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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Usonoir, a serious villain

Star Detective Precure! #37: Usonoir, inside a mascot costume hanninder with its head up: "Go forth, Hanninder."

The head closes, enclosing Usonoir in as pilot

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

even phantom thieves don't dine and dash!

Star Detective Precure! #37: Nijee, with Usonoir, to Anna: "Usonoir-sama. Apologies for ruining our teatime, but..."

As it clears, we see he left behind payment for the tea he ordered

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When your cartoon is for 6 year olds

Star Detective Precure! #37: A pedestrian traffic light showing green

The mascot costume runs across the pedestrian crossing

Anna and Mikuru recoil in shock and stop dead in their tracks: "A red light!"

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Luluka, a serious detective

Star Detective Precure! #37: Anna, resolutely: "We'll deal with that Makoto Jewel first!"

Luluka, mouth completely full of ice-cream: "Mhmm."

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

when you know who butters your bread

Horror Collector #01: NHK production/channel card at the start of the episode

A schoolgirl, to her mother: "What? When it's this nice out? There's no way it's gonna snow."

The mother, annoyed: "How can you say that? It was the NHK weather forecast."

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To its credit, it is often ambitiously trying to compose a moody and tense shot, and sometimes succeeds quite well!

Horror Collector #01: A schoolgirl runs into her apartment lobby, presented as red and orange late evening lights and stark dark long shadows

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Horror Collector Anime urban legend horror anthology with a connecting narrative with the Saves The Day Protagonist's backstory, or something. It's nothing surprising, tropey but not egregiously, but very much Like That. Kinda works, but I'm not interested, and production already visibly struggles.

Horror Collector #01: Fushigi, a boy in a red hood, intoning ".esruc eht etanimullI" - "Illuminate the curse." backwards

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run Fuck yeah JoJo's Sure the first episode aired in spring, but it's airing weekly now, so whatever. Netflix doing their thing.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part 7: Steel Ball Run. Johnny Joestar stares up into the sky contemplatively.

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tetsuryou! Meet with Tetsudou Musume Cute anoraks doing cute things That's right, "moe hobby anime" has finally reached the topic of trains. There's nothing remarkable about this one but it passes basic competency and manages to be 'pleasant' which is enough for me with these kinds of shows.

Tetsuryou! Meet with Tetsudou Musume #01: Misaki marvelling at an unusual train buffer stop

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NOW THIS IS SOME FUCKING JOJO'S BULLSHIT

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here too - counterspell for 0 mana is cracked

Magic Knight Rayearth '26: Clef discussing the rules of the world, saying "Here in Cefiro, force of will trumps all."

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Magic Knight Rayearth '26 1. the 90's affectations don't land without the 90's cel animation backing it 2. the animation itself here is... "efficient" 3. I kinda wasn't that hot on the original in the end (4. the Thaliarchus special: I think they should draw the robots) I think I'll pass, alas

Magic Knight Rayearth '26 #01: Hikaru, Fuu, and Umi falling through the air after getting isekai'd

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Onto the second batch!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part 6: Stone Ocean #13: second part title card

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

rather funny episode when viewed from the perspective of Britain's darts culture and the stereotypes around it

Star Detective Precure! #36: Anna asks Mikuru "That game where you throw darts at a target, right?"

The old man victim-of-the-week rushes up close to them and hollers "It ain't just no game!!" to their terror

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

EXCELLENT one-off character

Star Detective Precure! #36: Furuya Miki, a bookshop assistant with purple hair in big pigtails and wearing big round glasses, worries over her grandfather

Her looking over to her grandfather, concerned

Her happily explaining her grandfather's exercise process, while he demonstrates

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

when u want to make a normal phone call but ur a stand user

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean #10: Jolyne on the prison phone, standing very awkwardly

from a different angle, again posing oddly

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm Looking For a Zombie was really insubstantial. Just another zombie post-apocalypse show, but with a very cheery light-hearted tone, but not in a way that does much. That the characters are super 1-dimensional kinda seals it. Didn't do anything for me.

#I'm Looking For a Zombie #01: Aki standing on the roof of a truck, hollering in manic obsession "Just you wait, zombies! I'm gonna dry every last one of you out!" while her companions watch on

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Ramparts of Ice is back baby, and it's kicking off with BIG DRAMA The final part of the year of Agasawa Koucha

The Ramparts of Ice S2 #01: Koyuki blushing hard and looking deeply awkward and nervous

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*incredible* opening disclaimer

FX Fighter Kurumi-chan #01: Episode opening disclaimer, saying "this is a work of fiction" and essentially "don't fucking do fx trading and if you do don't hold us responsible for your losses"

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New season, new anime! Starting autumn with FX Fighter Kurumi-chan, a show about cute anime girls (uni students) doing forex trading! And boy does it start, uh, bleak manga reviews also suggest a psychological intensity I don't think I'm here for? Not sure I wanna see r/wsb: the animation either

FX Fighter Kurumi-chan #01: Kurumi, at her desk, watching a forex trading screen with her head held in despair, crying out "Please, G-God. I cannot lose this money."

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

no idea if this is a good first effort lol, game overed on stage 4 quite overwhelming, but in the same way as rhythm games - a lot of information coming at you at once, and I haven't developed the skill to ingest and act on it yet

Touhou EoSD end screen, showing 41.47% progress

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good for you, Mashutan :)

Luluka's hapiily surrounded by classmates, and Kurea smiles at the scene

Pan up to see Mashutan and Shushutan watching through the window

Mashutan, overwhelmed with joy, says through tears "I'm sho happy foh you~ Luluka~" while Shushutan wipes away the tears

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yeah Shiori rocks, there's not much time left but I hope we see more of her

Star Detective Precure! #35: Shiori, to Luluka, making a heart with her hands: "You brought the two of them together, didn't you?"

"Luluka is your personal cupid!" Shiori is shown with fairy wings and a heart bow-and-arrow against a romantic cupid-like backdrop

"Call her The Love Detective!" Shiori switches the scene, now wearing a detective hat and holding up a magnifying glass to her eye against a brick backdrop she's spotlit against

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

she's so proud of her daughter :')

Star Detective Precure! #35: Mashutan, proudly: "Luluka started a conversation, all by herself!"

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swabl @swabl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh hey, they've finally edited the henshins together it's obviously never as good as the standalones, but here especially it reveals just how exceptionally bespoke the henshins are this season, they're not compatible with each other!