Fate/Zero S1E4: “Spearhead”
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Fate/Zero S1E4: “Spearhead”

I guess dealing with the Lancer and his elusive master will be making up a significant part of this episode, going by the name. And sure enough, this picks up right where we left off, with the Lancer and Arturia starting their duel while Iri keeps an eye out for the master.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S1E26: “Reunion”
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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood S1E26: “Reunion”

Here we are. The season one finale, and what a finale it has the potential to be! So many unions to be restored: Mustang and his team, Edward and Alphonse, Yao and Ninjette, and of course the brothers and Father. If they've actually met him before, of course; otherwise that last one isn't exactly a reunion. But anyway, midpoint of the series, and a major change of the status quo pretty much unavoidable.

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Garden of Sinners 4: “The Hollow Shrine”
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Garden of Sinners 4: “The Hollow Shrine”

It's time for the last Kara no Kyoukai/Garden of Sinners movie currently in queue. I don't have many expectations, either positive or negative, at this point. "Overlooking View" was fun. "A Study In Murder I" was so-so. "Remaining Sense of Pain" was awful. So, this could really be anywhere in terms of quality, and most of these films seem to be episodic enough to stand on their own.

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Serial Experiments Lain E3: “Psyche”
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Serial Experiments Lain E3: “Psyche”

Last time on Serial Experiments Lane, our heroine or something acting through her diffused a situation with a mad shooter by making him turn the weapon on himself. This episode starts with the police arriving in force at Club Cyberia, where the event took place. Lain's friend helps her out of the club; Lain herself still has a zombie-like expression, and sees like she'd just be standing in place and staring at the wall if she wasn't being walked.

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Street Sharks S1E1: “Shark Bait”
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Street Sharks S1E1: “Shark Bait”

Perhaps you think that the modern videogame and ebook industries have issues with imitators and copycats running unchecked. If so then you must have been born after the early 1990's, because they have nothing on the toy-driven children's cartoons of the eighties and nineties.

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