Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 4

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 5) – The show must make sense of its convoluted situation.
Super Cub (Ep. 4) – Ah, that’s relaxing, exactly as expected.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 4) – Lucky you, grandma.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 3) – That was some brutal confrontation.

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Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 3

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 4) – Not great when your story requires Evil Twins.
Super Cub (Ep. 3) – A bit more of the same.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 3) – Dull, except shamisen stuff.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 2) – Never liked hyper-energetic kids.

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Musings and Reflections – Spring 2021 Week 1-2

One Phrase Impressions

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 1) – lots of obligatory sci-fi world-building/exposition.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 2) – the Bear is just too shady.
Super Cub (Ep. 1) – unexpectedly wholesome product placement.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 1) – shamisen overshadows the characters and the story.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song (Ep. 3) – a time jump and even more exposition.
Super Cub (Ep. 2) – look – the bike fetched you a friend!
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 2) – settling in Tokyo with more shamisen in the spotlight.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 1) – … yeah…

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