Category Archives: Anime Appraisals

.hack//Roots 18: the altar of HARD GAY

Haseo was doing so well in rehab that he’d even started to get over Ovan- but then Taihaku showed up. The kind of experienced older man that Haseo was hoping for, Taihaku soon leads him down the dark path after … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 17: HARD GAY and lost kitchen knives

That Ovan, he’s broken a string of hearts- first Naobi/Yata, then Shino and Haseo, and now he’s fooling around with Tri-Edge. Can anyone resist the charms of a man who can not only cook, but can prepare meals any time, … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 16: Haseo’s rehab

This week, Haseo finally realises that he can no longer deny his drug problem, but can his new counsellors Tabby and Phyllo help him on the road to recovery? Tabby tells Kuhn that she must take a week off performing … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 15: who needs to watch anime anymore?

Through fourteen episodes of suffering, it has come to my attention that .hack//Roots isn’t much good, or, to be brutally honest, it is a tedious pile of crap. In that vein, I have upheld my resolution not to watch any … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 14: the end of the line

Don’t be too concerned about the tone of this rant, I will be posting screencap-based parodies of episodes 15+ from tomorrow. So, the time has finally come; I’ve had enough, I’m throwing in the towel. No, I’m not about to … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 13: Watching Paint Dry

The weeks come and go, but Roots remains a static, never changing universe- at least until today, when something happened. That’s not to say that what happened was particularly interesting and unexpected, in fact, it’s what we’d all been expecting … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 12: Even less happened than usual

For the last few weeks, I’ve tried to spice up the dull monotony of .hack//Roots by resorting to cooking and band parodies, but this time around only a more ‘classic’ rant format will do the episode justice. Yes, the unthinkable … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 11: The music industry:r2 crumbles

Phyllo A powerful force at the heart of the music industry, Phyllo dispenses advice to those wise enough to seek him out (i.e. anyone crossing a bridge in The World:r2’s root town). Gourd consults Phyllo about his future in the … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 10: Guitar strings of destiny

The band arc begins The cooking competition is over, but Ovan’s troubles are only just beginning. Once he and Naobi played in a band together, but now they have gone their separate ways and formed their own groups. Who will … Continue reading

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.hack//Roots 9: Something happened in this episode

Every week, I swear that I’ve written all I need to on Roots; that next week I won’t have anything more to say, and yet every week, I cannot help myself, even if it means having over 20 documents of … Continue reading

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