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Shoujo Kageki: Revue Starlight

Posted on October 7, 2018 8:08 am by Offkorn Comment

Attending the prestigious Seishou Music Academy, Karen Aijou holds a dream of performing on stage in the Starlight Revue with her childhood friend Hikari Kagura. A dream which finally seems within her reach when Hikari returns from overseas to attend Seishou as well… but the path to the Revue is a harsh one, and only a single performer out of a select group can qualify for the honor.

A school-life relationship drama centered on theater performance as combat. It has a large of amount of comic relief and a fondness for symbology.

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Hataraku Onii-san!

Posted on October 6, 2018 1:30 pm by Offkorn Comment

Follow the everyday adventures of college students Tapio and Kuehiko as they work together on all manner of odd jobs despite their radically different personalities.

A slightly educational workplace comedy featuring a different type of job each episode. It has picture-drama style visuals and leans toward absurdist comedy.

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Sunohara-sou no Kanrinin-san

Posted on October 6, 2018 9:33 am by Offkorn Comment

Constantly mistaken for a girl due to his shy nature and small stature, Aki Shiina wants to try reinventing himself by attending a middle school in Tokyo. With no family in the area he plans to stay at the Sunohara-sou dorm run by Ayaka Sunohara… who he quickly develops a crush on. Also staying at the dorm are three members of his school’s student council, each of whom is eccentric in their own way, promising a hectic and hormonal time ahead.

An ecchi pseudo-gag comedy with prominent slice of life aspects and minor romantic development.

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Overlord III

Posted on October 5, 2018 1:23 pm by Offkorn Comment

Having had most of Re-Estize’s criminal underworld unexpectedly placed under his control, Ainz is forced to re-evaluate his goals for Nazarick and further embrace the persona of an infallible dark lord.

Continuing on from where Overlord II left off after a brief interlude, this season focuses on community and empire building. It expects you to have seen both previous entries.

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Sirius: Sirius the Jaeger

Posted on October 4, 2018 2:07 pm by Offkorn Comment

The year is 1930, and the vampire underworld is poised to make a move to change human society forever in its favor. The only opposition they face is from the informal organization known as the Jaegers, who have recently followed the high-ranking vampire Kershner across the ocean to Japan where they hope to put a stop to his ambitions once and for all.

An action-drama featuring a small romance subplot.

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Steins;Gate 0

Posted on October 3, 2018 9:59 am by Offkorn Comment

After being unable to save Kurisu, Rintarou decides to abandon time travel and live a normal life despite the threat of an impending third world war. A choice sorely tested after encountering an advanced AI based on Kurisu’s research and past memories, an AI which reminds him of everything he had tried so hard to forget.

This is an alternative conclusion to Steins;Gate, continuing from where the β version of its 23rd episode left off. It’s intended to be watched after that and features a similar genre composition weighted more heavily toward drama.

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Back Street Girls -Gokudols-

Posted on October 2, 2018 12:51 pm by Offkorn Comment

Having failed their boss one time too many, a group of three yazuka are forced to undergo gender-reassignment surgery in order to debut as a female idol group. A career change which, much to their horror, they turn out to be remarkably well-suited to.

A situational gag comedy with limited animation that plays off the juxtaposition of idols behaving like yazuka.

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Grand Blue

Posted on October 1, 2018 1:59 pm by Offkorn Comment

Poised to start his first year at college, Iori Kitahara decides to stay at his uncle’s seaside dive center. There he gets dragged into a wet and wild world filled with drinking, scuba diving, partying, and yet more drinking.

A college-life reaction comedy with a focus on both diving and alcohol. It also features a large amount of naked men and a few minor romance elements.

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BEATLESS: I trust in your smile. I won’t care whether you are soulless or not.

Posted on September 30, 2018 9:42 am by Offkorn Comment

After a group of five cutting-edge androids equipped with quantum computing devices break out of a research facility, some of them proceed to cause general mayhem in the city while one attaches herself to Arato Endou as a combination of bodyguard and domestic servant. As it turns out Arato is somehow related to her creation, and her appearance entangles him in the often violent intrigues surrounding these ‘Lacia-class’ humanoid interface devices.

An action-drama with a secondary focus on romance and general human vs. machine theme.

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Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes

Posted on September 28, 2018 2:56 pm by Offkorn 1 Comment

Wandering through Kyoto‘s Teramachi Sanjou shopping district, Aoi Mashiro decides to visit the antique shop Kura in the hopes of selling something of her late grandfather’s. She instead ends up working there to help out the grandson of the shop’s owner, who handles most of the day-to-day business of appraisal and has come to be known around town as “Holmes-san” in part for his ability to get to the heart of any questionable situation.

An educational pseudo-mystery slice of life series with prominent romance elements, frequent comic relief, and periodic emotional outbursts.

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