would she disappear from the game and force him to do some sleuthing to track her down? Perhaps he finds out first and then drops the bomb on her. And once they know each other, there are even more chances for interesting stories! Hiding her association and fake marriage from Nerd Protagonist would result in many, many opportunities for Tsundere to do the flustered, angry things that people who like tsunderes look for in anime. Them getting to really know each other in real life has the potential to be funny and, just maybe, heartwarming. Yup, this show is shaping up nicely!

And then Nerd Protagonist bumps into a quiet, shy girl who looks exactly like Ako in the hallway between classes, as Tsundere glares at him. At this point, I was extremely confused. I spent some time during the following scenes wondering what was going on. Was this girl Ako? Then what was going on with Tsundere? Was the identical girl a red herring of some sort? Had Tsundere based her character on this girl from school she wanted to be like for some reason?

No. Nothing so interesting. The girl in the hallways was Ako, but I gave the show too much credit and assumed they were going with some sort of twist. This was the most engaging part of the show for me: trying to decide if the show was going with the more interesting plot with Ako being Tsundere, or if it was so straightforward that the shy girl was clearly Ako and the show had absolutely nothing surprising left.

Long story short, we cut to our guild members in the game talking about why it took so long for Nerd Protagonist to accept Ako’s marriage proposal. It turns out that he’d proposed marriage to a catgirl in the game, only for her to say that she was an older man. In what might be only clever line in the episode, the catgirl says “I mean, girls in real life don’t say ‘nyan,’” (aka meow for gaijin) as though the stereotypical anime affectation was a dead giveaway. Nerd Protagonist had then spent a while being a solo player before joining up with his current guild (featuring a male sorcerer and warrior who are not terribly interesting). Despite being shell-shocked by the catgirl’s true identity, he’d decided that he didn’t care that Ako was probably a dude, since she was so cute in game.

Just before and while all of this is exposition going on, we see what Ako’s role in the show is: she’s a pair of jingling keys designed to keep us entertained during scenes like this. And by jingling keys, I mean jiggling boobs, with ass shots thrown in for variety. By the end of the scene, we see her from every angle as she pathetically begs Nerd Protagonist not to divorce her after he makes an offhand comment. She is pure waifu-bait. We also learn that she hates normal people and people who can function socially; she gets very threatening when she finds out that one of the other guild members had been asked out on a date. The sad thing is, we didn’t necessarily need those jingling keys. We were learning things about the main character that could, in theory, make him interesting. He’s jaded. He doesn’t mind things being false because it’s all just a game anyway and Ako’s sprite is cute. Much like Keima in The World God Only Knows, he’s retreated into virtual worlds, preferring them to real life; unlike Keima, he’s actually been hurt by those virtual worlds. It would be fun to explore how real emotional damage done by fake worlds is simultaneously real and silly, and see him grow up a little bit and let it go. That certainly sounds like an interesting show!

Meanwhile, in the show I was actually watching… the guild members realize they all live close to each other, so they decide to have a meetup. Nerd Protagonist, while waiting at the bus stop, is approached from behind by a girl who sounds exactly like Ako does in the game and surprise, surprise, surprise. Ako is the shy girl from earlier in the show.

I want to just express how completely disappointed I was by this revelation. There is a reason for Ako to be exactly who she is in the game (it’s a stupid reason that’s gone into in the next episode, but there is a reason), and it does, in theory, make her a good contrast to the catgirl. The catgirl was the opposite of what she seemed to be. If the goal of the show is a romance between Nerd Protagonist and Ako, dealing with someone who’s honest about themselves online could go towards healing his (dumb) heartache. However, it also means that the plotline I had in my head about Tsundere being completely different online than she is in reality is gone.

