3 Episode Rule – Days of Urashimasakatasen

I’m making a conscious effort to watch as much as I can this season, within reason. And a bitesized anime with a five minute run length might seem perfect for my case here. Getting a whole article out of just 15 minutes investment. But sometimes, even those 15 minutes are time I could be using to do something else. Like waiting in a game queue…

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3 Episode Rule – Ahiru No Sora (Sky of the Duck)

Yeah, I’m doing this again. My endgame kind of needs work though as I never really followed up what I felt about the Summer season by the time it was over. I’ll have to try and remedy that this season, in ten weeks time. Anyway, this is the first in a series of posts in which I use the general rule of thumb in that you can generally tell if a series is worth watching or not within the first three episodes.

I’m trying to broaden my pallet a little by giving a chance to the kind of shows I normally don’t care about; and this show is one that is way out of my wheelhouse. Shiru No Sora is a sports anime, one about basketball. So, not only is it a genre I have never really found myself drawn to in the past, it’s also focusing on a sport that I also have no real interest in. Way to throw myself in the deep end.

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3 Episode Rule – Fire Force

After the tragic fire at a studio building of Kyoto Animation, the Fire Force anime was put on hold for a few weeks for the sake of taste and respect. After some minor edits to episode 3, the anime returned and I’ll talk about it in what is probably going to be the last entry in this season’s 3 episode rule.

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