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Redo of Healer 2

Thought I should get this out of the way while there's still time... The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited #8: Money burns a hole in the pocket Redo of Healer #1: The Healer Starts Over! Kanon 2006 #1: Silver Overture Kanon 2006 #2: Introit in the Snow Kanon 2006 #3: A Forgotten Partita Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 #11: EDGELORD Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 #12: NOSTALGIA Mayo Chiki! #9: I Will Go Out on a Journey for a While Corpse Princess: Aka #12: Dawn Corpse Princess: Aka #13: Funeral Program for a Contracted Monk Wild 7 Another #5: Elcatraz (Hell's Island) This is going to be a very interesting season indeed, and that's without even getting to the second J-drama I have planned to cover. 😈

More Yakuza 0 updates. Lost my money to my first real Mr. Shakedown, built it back up by fighting randos, and came across more sidequests. Completed one of them, the Yokomichi Silvers one, earlier today. I'm glad my visual novel-style decisions worked out, even if it faltered near the middle with Sleazy Tarashi's answer for what he did with his mates. I like to believe the delinquent crowd Kiryu helped them satisfy concluded the pancakes he made were super-badass (like, hot sauce for syrup) and their lunches at fancy cafes were akin to customer takeovers.

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As to be expected of the progenitor of isekai LNs in their current form as we know them.

Does Captain Phillips count as a pirate movie, or is it too true to life to properly count?

ATTACK ON TITAN - I can't believe it took me this long to realize Gabi and Reiner were related. I mean, they have the same last name, I should've seen this coming before now! Still, this show makes a convincing argument both for and against the "good" Eldians, at the same time impressively enough. There's just something darkly humorous about Reiner telling the potato story in a way that paints Sasha as anything but the well-meaning dumbass she is. SAO ALICIZATION - Kirito's last-second power-up was so hokey and ridiculous, but after the movie OC cameos, I'm willing to take whatever SAO throws at me now. Still, glad Gabriel got beaten with only three episodes to spare, and here's to hoping Kirito and Asuna's couple of centuries stuck in Underworld don't go to any ridiculous amounts of waste. (If 200 years' worth of semen don't make a glopping noise at the end of this, I'm going to be massively disappointed.) FIRE FORCE - When I saw all those numbers and Science Dandy mentioned "random sequences", I considered it being the digits of pi, but wrote it off as too generic. Yet here goes Fire Force, being as predictable as I thought it'd be, and I love this show for it. Also, random thought: Tamaki hasn't fallen victim to the Lucky Lecher Lure once since the China arc started, does this mean it only takes effect whenever she's on Japanese soil? ASS CLASS - The best parts about this episode were, in order: the lack of any main campus dorks, Kunudon dropping an F-bomb over E Class going to Okinawa, Hellabitch's outfits, Koro-sensei looking like the whitest man in Argentina after spending all day in the sun, and his distaste for S&M mags (shit taste, my friendo). Lovro's return is also welcome, as are the hints towards a potential future appearance by "the Reaper". GRIDMAN - I've been oddly averse to watching Trigger stuff after I put NIBAI MUGENDAI (hypothetically produced by the studio) on indefinite hold in favor of Kinky Kunoichi (hypothetically produced by the Naruto/Bleach/Black Clover guys), so this is my first time actually watching something from the studio post-Toonami's KLK run. And I gotta say, I dig this. The fact that I saw the first season of the original Ultraman and the Netflix CG adaptation also helps. I plan on rewatching the first episode later this week, and eagerly await to see all the random spoilers I came across (at least, those that I remember) finally put into context. SHIPPUDEN - "Hey, remember the last filler arc this series had before Pierrot had the bright idea to pad out time in-between the canon with flashback episodes? Well, sorry for reminding you of it again, but it was necessary."

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The evil Kilokhan lives inside computer circuits! With the help of Malcolm Frink, he creates Megavirus Monsters to attack electronic systems! Meanwhile, a freak accident turns Sam Collins into Servo! His friends join forces in their samuraized attack vehicles! Together, they transform into... the SUPERHUMAN SAMURAI SYBER-SQUAD! In America, that is. In Japan, they do things a little different. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #98 - Ah, the Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs!! - TV-14LV 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #2 - Midnight Train - TV-14L 1:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #20 - The Night-Sky Blade - TV-14LV 1:30 - Fire Force #32 - Smoldering Malevolence - TV-MA 2:00 - Assassination Classroom #17 - Island Time - TV-14DLS 😘 2:30 - SSSS.GRIDMAN #1 - Awakening - TV-PGV 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #324 - The Unbreakable Mask and the Shattered Bubble - TV-PGV 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #11 - Tsuzumi Mansion - TV-14V

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This ain't your average Mike Tyson Mystery anymore...

Corpse Princess: Aka 13 (sub) The Qwaser of Stigmata Picture Drama 5: Super Datamoshing Edition

I love that the Broke the Rating Scale scores are back; a very appropriate memoriam to Zac, if I say so. As for Redo of Healer, I expect them to keep scores regular, but I won't be surprised if they pull an EX-ARM with it too. I'll laugh if Lynzee makes this her only preview write-up just to shame everyone out of watching it (and fail).

