Category: Television
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The third episode of Uzumaki is more focused than the previous two, but the cracks in the show’s structure are showing more. Thematically, this episode continues to expand on the ideas of generational conflict, leading to breakdowns in society, while ramping up the scale of the narrative. While episodes 1 and 2 contained overlapping narratives…
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This week’s episode keeps much of what made the series premiere so effective, though there is a noticeable drop in the quality of the animation. Still, the horrors of the spiral contamination in Kurouzu-cho are fascinating and disturbing to witness, even if this episode highlights some of Ito’s humor more than last week’s episode did.…
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Fans have been waiting for upwards of five years for the Adult Swim Anime adaptation of Uzumaki, Junji Ito’s horror Manga masterpiece. After some delays, fans were skeptical that it would ever find a release, and when it was announced that it would only be 4 short episodes (the manga is about 650 pages), fans stayed…
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When WandaVision premiered on Disney Plus in 2021, it marked a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was the franchise’s first TV series, it was the beginning of what would later be named the Multiverse Saga, and it was the first MCU property to be released after the lost pandemic year of 2020.…
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Season finales are always tricky. A show has to wrap things up while still allowing the story to continue, leaving very little room for error. It’s a storytelling Scylla and Charybdis that’s wrecked many a series, so even though I’ve loved Kaiju No. 8 so far, I went into this latest episode with some trepidation.…
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I was not ready for “Kaiju No. 8 Captured.” Sure, this show has had emotional moments before, but it’s never given us anything like the sustained gut punch of this latest episode. It picks up right where “Secret Revealed” left off, with Kafka now being under the custody of the Anti-Kaiju Defense Force, but he’s…
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We knew from the very beginning of Kaiju No. 8 that Kafka’s Anti-Kaiju Defense Force comrades would eventually find out about his alter ego. It was in Crunchyroll’s description of the show when the first episode aired, and I’ve been waiting for that moment ever since. So when I heard that this latest installment was…
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Last week’s episode of Kaiju No. 8 ended with some mysterious new monsters flying into town, and I said in my review that these creatures would almost certainly give the Anti-Kaiju Defense Force some big problems. Well, it turns out I was right, but even I didn’t know how much havoc these things would cause.…
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What happens when Kafka’s kaiju alter ego goes up against one of the highest-ranking members of the Anti-Kaiju Defense Force? Last week’s episode of Kaiju No. 8 teased a confrontation between Vice-Captain Hoshina and Kafka that would answer that question, but it ended right there. We had to wait another week to see how their…
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If you’ve been following my reviews of Kaiju No. 8, you know how disappointed I was with the fifth episode, “Joining Up!”. It was the show’s first real hiccup, but I was confident that future installments would get back on track. I ended up being right, but even I’m surprised by how good the series…