Garden of Sinners: A Study In Murder: The Light Novel: The Anime: The Review: Part 1: Part One
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Garden of Sinners: A Study In Murder: The Light Novel: The Anime: The Review: Part 1: Part One

This is the second Garden of Sinners movie, and the first story to take place chronologically. Given the previous title's time travel-adjacent shenanigans, I can only assume that the story is being told out of order for related reasons. Other than that, and the title being a sort of lazy Sherlock Holmes allusion, I don't know what to expect.

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Garden of Sinners E1: “Overlooking View” (part one)
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Garden of Sinners E1: “Overlooking View” (part one)

Garden of Sinners, or Kara no Kyoukai in Japanese, was the first light novel series by author Nasu Fate Moon that paved the way for the rest of the Typeverse. Rather than getting a TV anime series adaptation like Stay/Night or Zero, these got turned into a series of hour length movies. All I know about them is that they were written previously to the other Fate stuff I've seen so far, and I believe they're set earlier as well though I'm not sure about that.

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Mobile Suit Gundam: Advent of the Red Comet (E1)
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Advent of the Red Comet (E1)

Unlike most of the things I've reviewed until now, Mobile Suit Gundam is a title I have some familiarity with. I say "some" because this is one of those sprawling franchises that's been added to for decades, and from that angle I've seen a very small percentage of the whole thing. On the other hand, Gundam has also had multiple...I guess you could call them reboots? Alternate timelines? Sub-franchises? That makes it somewhat more manageable, since you have multiple self-contained blocks of it.

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Fullmetal Alchemist S1E21: “Advance of the Fool”
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Fullmetal Alchemist S1E21: “Advance of the Fool”

Mustang, Hawkeye, and Havoc are in the hospital. Havoc managed to survive that, somehow. Maybe Mustang took a moment to cauterize his lust-punctures as well before running off to save Hawkeye and Al? I'm starting to feel downright embarrassed for Lust. She didn't even manage to kill the one-step-above-canon-fodder minor character in that fight? It's almost cruel.

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Dr. Stone S1E1: “Stone World”
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Dr. Stone S1E1: “Stone World”

I have a friend who's into Dr. Stone. Multiple friends, I think. I only saw bits and pieces, but from what I gather its about a postapocalyptic future in which everyone has been turned into stone by something. A select few have unpetrified long after the fact and are trying to make their way in an empty world. Also, there's a major subplot involving chemistry? I think? Anyway, it's a very recently adapted series, having first premiered less than a year ago, and still ongoing.

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Serial Experiments Lain E2: “Girls, Layer 2”
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Serial Experiments Lain E2: “Girls, Layer 2”

We return to the psychedelic and terrifying near future world of Lain, a teenaged girl who is either being haunted by some kind of cyberspace ghost creature that claims to be a dead acquaintance of hers, or simply going insane. When we last saw her, she had just come face to face with the apparition on her way home from school. Begin.

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