Yes, it’s gone even when it turns out that Tsundere is one of the male members of the guild. By some cosmic coincidence, everyone in the guild is a student at Nerd Protagonist’s school. The other is the stupid school council president who is a shut-in rich girl who has no friends (and yet was still elected student council president because I DON’T KNOW. I think it’s because her parents own the school). So it turns out that the guild was mostly girls instead of mostly boys, hence the title And You Thought There Is Never A Girl Online? I haven’t been aware in the past decade of anybody seriously thinking there were no girls online (Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook should have killed those notions), so this isn’t a huge twist. See, these other girls don’t really act all that differently than they do in the game, outside some verbal affectations by Tsundere’s character that some poor subtitler at Funimation had no elegant way of expressing. This lack of difference just confused me. The episode ends in mid meeting, and I found myself struggling to think of where the show could possibly be going. They had cut off every interesting angle of attack. The fantasy was fake (fair enough, I could have figured that out if I hadn’t just immediately clicked play), the characters aren’t really different from what they were online and the comedy wasn’t that great. I haven’t seen a lot of shows have so little at stake before, so I decided to try one more episode just to see how they could follow it up.

It turns out, they couldn’t follow it up well. Having tossed out the interesting stuff, the second episode is very quick to sum up. The show lives or dies on whether you find Ako amusing. See, she has two modes: cloyingly cute and crazy. On the cute end, her interactions with Nerd Protagonist are annoying because she’s like a puppy with self esteem issues. As for crazy, she sees absolutely no difference between the game and reality, on top of her rage at “normies.” This explains why she’s the same as her avatar; she didn’t realize that most people don’t use their real name and appearance online. She only refers to Nerd Protagonist by his online handle, and despite Tsundere’s insistence that nobody can know that she likes video games (again, a much better conflict than what we get with Ako), Ako talks openly about the games. They decide that they need to do something to help Ako get a better handle on the whole difference between the real world and games, so they set up a private room at the school to play their online game as part of their new school club (uuuuugh why does every light novel have be about a school club?). Now, this is a dumb way to try and get someone acclimated to real life. If it were me, I’d say that she needs less game time, not more, and certainly doesn’t need game time intruding on her school life, which seems to be the one place she doesn’t play games. (Note to self: never ask that student council president to help me quit drinking. She’d probably lock me in a room with a twenty-four pack of Budweiser until I’d drunk them all.)

So that’s where two episodes of this show gets us. Ako was exactly what she appeared to be, large sections of it (including a big chunk of the second episode I mercifully left out) take place in a glorified iPhone game with no stakes and we have no major conflict. I say no major conflict because there is a bit more hint of the show’s premise in episode 2 than there was in episode 1. Nerd Protagonist is reluctant to have a relationship with Ako because of his past issues and because he wants to keep the real world and the game world separate. He also immediately loses the sympathy of any non-stunted member of his audience, because seriously, any teenage boy who had a girl who looked like Ako fawning all over him and DOESN’T want to reciprocate needs his head examined. Sure, she’s crazy, but teenage boys aren’t exactly renowned for their ability to assess risk.

If I were to be VERY optimistic, there is a tiny, tiny bit of potential here. Ako doesn’t see a difference between the game and reality. Nerd Protagonist puts up such a huge wall between the two that he doesn’t mind being married to a virtual girl who he thinks is probably a guy. They’re presumably going to be a couple (I read a little of the manga out of curiosity and there was talk of him confessing to her in a later chapter), so their extremes would presumably need to be evened out and that COULD be interesting. However, I don’t think that the ride will be worth it. All the bouncing breasts (and this show has a lot of them) and mostly unfunny game humor in the world won’t bring me back to it. The show in my head (focusing on the Nerd Protagonist and Tsundere getting involved in each other’s worlds and sorting through their different relationship dynamics online and at school) isn’t that different in theory, but it’s amazing how much the wrong choices can hamstring a show before it even gets started.

What if dragons were actually pre pubescent anime girls? Answer: it would be painful, mostly. God damn it, anime.

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Buy the series on Amazon: Michiko & Hatchin: Complete Series Part 1 [Blu-ray]

Much delayed, we finally have Episode 60, featuring returning guest star Schroedinger’s Matt! We look at the anime Michiko and Hatchin and give it the ol’ Five Point review.
For more of Matt, go to http://www.inkblackanalysis.blogspot.com.

