Now that the founding festival is coming up soon, Yoshino wants to make it a success. Will it be enough to revive the village?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 12 – Behind the Scenes: Prepration for the Founders Festival
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Sakura Quest – Episode 11 – Ririko Shows Her True Self
After the disaster of the grill out with the rain coming, Ririko starts to think she is the dragon. Will she be able to get over it?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 10 – Ririko and the Legend of the Manoyama Dragon
Now that there is a matchmaking tour, I wonder why Ririko doesn’t want to take any part of it.
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Sakura Quest – Episode 9 – The Race to Find the Best Somen Dish and Sayuri’s Calendar Mishap
Now that Shiori wants to take charge of the food presentation event, can she make it work?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 8 – Challenges of Creating the Special Dish
With the movie production complete, Yoshino comes up with another idea to attract more tourism. This time, it involves food.
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Sakura Quest – Episode 7 – Maki’s Soul Searching and Shiori’s House Burning Worries
With half the movie done, will Maki change her mind about acting?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 6 – Losing a Passion and Shiori’s House Worries
It seems that a director picked Manoyama to film a movie there. However, Shiori feels reluctant to letting the director use a certain house. Also, Maki refuses to help them whatsoever. I wonder why?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 5 – Sanae Goes Soul Searching
As Yoshino finds a solution to get her first phase of the PR campaign to revive the town up from the ground, Sanae goes soul-searching.
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Sakura Quest – Episode 4 – Wood Carving District Promotion Dilemma
Now that Yoshino assembled her new team, will her team make a PR campaign for a wood sculpture district a success? It seems harder than it looks.
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Sakura Quest – Episode 3 – Yoshino Gives Her Commitment as Queen
After Yoshino failed to reach her goal, she focuses on her first real media appearance. How will it go?
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Sakura Quest – Episode 1 – Be Careful What You Get Yourself Into!
Yes, I know I haven’t written the spring preview yet, but that is coming. For now, let’s focus on the first show I plan on covering that involves a girl who is looking for a job. Not any job, she wants one in the city. Suddenly, she receives a call to do a certain gig that involves being a queen.
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Haruchika – Episode 12 (END) – Final Competition and Kusabe’s Secret
The big day has come, but Haru and Chika realizes something suspicious from the thing Kusabe is carrying.
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Haruchika – Episode 11 – What it Means to Play Music Professionally
After passing the regional competition, the band is now ready to prepare for nationals. It seems that there is a mysterious woman who can play a piano-like instrument that issued Naoko a challenge. I wonder who she is.
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Haruchika – Episode 10 – Secrets Behind a Dog
I find it somewhat silly that Chika out of all people managed to somewhat injured herself before the preliminaries.
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Haruchika – Episode 9 – The Search for Asmodeus
As the band inches closer to the competition date, the band instructor tries his hardest to prepare the band. Sadly, he collapses for working non-stop. With him out of commission and Mr. Sakai, another band instructor and teacher who manages the band at a different school that the instructor happens to watch got suspended, it seems that both bands are in a tough situation.
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Haruchika – Episode 8 – Searching for the First Lover with Rice Balls?
Now that Chika and Haruta managed to bring Kaiyu, Naoko’s childhood friend back to school, it’s time to solve the mystery regarding her aunt.
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Haruchika – Episode 7 – The Gem Goddess
Believe it or not, I like how Chika deciding to use violence against Haruta. He deserves it for being such a jerk.
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Haruchika – Episode 6 – Serizawa’s Road of Broken Dreams
It’s true that some people don’t want to follow in the same footsteps as their parents. From Serizawa’s view, she dreams of becoming a professional musician. Sadly, her dream is now out of reach for some reason.
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Haruchika – Episode 5 – Finding the Elephant’s Breath
Surprisingly, it’s now spring and apparently there is a girl that has a new mystery for Haruta to solve. What is it?
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Haruchika – Episode 4 – Mystery of the Haunted Apartment Building
It looks like Haruta got evicted from his apartment. What is he going to do aside from living inside a tent?
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Haruchika – Episode 3 – Drama of The Forgotten Briefcase
For our next new member, Chika and Haru finds out the reason why Maren decided to not join the Bass Club, but instead choose the Drama Club.
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Haruchika – Episode 2 – Solving the Impossible Puzzle
Apparently, the mysteries get stranger as Haruta tries to solve another one in order to find out why Miyo doesn’t want to join the band.
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Haruchika – Episode 1 – A Mysterious Message
It seems that Chika decided to play the flute for one reason only. What is it?
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Charlotte – Final Review
Back in 2010, Maeda Jun decided to create an original production by partnering up with PA Works titled Angel Beats. This show focused on a group of students in an after life fighting against god. While it was an interesting premise, it never reached full expectations because there were so many flaws that held the show back. Some viewers were disappointed that they declare it one of the worst shows PA Works made, until Glasslip (which is the worst show from PA Works thus far) came along.
Five years later, he decided to do another project again with PA Works and Aniplex called Charlotte. While I will not share my thoughts on whether or not Jun learned his lesson since I covered it in a separate opinion piece, I will share my overall thoughts about the show.
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