Chainsaw Man #1: “Dog & Chainsaw”
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Chainsaw Man #1: “Dog & Chainsaw”

There really is no avant-garde like Japanese avant-garde, is there? I'm not sure if this is funny or exciting or ironic or...what. It makes me want to read more, at least for the time being, but I can't really put my finger on why it makes me want to read more.

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DieselDust: “Pilot”
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DieselDust: “Pilot”

So, if you'd believe it, I was actually asked by two different people to compare the RWBY pilot to the pilots of two other low-budget web originals. JelloApocalypse's Epithet Erased was one of them. The other, which I'm now getting to, is DieselDust, by Team FourStar. Unlike JA, I'm not familiar with TFS. From the look of things, they mostly do podcasts about media analysis, so this is a case of critics turning creator. Well, I am a little biased in their favor just because of that, I have to admit.~

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March Comes In Like A Lion E5: Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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March Comes In Like A Lion E5: Over The Cuckoo's Nest

The fifth episode of this commission, "June Comes In Like a Cuckoo," is also the last. I'm not really expecting anything like closure or synthesis of the preceding story arcs, as this doesn't seem like a show that's about tying things together into a "main" plot. Either way, my thoughts on the series (or at least, what I've seen of it) will come at the end.

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