Basically, things for Burk and I in the “not internet” space have been a mix of busy and ugly. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to go on another indeterminate hiatus, and I can’t say when or if we’ll be back with regular reviews.

However, our most recently recorded episode, featuring Schrodinger’s Matt, will be going up soon, as will two episodes that we had in the backlog that we’d planned to release as part of the now cancelled Dragon Month. That’ll be one today, then a couple of more over the next two weeks, so as not to overwhelm everyone.

Apologies to everyone for the long silence, and hopefully we can start producing content of some sort on a regular basis again.

Good night and good luck.

Go Hawks.

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For more of Lilac, go to http://www.lilacanimereviews.blogspot.com.

This week, we look at the lives of frustrated Tanuki and the old men who grope them. Okay, fine, that’s not all it’s about. It’s also about purple haired women swimming with whales in the nude.

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For more of Rob, go to http://www.planet-rob.com

Remember how for a couple of years, Hollywood tried to remake various anime, and they all bombed horribly?

Yeah, this is one of ’em.

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Recipe for a podcast: take two cohosts, remove one, add one guest star, then add one ridiculously epic anime. Bake for half an hour at 300 degrees, serves eight.

For more of Brainchild, go to http://www.mangatestdrive.blogspot.com and http://www.infiniterainyday.blogspot.com

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Xam’d: if Studio Ghibli had created the Guyver.

… damnit, shouldn’t have summed it up so well! Listen to the review anyway.

First, just to officially lay out our schedule (may not have done that) we post every other Tuesday. Most likely, the episode will be up sometime the preceding weekend, but we aim to have it up Tuesday at the latest.

Also, Bobcat got a job! This means that we’ll be sticking to an every-other week schedule for the foreseeable future.

Finally, I need to announce a schedule change. Burkion’s computer has given up the ghost. As a result, Dragon Month is being punted down to October, and September is going to feature Me (Bobcat) alone with guest stars. Who are they? Well, I’m still working out some stuff, but sufficed to say that one is a WONDERFUL guest who has been on twice and has a PLANET full of talent that he must have ROBBED from somewhere. Also, SUBTLE HINT. The other… well, that I’ll actually keep secret because that’s still being worked out.

Bobcat out.

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Our wonderful guest star, Brainchild, can be found here: http://mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/ and here: http://www.infiniterainyday.blogspot.com/. Check her out. She’s fun and classy.

Oh great, an anime about a popular, attractive girl who wants to have sex with some unworthy schlub with no real personality! This is gonna be terrible! Ugh, Japan, come up with a unique idea!

… wait, the girl is the main character?

You’ve redeemed yourself, Japan!

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Read the following in the voice of William Shatner in The Wrath of Khan.

“KANOKOOOOOOON!”

For more of Wade, check out http://www.wadejobkar.com/category/pcwa/

Five Point Podcast Episode 53: Captain Earth by fivepointpodcast

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Watch it here for free! http://www.crunchyroll.com/captain-earth

Captain Earth, he’s our hero, gonna explain the plot slightly more than zero!
With good and bad points exemplified, he is fighting on the planet’s side!

And no, there isn’t any cheesy 90’s environmentalism. Ah well.

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Buy the show from Amazon! Watamote: Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

Watch it here! http://www.crunchyroll.com/watamote-no-matter-how-i-look-at-it-its-you-guys-fault-im-not-popular

SERIES 2! WOOO!

We’re back! After a year’s hiatus, we tackle Watamote, aka “No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular.” The shorter name makes more sense. How does the show stack up? Well, you’ll just have to watch it to find out!

Are you wondering who we crazy people are? Well, this video should explain… some of it.

Also, new episodes start July 1st.

The Boys are Back In Town. #ThinLizzy #Iamawarethatwordpressdoesn’tdohashtags,thankyouverymuch.

