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Japan is know conquered territory, denied even its own name, it is simply known as Area 11.

A young boy swears that he's going to destroy Britannia.

A conventional opening follows: action shots of a large number of characters.

Opening subtitles move the timeline up to 2017.

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We open with an alt-history voiceover.

In 2010 (slightly into the future when this was released,) the Holy Empire of Britannia (shown as all of North America on the map,) declared war on Japan.

Their war Mechs, the Knighmare Frames, defeated Japan's conventional forces.

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You can watch this on Netflix, Crunchyroll, or Funimation.

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MTG thought: I don't understand the templating on Rolling Stones and Detection Tower.

Why not just remove defender/hexproof? Why this "as though they didn't have" language?

_Bored of the Rings_ has been continuously in print for over 40 years!

If you don't remember what this is about, it would be entirely thematically appropriate to watch Season One again.

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_Re: Zero - Starting life in another world_

Season 2

A Load Barrier is just a Read Barrier with good PR.

I wonder what happened to all the people who wanted to "out" Scott Alexander now that he's stated his real name publicly.

They have no drum to bang anymore. What did they move on to?

I found an essayist whose writing I'm enjoying, but his site doesn't have an RSS feed.

The _Demon Slayer_ movie is showing in theaters today.

(In America. Not all theaters.)

A triangle alignment chart plotting anime against Comfy/Horny/Violent points.

"Buy 5, get $5 off"

Sounds good, but will they all fit in my freezer?

If I had a nickel for every time Google Classroom errored out and the teacher blamed my kid for not doing the work, I'd have three nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's odd that it happened three times.

Kwalitee: When you can't measure actual quality, so you measure what you can and hope it correlates.

qa.perl.org/phalanx/kwalitee.h

The fundamental question for American institutions dealing with COVID is: how many people have to die so you can avoid looking racist?

Fundamentally, I want my TV viewing experience to give me a solid story that ends.

I want some entertainment, not a commitment.

I'd like to appreciate the way they handle Yuzuru. Initially, her gender is ambiguous. But even once it's clarified, her style remains. And when you see her in her uniform, she looks uncomfortable.

They capture her discomfort with her gender role without ever mentioning it.

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