Anime Review: Wind Breaker Season 2

Wind Breaker’s second season, at first glance, seems like it’s characterization is weaker than the series first season, with protagonist Haruka Sakura taking a backseat to some of the supporting cast. Instead I’d say the characterization of Sakura moves in a different direction, though we do get more development for one of the members of Bofurin’s Four Kings.

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Anime Review: Please Put Them On, Takamine-San!

Ghu Bless the Reiwa-era rom-com! We have, with Please Put Them On, Takamine-San!,  which I’m just going to call Takamine-san going forward, a fanservice comedy that generally nails the character dynamics. This includes sexual slapstick that has consent (except one bit in the first episode)! This isn’t a bar that you’d think would need to be cleared, but it is, and it has, though its head did strike the bar.

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TV Review: Twin Peaks: The Return

The end of Twin Peaks’ second season had Laura Palmer tell us she’d see us again in 25 years, before leaving the Real Cooper trapped in the Black Lodge, and BOB wearing Cooper’s body. The film, Fire Walk With Me, provided more details about the background, including Laura Palmer’s last days, but left Cooper’s fate horrifyingly up in the air. We weren’t to get answers for another 25 years of real time. Twin Peaks: The Return serves as a farewell to the world of the series and its characters, as David Lynch’s (somewhat unintentional) final work, and a bit of a commentary on how the world (and television) has changed in the last quarter-century.

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