What does this mean? The next post you see (whenever you see it) will be brand new content, the first episode of Series 2. Those of you who follow our Twitter will notice that I may have already spilled the beans on that. If you don’t, well, you’ll just have to be patient.

Originally Posted: 5/5/2013 as the last episode of Series 1!

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The inner life of a recluse has never been quite so depressing and hilarious at the same time.

Buy the show on Amazon (we get a cut!): Welcome to the NHK - The Complete Series

Originally Posted: 4/21/2013

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Schrodinger’s Matt (Formerly know as Madshadow) Website: http://inkblackanalysis.blogspot.com/

Wow, fifty episodes. It seems like just 16 months ago that we were complaining about Baka and Test… here’s to the next 50!

So what are we reviewing on this special occasion? Bartender! An anime so boozed up that it required three reviewers to tackle! Give a nice, warm, Five Point Podcast welcome to Schrodinger’s Matt (known at the time as MadShadow), everyone!

Originally Posted: 4/5/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month (technically)

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Cutie Honey Month is over, which means we finally get to compare the shows to each other! Who wins and who loses, and what direction is the franchise heading? You’ll have to watch to find out

Originally Posted: 3/28/2013

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Cutie Honey Month comes to a close with the most recent Cutie Honey show, Cutie Honey the Live. Want to see how a live action version of a 70s anime works?

… Well, yes, there was the movie, but this worked better. How much better? You’ll just have to watch

Originally Posted: 3/24/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month!

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Buy it on Amazon: Cutie Honey

Cutie Honey Month continues with a special two for one episode! We look at two versions of Cutie Honey that came out at the same time and shared the same series bible. One is awesome, the other is very much NOT awesome. Which is which? Listen to find out!

Originally Posted: 3/17/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month!

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Cutie Honey Month continues! Sailor Moon could be said to have borrowed some elements from Cutie Honey wholesale (specifically how the her disguise pen worked). So what’s Cutie Honey Flash? A version of Cutie Honey that borrows elements from Sailor Moon wholesale! How does it work out? You’ll just have to watch to find out.

Originally Posted: 3/9/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month!

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Buy it on Amazon: Cutey Honey: Collection 1 & 2

Cutie Honey month continues! Twenty years after the original series ended, it was brought to home video in the OVA New Cutie Honey. In the continuation of the original Cutie Honey series, Honey Kisuragi must fight bikers and monsters in a post apocalyptic future. Sounds like every single OVA ever made ever. So this is a step in the wrong direction… right?

Featuring special guest stars Burkion’s cat and Bobcat’s cold.

Originally Posted: 3/2/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month!

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Buy it on Amazon: Cutie Honey: Complete TV Series

To kick off Cutie Honey month, we start with the series that started all (naturally). Is this a forgotten gem, or a horror best left buried? You’ll just have to watch to find out.

To kick off Cutie Honey month, we start with the series that started all (naturally). Is this a forgotten gem, or a horror best left buried? You’ll just have to watch to find out.

Originally Posted: 2/23/2013

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Buy the Show: Dante’s Inferno

Buy the Game: Dante’s Inferno – Xbox 360

Uh oh… a movie based on an ultra-violent action video game based on a classical work of literature that wasn’t ultra-violent? This must be crap.

Right?

Originally Posted: 2/13/2013

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This week, we review Trigun: Badlands Rumble. … Oh lord, another movie review. AND it’s a recent addition to a beloved franchise? Oh, this is going to be dreadful. … or will it? You’ll just have to listen to find out!

Originally Posted: 1/25/2013

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I am at a loss for words. Aside from this shameless plug: go check out our guest star at http://lilacanimereviews.blogspot.com/!
Okay, that’s a lie. I have a word. Bizarre.

Originally Posted: 1/5/2013

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One is a Tiger. The other is a Bunny. Together, they fight crime. One of those three things is true. Listen to find out which one it is!

Originally Posted: December 12, 2012

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Wow, a whole year. I can’t believe that one year ago, we were complaining about harmless anime. And now we’re… complaining about a whole bunch of anime all at once. See our countdown of the best, worst and in between shows we’ve reviewed this year!