Mayo Chiki! 9 Garterbelts truly are a powerful thing.

The one good thing is, there's nowhere to go but up for Titan now, like Food Wars before it.

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Nick's "10 out of 5" review was gold, and further proof that he's one of my favorite reviewers on the site whose name isn't Theron Martin.

Try actually reading it this time.

Well lookit that, it was fake this whole time. Guess you must feel real silly now, huh, Elfie?

ATTACK ON TITAN - It's certainly jarring, going from Paradis by WIT to the mainland by MAPPA, but this four-years past introduction to the enemy side, complete with Titan use in warfare scenarios, certainly grabs the eye and set a pretty damn good precedent for the rest of the season to follow (I hope). Just wish the show wasn't so brazenly racist towards the Eldians, but I guess that's what needs to be done, to paint Marley as someone you wanna root against (selectively). SAO ALICIZATION - I'd piss a lot of people off by saying that now that Kirito's back, this show's gotten comparatively good again, so I won't. Instead, I'll say it's gotten comparatively decent again. Lotta ridiculous stuff still, but nothing too "ow the edge" for me. Kirito pulling a Josuke and turning Vassago into a tree was hardcore, and something I feel the bastard deserves. I'm gonna miss his jazzy theme music, though, and the final showdown with Gabriel's just gonna be lame by comparison anyways. His deal was way more worth caring about when he was Vecta than as Subtilizer. And that's just one more reason why he sucks. FIRE FORCE - I'll be honest with you, this is easily the most consistently enjoyable Fire Force has ever been. New locale, unique setpieces, characters acting stoned out of their minds, talking animals that aren't as freakishly out of place as they should, no annoying character quirks (I've fully come around to Arthur's knight king shtick), and so much more I can't describe right now because I'd be going on a tangent and I'm trying to do that less. The unfortunate thing is, once we get back to Tokyo, it can only go downhill from here. Unless Minamikawa (the new director) learned from Yase's (the old director) past mistakes, otherwise I'm just gonna keep my hopes reserved until then. ASS CLASS - I was fearing E Class was gonna lose again, but I'm glad they managed to pull out an overall victory this time. I don't know what I like more: the class delinquents studying the shit out of the home ec curriculum just to satisfy a loophole Koro-sensei was hoping no one would notice, or Karma finally experiencing the pain of humility by getting a B on the math portion. I really enjoy this show more than Main Campus's infinite unlikability suggests I should, and I look forward to seeing where the rest of this season, and the whole of the second, go from here. GEMUSETTO - All in all, it wasn't great. Sure, my shotgunning the first season twice - once when it premiered, again before season 2 - allowed me to appreciate it better than the cynical shitbags on /co/ and in this forum, it worked as a decent redemption story for Makasu, there were little things I liked all throughout, and though the ending was predictable by my own fault (thanks, fireworks safety video on Twitter) it was still appropriate and left the door open for a potential threequel (where Makasu is his childhood friend's 12-years-in-the-womb baby, I guess?). Plus Makasu's posse surviving to the end (minus Bendy Rivers; poor Bendy Rivers) was a nice surprise! But even then, I totally understand how it can be seen as awkward and unfunny (subjectively speaking) by others, to the point where I even felt that way myself (now you know why I dislike reading negative reviews of things), and it could've used a little breathing room like its predecessor. I'd watch it again, but not anytime soon. 7.5/10. It doesn't look that damning on the surface, but if you know my grade school grading standards, then you too would understand. SHIPPUDEN - Eh, not much to say this week. I legit don't remember Tsunade's forehead marking ever giving her the ability to self-heal, or at least that ability seeing use in earlier moments, but that would explain why she only went into a coma after Pain's attack instead of straight-up dying like so many others. It also might explain (albeit less so) why Sakura has one of her own in Boruto. I'm guessing she gets one at some point later on. [hats]

Could be that they aired it from the start instead of from #207 where you needed a PowerPoint presentation to make sense of the story so far if you were a newbie.

You really need to learn how to condense your topic titles into something less intimidating, Elfie. That said, my JoJo and Kuroko rating screencap folders are safe (despite both anime being Shonen Jump adaptations), so clearly Shueisha's being picky and choosy with what they DMCA people over. As long as I avoid indiscriminately posting stuff from their properties, I'm good.

Different studio. Different setting. Different plot motivation. Same ol' Titan. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #97 - Survive! The "Tournament of Power" Begins at Last!! - TV-PGLV 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #1 - The Other Side of the Sea - TV-MA 1:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #19 - Awakening - TV-14DLV 1:30 - Fire Force #31 - Road to the Oasis - TV-MA 2:00 - Assassination Classroom #16 - School's Out/1st Term - TV-14L 2:30 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #13 - play to D.C. al Coda - TV-MAL 2:45 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #14 - al Fine - TV-MAL - END 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #323 - The Five Kage Assemble - TV-PG 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #10 - Together Forever - TV-MAV Also different designation because reasons only I would understand and/or care about.