Sekijitsu - Critical Abstraction (Page 2)

Fairy Tail (2014) - First Impressions

Well, I'm a week later to the punch, but I wanted to do my first impressions of the new season of Fairy Tail even with the second episode already being out. So believe it or not, this was my most anticipated anime coming out this season and I'm happy to see that the first episode...

Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - First Impressions

Going head first into Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, the first thing that drew me into the first few minutes was the fact that magic was explained as more of a produce of science rather than something supernatural. The only gripe I have with this type of reasoning is why is it even called "magic"...

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji S2 10-11: Meeting the Family

Going into the final two episodes for the second season of Gin no Saji, and there has been a good amount of serious and seriously funny moments in the season

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji S2 08-09: Playing Dominoes with Money

Well damn, these past two episodes were the very definition of being smacked with a ton of bricks. When we first started out it was more about the problems held

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji S2 06-07: Stepping Up

I was pretty upset when episode seven didn't come out last week considering what happened during the sixth episode, which was actually something I was looking forward to writing this

Imagine That

Imagine That: Harems Were Bidirectional

It is February fourteenth and for those that don't know that means, it is Valentine's Day. So instead of doing something silly like appreciate my loved ones or even spend

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji S2 04-05: Stress Test

It is slowly becoming more evident that we won't be going back to the mystery between Mikage and Komaba, but at this point I don't want to be hung up

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji S2 02-03: Struggle Buddies

I have always found the way Silver Spoon introduces conflict very strange; the first episode was basically "something is going on between Mikage and Komaba", but when the

Imagine That

Imagine That: The Net Wasn't So Neutral

Welcome to the first installment of what I'm calling "Imagine That". Essentially this series will focus on many different hypotheticals and how, based on my interpretation, it will

Gin No Saji

Gin no Saji: Second Season - First Impressions

My most anticipated anime for this season has arrived and I'm pretty excited to see what this season has to offer. So by the end of Silver Spoon's first season my biggest, and only, complaint about the series was the rather lacking detail of problems being faced by the characters.

Witch Craft Works

Witch Craft Works - First Impressions

A new year, and another season is here; so what do we have going into 2014? Well a big breasted, magical, high school girl who is flaunted over by the whole school, yet has a kuudere personality and is protecting a high school boy from other magically people. Why? Cause Anime!

Pupa

Pupa - First Impressions

Pupa was one of the anime last season I was going to do first impressions on, but it ended up falling through because it didn't air. For those that don't know why this anime got delayed, it was because the studio didn't want it to air censored...

White Album

White Album 2 - Review

From the beginning, a lot of what White Album 2 had to offer was a pretty standard high school set slice-of-life, following a rather bland male character named Kitahara Haruki. And that kind of reaction is my main reasoning for having such an unimpressed reaction first going into the series.

Noucome

The Illusion of Choice

As the end of NouCome aired about a week ago with a rather unconventional amount of episodes -- that being ten rather than twelve or thirteen -- I wanted to

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 12: Glimmer of Hope

I really dislike having to mention undertones of series multiple times, but with the whole Tower of Babel comparisons, it is inevitable to have this blatantly planted message put into

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 11: Crashing Down

All questions that lead up to this episode have been cleared up in the first few minutes into this episode, and swift turned to destruction just as quickly. We now

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 10: Risking it All

With all these fights happening in parallel, the episode felt like it was really shifting gears in intensity; and with the pattern of the first season to look back on,

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 09: My Dear Comrade

Not even going to lie, the most exciting part of this episode was Elizabeth finally waking up from her shock induced comma. With her coming back, a lot of the

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 08: Divine Punishment

We are back in full swing to the arc that we first started in, the E-Pandora arc. And with a title like "Rebellion", this is the one episode

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 07: Breaking Free

After so much tension in the last few episodes, this one finally settles down and marks the end to the abuse and psychological damage done to Satellizer, cause by her

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 06: These Chains

A pretty interesting contrast between the last episode and this one, that being from physical to psychological torture. However, it is a bit disheartening to see such powerful women --

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 05: Silencing Dissent

Chevalier has certainly began to flex their muscle in this episode; and the brunt of their rampage is focused heavily on both Elizabeth and her family's company, Mably. Elizabeth knew

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 04: There Will Be Blood (and Tears)

Around the end of the third episode I was beginning to wonder why they didn't show the full mock fight between Satellizer and Gina, but now I know quite clearly

Freezing

Freezing Vibration 03: Anything for Results

In this episode, I've noticed a substantial increase in air time of the Pandora's wobbly bits. Not that it bothers me, but it is something to point out as this

White Album

White Album 2 - First Impressions

Going into White Album 2, I knew that this wouldn't be related to the first White Album, so I didn't attempt to refresh my memory with the other two predecessors. That being said, when they mentioned the song "White Album" and played it throughout the episode, the memories started to show back up.