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This micro-anime* has no legitimate streaming source that I have been able to locate.

Your friendly neighborhood pirates will hook you up though.

It also looks like someone uploaded it to YouTube. (No promises.)

* micro: the episodes are 5 minutes long.

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Get a UX person to walk through all this stuff and fix it, please.

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The alleged iPhone doesn't show up in my "orders", so this probably is a scam. But there's no "suspicious orders" page for me to check that on, which is why the scam works in the first place.

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The closest I can get is "devices", which shows five Android devices. Which one is my phone? Which is my tablet? Which is my old phone? No way to tell. No way to ask a device which name it is.

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Once I go through the email author dance, it says 34 apps are signed in to my Amazon account, with only a button to sign-out everything.

No way to see what apps where.

Skipping that, I try to find a list of authorized "apps" for my account, but there's no such thing.

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On account/login and security, there's a "notice suspicious activity" button, but it's right next to password. Why are these together?

That sends an email, but the label on what is coming is super confusing. It includes the word "Samsung". Why?

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Hey @AmazonHelp, your stuff is super confusing:

I got a call saying someone bought an iPhone with my Amazon account. This is probably a scam, but it's better to check.

So I go to your site. There's a popup that looks like an alert, but it dissapears.

Infohazard warning:

I regret to inform you that the opening song is an earworm that is still stuck in my head!

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I wish to register a complaint with the internet:

There are at least 20 variants of the "God has spoken" moment in this show, and the only sign of it I could find was this one:

This should be a standard reaction image by now. What are you people even doing?

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My opening snark ("Well, we don't know Him that well. We only work for Him.") Is from _Time Bandits_, which is almost, but not entirety, unlike this show.

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Shimoda give us a classic technique of injecting a character who doesn't understand, so he can ask questions of the experts, who can explain to him, and hence, to the audience.

Don't knock the trick, they even use it in the Bible.

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Depending on your source, the characters either have their Japanese names, or are named after the planets: Venus/Mars/Saturn, etc.

I'm too lazy to confirm it, but I suspect the correspondence is direct.

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There's a running gag about replacing school with anime. This will fit right into the Zoology slot. Maybe watch _Cells at Work_ along with it to widen out your biology?

(This is a meme, not a real recommendation.)

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If it sounds like a fun premise, you'll enjoy it.

It does remind me, vaguely of the edutainment cartoons that run on PBS. I wonder if it had a lot of young viewers in Japan, or if it was on at anime o'clock, so they couldn't actually watch it.

(Does broadcast time still exist?)

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So, that's the show.

What's my takeaway?

It's fine. Light entertainment with nothing big ever really on the line. Good for a light interlude or a brief laugh.

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Each of them take a separate requirement and build their own creature to fulfill it.

Tsuchiya opts out: because, as they say, the Camel is a Horse that was designed by committee.

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A wild OVA appears!

Kanamori accidentally designs the Kiwi while trying to make the last bird-like bird possible.

The team get an impossible request:a creature that doesn't sink, is immune to extremes of heat an cold, requires very little water, and can stand on painful ground.

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