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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 77/Knight/Kiss of Debt, etc/Balsa, The Female Bodyguard"
August 24, 2008 - 12:08p.m.
Looks like this is it, gang. Due to low numbers, low interest, and the upcoming influx of Fall TV, the Adult Swim Saturday coverage is closing down–most likely for good. I can't say I'm entirely unhappy about ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 76/Nunnally Held Hostage/A Penny For Your Thoughts..."
August 10, 2008 - 02:08p.m.
Bad news, everyone: no Death Note rerun this week, and going by the schedule, it looks like the show may be off the regular roster for a long time. So I guess we'll just have to be happy with ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 75/Pursuit/Cheering Mao/Along Came A Rider, etc."
August 3, 2008 - 04:08p.m.
After all the exposition and flashbacking of "74", "Episode 75" of Bleach switches gears with a solid action sequence between Yoshino and one of Kariya's Bounts, a big guy named Koga. When Yoshino calls out her fire doll Goethe ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 74/Dealings/Geass Vs. Geass/Admission Impossible, etc."
July 27, 2008 - 03:07p.m.
"Episode 74" of Bleach is light on action, and apart from a couple of brief scenes, it's light on its main hero. During the confrontation with Han and Bo, Uryu, ashamed at his weakness and determined not to put ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 73/Confrontation/Shirley At Gunpoint/Action Bastard, etc."
July 20, 2008 - 06:07p.m.
There's water, water everywhere in "Episode 73" of Bleach. Ichigo and Renji meet Uryu and the others outside the hospital after seemingly losing the Bount twins Ho and Ban, but the situation keeps getting worse because the city is ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 72/Rebirth/The Messenger From Kyoto/Raging Bullshin, etc."
July 13, 2008 - 05:07p.m.
I've been a bit hard on Bleach these past few weeks. Partly because I have a lot of hate in my heart, but mostly because it's a series with a lot of potential–a rich mythology, likeable characters ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 71/New World/Battle For Narita/Wrestlewomania/Wet Dreams May Come/Shin-derella-Chan"
July 6, 2008 - 05:07p.m.
A moment of silence, please. Death Note is dead. Long live Death Note. Although it's still dead. So that doesn't really work.
On a series with the sort of tension that Note excelled at–screw-turning, pulse-pounding, scrotum-squeezing drama ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 70/1.28/Guren Dances/The Widow Breaker/Whitey Man's Burden/Look Who's Stalking"
June 29, 2008 - 04:06p.m.
"Episode 70" of Bleach opens with a quick recap. Thank goodness, really, there's been so much plot to bring everybody up to speed on. What with the previous threat ending up a thoroughly pointless training mission, and the apparent ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 69/Malice/Refrain/The Boy Scouts of Japan/The Not-So-Last Temptation of Hiro/Cupid's a Slut"
June 22, 2008 - 04:06p.m.
Oh "Episode 69" of Bleach. I wanted to enjoy you. Truly, I did. I–I know we've had our problems in the past. I know there have been some words, and that most of them were mine; "filler" and ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 68/Vigilance/The Black Knights/Crash, Test Dummy/Makeup, Little Penny/Fairly Bad Things"
June 15, 2008 - 02:06p.m.
A commenter last week asked me what I liked about Code Geass, and while I did my best to answer then, I've been thinking about it since; more to the point, I've been thinking about anime in general ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
June 7th: "Episode 65/Attack Cornelia/Scorn/Miss Katz Has Got The AIDS/Hos Think They Can Dance"
June 9, 2008 - 10:06a.m.
Of the four shows in the anime block, three have males of roughly the same age. But while Ichigo of Bleach is a largely re-active hero, working to fix problems and rescue his friends, Lelouch of Code Geass and Light ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
"Episode 65/The Stolen Mask/Selection/Ass Got Breezy Being Green/Summer Baby"
June 2, 2008 - 11:06a.m.
It was discussed in last week's comments that the current Bleach arc is basically filler, created to stall for time so Tite Kubo, writer and illustrator of the manga on which the series is based, could come up with ...
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Adult Swim Saturday
May 24: "Episode 65/The Princess And The Witch/Transfer/It Puts The Lotion On The Baby/Dildor Of Destiny"
May 26, 2008 - 09:05a.m.
Good news, everyone! Bowing to the will of the republic, The A.V. Club Watches Adult Swim Because I Don't Leave The House On Weekends has been split into two easy to swallow entries, Saturday Night Action Etc. and ...