Originally Posted: 12/2/2012

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The World God Only Knows: It’s The Last Starfighter, only with more Dating Sims and fewer clones and aliens. It’s also a premise that requires a master touch. Does this show work or fall flat on its NERD face? Guess you’ll just have to watch.

Requested by friend of the show Yerocha. You can see his stuff at http://shadesofgreymanga.wordpress.com/ and http://www.shonenbeam.com.

Originally Posted: 11/18/2012

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This makes me long for the action packed, character based drama of Twilight. At least you could laugh at that…

Request by Paranormal Rob: http://planet-rob.com/. (Rob, we really need to stop this cycle of revenge… we apologize for Hammerman, really!)

Originally Posted: 11/4/2012

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Remember that game that had a definitive and satisfying ending? Well, it got a CGI movie sequel for… reasons.

Originally Posted: 10/22/2012

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Having two jobs sucks… anyway, a week late, here’s Princess Tutu, featuring Paranormal Rob! You should totally check out his website (www.planet-rob.com), watch his vids and buy his swag.

In a world where the barrier between reality and fiction, one girl must save the day with ballet. She fights anteaters, gravity and delusional restaurateurs, while trying to start a relationship with an emotionless boy who already has an abusive boyfriend. Also the girl is a duck.

I am not making this up. To learn more, you’ll just have to watch.

Originally Posted: 9/30/2012

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This week, we look at an anime famous for being an example of a harem anime and existing! Sounds exciting, right? Right?

Originally Posted: 9/16/2012

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Star Driver, a trippy, bizarre magical boy robot anime starring a protagonist in a red t-shirt with a white star. Check out the review at fivepointpodcast.net!

(whisper whisper)

fivepointpodcast.net! It’s dot com!

Also, apologies for the slightly wonky audio on my (Bobcat’s) end. I figured out what I was doing wrong only after the recording was all done.

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012

Note: The contest mentioned in this video is LONG, LONG OVER.

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We finally wrap up this beast.

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012

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Here there be spoilers about Amon! If you get this show spoiled, let it be upon your own head!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012

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The Epic Review of Epicness continues!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012

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Here there be spoilers about Amon! If you get this show spoiled, let it be upon your own head!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012

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Alright folks, this is a long one. More than two hours across Five (count them, 5) parts!

A fun, out of date video where I did the Downfall meme thing about two years late. The video isn’t relevant anymore, but I like it anyway.

A quick explanation: we used to host this series on blip, and we used YouTube to try and drive traffic our way. For about 20 episodes, we made humorous little commercials to try and do just that.

A quick explanation: we used to host this series on blip, and we used YouTube to try and drive traffic our way. For about 20 episodes, we made humorous little commercials to try and do just that.

Originally Posted: 8/25/2012

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Firstly, some apologies for the wonky audio. There were issues with the recording that weren’t noticed until too late.

In a world where anime studios have run out of ideas, one man, Vann the Stampede, comes to show us why everyone shudders at the name Gary Stu.

Originally Posted: 8/17/2012

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Hark, an update! Yes, after many computer problem’s on Bobcat’s end, we finally have an episode up. Not Legend of Korra, sadly (that will have to wait to see if that file can be saved), but it’s Hell Girl, so… yay?

Guest Starring Stephanie from Lilac Anime Reviews. Go visit her. NOW, I SAY.

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A quick explanation: we used to host this series on blip, and we used YouTube to try and drive traffic our way. For about 20 episodes, we made humorous little commercials to try and do just that.

Back in the day, we would make commercials about our episodes for YouTube. We discontinued the practice after about 20 episodes, but I (Bobcat) think that they’re worth a listen just ’cause they were fun to make. We’ll post them gradually over the next week or so; this is Part 1.

Originally Posted: 7/29/2012

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This week, we… mostly talked about Dragon Ball. It’ll make more sense once you watch it. Maybe.