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Tenga Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 8

First off the download link. Anon’s (4chan subbing group) version can be downloaded here in torrent form. Next off, after giving it some thought, I think I’m going to stop doing reviews per se and instead focus on discussing the episode. After losing all willpower to try to write a review on something then think why in the world someone wants a review of something they’ve either already seen or are going to see anyway I had to just… think awhile. Anyway it’s going to be more along the lines of an episode discussion. Screenshots will continue but it’ll go more in detail along the plot lines and meanings behind things. This should make a little bit more sense.

Anyway screenshots:

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Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode Seven

You can download Gurren Lagann episode 7 from 4chan’s anon fansubbers (this is a torrent and not a direct download link). Remember, for archiving it’s HIGHLY recommended to get AiA’s or wait until a group such as Shinsen or GG pick this up.

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Episode Summary

Viral is back and a new enemy approaches, the great ganmen. How will the Gurren Dan take on such an enemy? Its firepower is far superior to anything they have and combined with Viral and a the fact the great ganmen stores and launches ganmen of its own… how will the Gurren Dan survive?

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Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode Six

You can download Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode Six (in Torrent format) from 4chan’s Anon Fansubbers. As of posting AiA has done a release as well, but I don’t have the link handy. This is a hybrid recap episode, as a warning, so don’t get overly excited about it.

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Episode Summary

The members of the Gurren Dan look back upon their journey and what got them to this point. All the while they find an exotic new location and stop and rest for a bit. However, is there truly no rest for Kamina? What awaits them as this seemingly friendly location.

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Gintama Episode 21

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Gintama Episode 21 by Shinsen Subs was pretty decent. It wasn’t the best episode ever, but the comedy was constant and entertaining. The rest of it was, I don’t know, mediocre.

Not much to say, I give it a B.

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 4 Review

While playing catchup screenshots aren’t available. Download links either (I picked up the .ass file and raw to watch it)

Episode four of Gurren Lagann is also known as the director killer. When it aired 2chan and 4chan flooded every medium possible to let Gainax know how much they disliked how they “ruined” the series with a different art style.

The truth is that, yeah, the art was a little different but the show remained the same. It was still awesome  and the weird faces were hard to spot without paying attention. Even in the end it was still good.

We of course, met a few new people  who previously only appeared in the op

Anyway, this brief review gives episode 4 an A. The plus was taken and put on hold for the weird faces at the start of the episode and for the 2chan/4chan drama.

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 3 Review

We’re going to suspend screenshots until everything is caught up! Download links are available elsewhere for now as well, while we catch up on the backlog.

Gurren Lagann shows us that once again it’s the most awesome anime ever released. Seriously, it is the absolute most best anime ever. Well, in the last few years anyway. I don’t even think FLCL could compete with what Gurren Lagann has become.

I’m going to spoil this and just say in episode three Kamina makes the impossible possible. In a fight with what appears to be one of the head ganmen Kamina grabs Simon’s ganmen and shoves it into the head of the ganmen HE STOLE last episode.  Afterwards, he steals the helmet off of the enemies head. While all of this is going on awesome music is playing.

This episode was just… amazing.

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 2

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 2 Review/Screenshots

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This episode was fantastic to the point that even I, the mild mannered updater of this website, was boiling over with joy and glee as I uploaded screenshots. The Burning Justice (with capital first letters for emphasis) is so thick in this show that you may need sunglasses to watch. Seriously!

This show starts off with a bang, two Ganmen (the thing that attacked in episode 1) versus Kamina and the Gurren-dan. In fighting these two Ganmen they realize that they aren’t all powerful nor are they the absolute epitome of the skill. A fine trait of a FANTASTIC series is mecha pilots who are skilled with COURAGE instead of, you know, magical plot skill that isn’t based on courage. Continue reading ‘Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Episode 2′

Hayate no Gotoku Episode 2

So much anime this season, no screenshots for this one but you should be watching it anyway. In episode two of Hayate no Gotoku is of course available here. It’s without a doubt a VERY good episode and continues the epic saga of Hayate and his bid for freedom. Last time we left off Hayate used his PLOT DEVICE to catch a car in an attempt to rescue Shana I mean Nagi. She proclaimed that he would be his butler. Episode two continued from the point of him recovering from his injuries.

Overall the episode was fantastic. Not only did we get character development (Nagi is in love with Hayate for sure and Hayate is kind of clueless but not all the way) but we also got a few MASSIVE plot points taken care of. Which is kind of unusual.

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Bleach Episode 121

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Bleach episode 121 is out by Dattebayo (awhile ago at that). It’s well, an amazing episode. To be honest I don’t really feel that Bleach is worthy of an essay of words on why it’s good so I’m just going to cut this short and give its rank: B+

Decent episode, lots of action, plot development, lack of filler characters, and some other stuff make it a pretty decent episode.

Hayate no Gotoku!

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Hayate no Gotoku (or literally Hayate the Combat Butler or in moon language ハヤテのごとく!) is a brand new anime with Rie Kugimiya as the VA for Nagi Sanzenin or the female lead. What does this mean? Well, we pretty much have Shakugan no Shana version three. Zero no Tsukaima was considered by many to the second Shana as it’s a slice of life anime with the same VA doing the same style voice. This one will probably be alittle bit more interesting then ZnT and Shana.

So, let’s establish the facts. Keiichiro Kawaguchi is the director, who did Ginban Kaleidoscope, Great Teacher Onizuka, and Getsumen To Heiki Mina. All four of these were VERY good animes and all of them were kind of slice of life with some action put in here and there. We’ve got Rie Tanaka of Gundam fame as a maid (a kind of off cast character). My favorite, Norio Wakamoto is the kind of announcer who is also MECHAZAWA from Cromartie High School.

The all star cast is already lined up. What else does Hayate have to pull out for us? Outside of the HD raws available for us NA viewers… a lot! It’s got so far a pretty good plot, Shana’s voice, and a cast of other VA’s who are just absolutely fantastic.

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