Karen's Anime Blog
Because there's always time for more anime
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- Clevatess Episode Six
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Tag: Summer 2025
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Still in Origin Stratum, Boxxo reviews his options and realizes that for three million points, he can become a Level Three Vending Machine. What other possible abilities could Boxxo unlock that he doesn’t have already? The mind boggles. After the OP, our heroes start evacuating people out of the stratum, using the transport circle that…
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Sometimes, a show really just clicks with you, for no obvious reason. There are shows that I really don’t think are very good in any sort of objective sense that I enjoyed immensely, and I don’t know why. With Turkey!, I seem to have the opposite scenario going on; everything it does pisses me off,…
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Last time, Rintarou and Kaoruko scheduled a study date for Saturday in the hopes of helping Rintarou pass his midterm exams. Saturday morning, Rintarou wakes up early and takes the train. People on the train are scared of him two separate times in this episode, and it really shows how tiring it must be for…
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This week, it’s time to prepare for that school anime staple, the cultural festival. Gojo and Marin’s class decides to do “Russian Roulette Takoyaki” and err, I have some concerns. I’ve had takoyaki before and liked it, but would I really want to eat takoyaki when some percentage of the fish balls have a giant…
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Last time, Sakuta had just met up with the mysterious Touko Kirishima, the mysterious singer in a Santa suit. Touko reveals that she’s been giving out Puberty Syndrome as “presents,” so Sakuta naturally asks her to cut it out with that nonsense. Touko agrees, because she’s already done with it: she’s gifted Puberty Syndrome to…
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I’m a little late getting to this episode; I wanted to sit on it for a few days and see if I could make more sense of my thoughts. But everything is still a jumble. Shizuka’s trip to Tokyo went almost exactly how I thought it would, except I did not expect the earlier parts…
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Watching television can be fun, but it sure does take time– time that you likely no longer have in the fast-paced world of today. Instead of laboriously tracking the output of the frighteningly prolific island nation known as Japan, we now provide this exquisitely-curated service to give you the main idea of everything remotely important…
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Last time, Momo killed the Great Mongolian Death Worm with a little help from the local fire department. Now, the volcano has erupted, and the Kitos are livid. Mom Kito is screaming at Momo that the Great Serpent Lord protected the village from the volcano, but Momo thinks otherwise: she thinks the fountain she saw…
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This one has a pretty ridiculous premise, and I don’t want to spoil it: just know that a yakuza gets a middle school choir boy to give him singing lessons at a karaoke bar, and the details as to why are priceless. You definitely have not seen this premise before. This was a nice first…
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Last time, our intrepid vending machine hero helped close the gap in the village wall for Clearview Lake Village, and the constant monster attacks have died down. Now, everybody is working together to rebuild the village, despite the heat. Hulemy is working on getting the transportation circle back up and running, while Lammis helps by…
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