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Btoom 1 - Something about this just didn't sit well. ANN sums it up better than I can, even if it's with a more hate than I actually felt for the episode. Definitely the season's first solid dud I've watched.

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There's a taste of Gantz in this survival-action series, and that is not a good thing. Gantz was trash in the worst sense of the term: dumb, gory, exploitative; the kind of trash that isn't gonzo fun but rather leaves you feeling dirty and totally disinclined to continue.All of which is true of BTOOOM!. Just without Gantz’s visual panache, camp humor, orsci-fi weirdness. Woo hoo. Begin with a self-deluded, mother-abusing, unemployed loser. His name is Ryota. The only place where he's worth anything is in the virtual world of a combat game called BTOOM, where he's an ace at blowing fake people up. And then one day he wakes up on a deserted island. He has no memory of how he got there, and only a day's worth of food and eight bombs to keep him company.He's attacked by an obviously insane man also armed with bombs, during which time he realizes to his horror that he's now trapped in an all-too-real version of his favorite game.

Like Gantz, it isn't BTOOOM’s premise that kills it—though it is low-brow, high-concept crud of the first order—or its nasty violence and gratuitous sexuality (both of which it has in considerably less volume), but rather its utter contempt for its characters.It clearly has no respect or sympathy for Ryota, presenting him as a one-dimensional pile of deluded selfishness.And it isn't any kinder to the rest of humanity.Ryota's mom is nagging zombie, his game-friends are insensitive boors, and the only guy he meets on the island is a brain-dead psychopath. pisode two promises a damaged high-school girl and what look like sweaty otaku rapists. It's the kind of sneering unpleasantness that anime series often try to pawn off as realism but that mostly makes you wonder if the writers actually know any real people. If you must watch people on an island killing each other off, watch Battle Royale. It's crueler, smarter, and infinitely more nuanced. And superior as action to boot. It's hard to care about a showdown when you want everyone to die.

SAO 14- For some reason, I was under the impression this was the last episode. Would've been a great ending too. Some nice twisting, potential bad end, a little (but not an awful) dose of deus ex and a lightly bitter, mostly sweet close. What else is there to do for 11 episodes?

Code Breaker 1: Aww, that dog is so derpy! So cute! Look at his little legs fluttering around. All dogs should be animated like this, it adds so much spice to a show filled with such boringly designed chara.... OH MY GOD. GANG MEMBERS WAT R U DOING? STAHP! GANG MEMBERS, STAHP! THEY KILLED HIM. THEY KILLED THE CUTEST THING I'VE SEEN SINCE THAT CORGI PUPPY I SAW ON REDDIT ON THURSDAY. THEY WEREN'T EVEN THAT DISCRETE ABOUT IT, THEY JUST BEAT THE pomegranate OUT OF IT THEN THE GODDAMN "PROTAGONIST" COMES AND OVER AND STRAIGHT UP STRANGLES LITTLE CAPTAIN DERPY. HOW COULD THEY? HOW DARE THEY?!?! I'm rage quitting this show. Too much to handle.

 But the actual content of this show justifies some spoilers

Because they totally Ga-Rei'd it and I looooove it. Sure seemed like this show was going to be some sort of Full Metal Panic done even worse with Mister Hard-Ass and Miss Totally-Replaceable-Stock-Female-Protagonist having adventures but mostly having high school drama. "Just like always, I'll eliminate her" and I'm sitting there thinking, "fat chance, that chick's either about to prove herself useful, discover her own bullpomegranate powers, or be kept around as eye candy for some even stupider reason." They even made her an aikido expert, that was well-played. Hand to face... "Burn." Bullpomegranate happens in 3... 2... she bursts into flame. Not in the ED, not in the preview, WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE?

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But no, I imagine she's alive and this show is the trite piece of forgettable blandness with its pretty magic boys and utterly unoriginal characters it seems to be. I want to be wrong. I want so desperately to be wrong. But they killed Inu. They killed him in cold-blood. Unforgivable.

RIP Inu. XX/XX/2012 Never forget!

Jojo 1 -
This is the best show this season. And to hell with anyone who doesn't enjoy it with gg trollsubs. Totally lost my pomegranate when Roundabout started playing as the ED. That song pineappleing rocks.


ffffff so many more shows to watch!