Yurika Jumps on that Train — Eleven Days of Advent and One Day of Christmas #10

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He’s leaving home, never to return. Yurika agrees to stay behind— she can’t abandon her education and her family. He would never be able to support her.

She waves goodbye at the train station. The doors begin to close.

She jumps on.

 

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Campione! Goes Batshit Crazy — Eleven Days of Advent and One Day of Christmas #9

For most of its run, Campione was an inoffensive and forgettable harem series, with a bonus of occasional pseudo-mystical gibberish thrown in. Then in episode twelve, the show lost its marbles. Our hero shares a passionate kiss with the heroine, then starts humping her. And that’s only the beginning.

Check out E Minor’s harem hill spotlight for the full story.

Shin Sekai Yori 11 + 12 — Strength and Weakness

We’re back from the abyss of the previous episode, where we spent twenty minutes staring at Saki’s poorly animated crotch and crying over a dead puppy. This is back on the right track now.

I do think this show would do better if it had an extra season though. The pacing is fast.

 A Replacement

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The school board and / or ethics committee wipes Shuu’s existence from everyone’s memory. This shouldn’t be too surprising given what we’ve seen of the village so far.

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Sengoku Rice — Eleven Days of Advent and One Day of Christmas #8

Hideyoshi and Nobunaga enter a dream world and fight in a battle between rice and wheat. Sengoku Collection episode 8. The most brilliant episode of 2012. I’m not even going to try to explain why because I’ll fail to do it justice. Go watch it now. You don’t need to watch the rest of the series, it doesn’t matter. Just take a look at this episode, you won’t regret it.