On the one hand, Lupin Zero is a show that doesn’t “need” to exist. We’ve had several TV specials and the series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine has covered some of this in the past. Lupin Zero tries to put their own spin on it by making Jigen & Lupin either late-Middle Schoolers or early High Schoolers, in a series set contemporaneously with when the manga started running.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury is an excellent example of how to handle shifting the tone of a series incredibly well. The show opens with a prologue episode set several years before the main body of the series, establishing what the Gundams are, and what the Gundam (or GUND-ARM) technology that powers them is based on – before setting up why the Gundams are rare and restricted, and how the main character’s Gundam, in particular, is going to be special in the series to come.
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It’s time to take on the Lightning Guardian.
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We end up having to bust out some cheats due to how the “remove debuff” spell works.
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A little bit late, I have a rundown of 8 of my favorite shows from 2022, with two per season.
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We have our most hazardous map when it comes to knockback.
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We have a u-shaped layout for this map.
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Chainsaw Man is a manga series that I’d have to admit that I held off on reading because I’d read some of the early art and thought it was edgelord crap. However, I kept hearing that no, it’s actually that good. So, when the anime adaptation aired, I decided that this was what I needed to take the plunge and give it a shot. It turns out it’s actually that good. There will be some spoilers for the first season.
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Season 1 of Spy X Family aired as a split cour show – that is, we got 12 episodes, then a break, then the other 12 episodes of this “Season” – so it’s time to get into how the back half of the show turned out.
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We deal with another uphill climb-themed map.
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We clear this one out again – and still no fusil drops. ?
Read moreI’m going to end up missing an episode this week due to various delays related to illness and postponed holiday plans. We will have my otherwise regularly scheduled episode of Breaking It All Down next week.
Unfortunately, we don’t get any dropped fusils.
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We run into a few enemy Fusiliers!
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The first season of Uzaki-Chan wants to hang out was a fun, if kind of standard, sitcom RomCom anime which played into the whole concept of “male character being lightly bullied by a younger female character” which also showed up in “Teasing Master Takagi-San” and in “Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro!” – only this time moving the concept up to college. Unsurprisingly, the anime adaptation got a second season – officially titled “Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out W” (but using the lower-case Greek omega, because it looks like an anime character’s mouth getting mischievous). There will be some spoilers.
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Akiba Maid War was a series I came into this season out of curiosity, and which immediately demonstrated it was something that was absolutely my jam. There will be some spoilers in this review
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We move on to the Lightning Temple.
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We take on the guardian of the WInd Temple, and set to doing some crafting to show how that system works.
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So, well, I fell a little behind due to getting a cold over Winter break – so instead of my planned proper video, here’s some of my plans for the year.
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We clear the entrance to the Wind Temple.
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We have our first level where the tileset shifts from “Fortress” to “Temple”.
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When I put Do It Yourself on my watchlist for this month, I was expecting a more generally explanatory anime series – something along the lines of Diary of our Days at the Breakwater something comedic, and explanatory about the subject matter in question (handicrafts in this case) – and chill but not necessarily a “healing” or “Iyashikei” anime. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this was also one of the warmest and most life-affirming anime of the season.
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Shinobi No Ittoki is probably the most mediocre of the anime series that I’ve watched this season. It’s not bad, it’s kind of “mid”
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We go against a combined group of Winged, Griffons, and Wind Dragons.
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