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86 episode 3

Rating: 4.5 (of 5) Episode 2 devoted close to half its running time to setting up and executing an action spectacle. Episode 3, by comparison, has no visual action, even though the 86s do eventually go into combat and one of them – a named character with a major speaking part in this episode, evenContinue reading “86 episode 3”

86 episode 2

Rating: 4.5 (of 5) The most predominant underlying theme of the first part of 86 is racism, especially the self-destructive (or at the very least self-limiting) impact of it on a country as a whole. However, the series will have other themes as well, and another of those starts to come more sharply into focusContinue reading “86 episode 2”

So I’m a Spider, So What? episode 14

Rating: 2.5 This episode has the expected big plot twist on the human side and some juicy revelations going down on the spider side, but neither is likely to be what is most-talked about for this episode. No, that (dis)honor goes to the animation and direction effort on the episode. Really, did this episode getContinue reading “So I’m a Spider, So What? episode 14”

86

86 episode 1 Rating: 4.5 (of 5) 86 is my most-anticipated new series of the Spring 2021 season, as I am current on the American release of the source novels (and have previously reviewed the first four volumes for ANN) and have felt ever since reading the first novel that the first story arc, atContinue reading “86”

So I’m a Spider, So What?

So I’m A Spider, So What? episode 13 Rating: 4 (of 5) NOTICE: This is the first of the episode reviews of this series that I am doing for this blog. If you did not follow me to this blog from Anime News Network, then you can find the episode reviews I did for theContinue reading “So I’m a Spider, So What?”