Tag: recap
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Finishing Up Food Wars! The Second Plate
(Originally Posted on October 1 on Otakusphere.com) I was a bad girl and didn’t keep up with blogging Food Wars! episodically for most of the season. Part of this was because I discovered Chef’s Table on Netflix, and I was so enraptured by the most pretentious cooking documentary I had ever seen that my quota of food television was…
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Food Wars! S2 Episode 3
(Originally posted on July 21, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Well, I was wrong: I called the previous quarterfinal match for Megumi, only it was Ryo’s name that got written down with the Giant Brush of Gastronomic Victory. I really felt like the show was telegraphing that Ryo’s strong flavors were too palette-fatiguing and Megumi’s dish was…
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Food Wars!S2: Episode 2
(Originally posted on July 12, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) This episode features Battle Ramen, meaning the judges get to say “Umami!” about a million more times, just in case you didn’t get your fill of that during Battle Bento. Now I know umami is a cool flavor and all (and a point of national pride, since…
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Food Wars! S2: Episode 1
(Originally posted on July 5, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Food porn is very important in my life, mostly because regular porn does nothing for me and I still need something to be deeply ashamed of. And when it comes to food porn, you can hardly do better than Food Wars!, everyone’s favorite anime where people are figuratively…
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as A Slime, Episode 6
(Originally posted on November 8, 2018 on Otakusphere.com) This episode really surprised me. When last episode introduced the idea of Shizu as Rimuru’s “destined” person, I thought the show was probably going to take a roundabout route to get to her. Maybe Rimuru and Shizu would meet on different sides of a big conflict, multiple…
Karen L. Mead 