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Couldn’t Be a Hero #04 — A Plot Plus B Plot
Apparently equals zero plot. Impressions: An episode lending more credance to my theory last week that only the odd numbered episodes have any effort put into them, animation or otherwise. And ye...
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Not a Hero #05 — Capitalism
It’s a good thing Japan doesn’t have Black Friday because apparently that would blow their minds. Impressions: Yeesh. I’m sure there’s more than a little cultural disconnect here, but "Walmart opens...
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Couldn’t Be a Hero #06 — And Nobody Gets Dental
This is past comically evil and starting to make me sad. Impressions: Is this show trying to have some kind of competition with Valvrave for most ridiculous antagonists? That has military equip run...
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Something About Being a Hero #07 — More Slime
Was installing an AC really a two week ordeal? Impressions: Well at least it made me laugh for the first time in a long while. Not because of any attempt at comedy. Ye gods, no. Because at the big...
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The Air Conditioner Saga #08 — Just Like the ED, Only 13 Times Longer!
Is the rest of this show going to be about air conditioners? Impressions: Remember how Walmart was evil for whoring out their female employees and making a big spectacle of things? Clearly not. At...
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Couldn’t Boff a Hero #09 — Budget Friendly Backgrounds
We all know this is going nowhere, so why are we bothering? Impressions: Pretty much just a date episode with no greater effort or ambition than "Put Phino against a bunch of flowery backgrounds"...
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Heroes and ACs or Something #10 — Hand in a Box
It’s no Dick in a Box. Impressions: I’d probably be more annoyed by the obligatory turn to the dramatic and inevitable angsting, misunderstandings, and shouting about "my true feelings" if I wasn’t...
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Couldn’t Be a Hero #11 — Wherein They Find the Budget Again
At least someone’s trying… sort of? There. All caught up finally. At least until the next time something inside me decides it wants to visit the outside world. Impressions: The pacing was a little...
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Couldn’t Be a Hero #12 — Play-Doh Skulls
The phrenologists are probably crying. Impressions: Competent if expectedly (and somewhat boringly) cliche. It probably helped that Phino just didn’t talk period through the final battle, and Raul...
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I Forget My Pithy Title For This Show #13 — Checkbox Checked
Because this show wasn’t content to go off into the night without a few more horrible cliches. Impressions: When it began with a shrill little girl going on about her onii-chan, I groaned. Then...
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