Story Having finally recovered from reviewing a succession of average to utterly dire anime at the cruel behest of others, I decided to take my destiny into my own hands, and publish my thoughts on an altogether more acceptable anime. While I didn’t expect to be able to remove the sordid memories of the last show I reviewed, I was hoping to at least find enough of a claming influence to dispel my fury and perhaps even convince the judge that the psychotic rampage was merely an environmentally-induced episode and not at all indicative of my true nature. For the purpose, I selected Gakuen Alice - a... See full review
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What do you get if you cross a rabbit detective, a surprisingly patient Grim Reaper, and an American Consulate dripping with blithe insanity? The fact that I watched all of these characters in action and still don't know the answer says quite something about the nature of Gag Manga Biyori.
This show is surreal. Not surreal in the Dadaist tradition of putting an apple on a chair and inviting the audience to draw conclusions about the meaning of life. No. Gag Manga Biyori's conception of surreal takes a cricket bat, hammers fourteen nails into it, and then uses it to repeatedly strike the part... See full review