Category Archives: Week in Review

Summer 2021 – Week 2 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’m proud to report that I was fully back on board the classics train this week, as I powered through three essential films that were all high on my to-watch list. One Piece still dominates a fair portion of the household’s viewing hours, but I’ve been making a point of setting some evenings aside, and should hopefully be back on a more reliable film schedule going forward. As for One Piece itself, we’re currently near the end of Whole Cake Island, meaning I will soon be watching One Piece’s incomplete, ongoing current arc.

That fact seems absurd to me. Just one year ago, One Piece was an implacable monument, a challenge I might get around to once I’d retired or something. I’d never have dreamed the show would evolve into something as gripping and dramatically complex as Hunter x Hunter – but here I am, emphatically wrong, happily equipped with the knowledge that there are two outstanding shonens in the world, and one of them is a legit fantasy epic. Anyway, let’s get to the movies!

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Summer 2021 – Week 1 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. According to the anime season-based schedule that I’m still pointlessly employing, this is technically the first week of the summer, which greeted us with a scorching heat wave followed by an inexplicable cold front. This was also the week that saw me getting sick as a dog for the first time since quarantine began, and thus unable to power through quite as many films as I’d have liked. I still ended up with a pretty diverse selection of features though, from films to live-action series to the inexorable procession of One Piece. I hope you’re all enjoying these meteorological harbingers of doom as best as you can, and if not, perhaps my rambling can at least distract you for a moment or two. Let’s storm on through another Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 13 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week, as you might imagine, I watched a whole bunch of One Piece. Seriously, I say that pretty often, but it was a loooot of One Piece. Dressrosa is over one hundred goddamn episodes long, and I ended up powering through the last two-thirds of it in roughly eight to ten days. And as if that weren’t enough, I also started diving into One Piece’s associated films, and at last checked out Hosoda’s utterly stunning contribution to the One Piece canon (canon as in body of work, not canon as in… you know what I mean). I did also watch one live-action film this week, but I’m warning you now that the One Piece onslaught is about to begin. Let’s break it all down in the Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 12 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Our house was back on the movie train this week, as we screened an unimpeachable classic, a dubious new release, and a vague point in between. I’ve also been watching just as much One Piece as ever, which in New World terms means I’ve broken the halfway point of Dressrosa. With a good fifty or so episodes left to go as our heroes race towards the villain, I’m guessing the other shoe is about to drop; for now, I’m happy just to marvel at Oda’s ever-evolving ability to weave multiple narratives, and dedication to ensuring all the Straw Hat crewmates feel genuinely valuable. Without further ado, let’s storm through the Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 11 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’ve got a very old-fashioned Week in Review for you today, as this week, I basically watched nothing but anime. Not airing anime, of course – that’d be too simple, and too likely to actually promote my brand among the recency-addicted anime fandom. Instead, I flew through one of the highlights of last season, SK8 the Infinity, along with a classic anime film and the requisite double-helping of One Piece. This is turning out to be an exceptional year in anime so far; I’ve been thoroughly impressed by Wonder Egg, ODDTAXI, and SK8, and I still need to follow up on shows like To Your Eternity and Megalobox: Nomad. I’ll get to those soon enough, but for now, let’s barrel through some fresh cartoon highlights in the Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 10 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. It was a productive week over at my house, as we marched through a sequence of acclaimed films, and also powered all the way through One Piece’s first post-time skip arc. The Straw Hats have been attempting to reach Fishman Island for over two hundred goddamn episodes now, having first set sail for it at the end of Enies’ Lobby before being interrupted by Thriller Bark, scattered at Sabaody, and eventually implicated in a little light treason. I can’t imagine what that wait felt like at a weekly episodic pace, but given the island’s ultimate complexity, I could believe Oda’s been slowly drafting its story for that entire span. We’re gonna go deep on that arc at the end of this article, but let’s start off with some lighter attractions, as we explore some high quality cinema. Without further ado, it’s the goddamn Week in Review.

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Spring 2021 – Week 9 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Having largely munched through the Ghibli catalog at this point, this week my house wandered through a different animation legacy, as we checked out the first and last feature films of a certain Don Bluth. Many of Bluth’s films have a profound nostalgic pull for me; his weird, frequently dark films resonated with me more strongly than Disney’s offerings, and thus I still have fond memories of The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and even A Troll in Central Park. This week I at last checked out his masterful Secret of NIMH, along with the unfortunate Titan A.E., as well as a host of other films and shows. We’ve got plenty to get through, so let’s dive right into the Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 8 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the show. I’ve got a bit of an oddball collection for you today, driven by my housemate’s tendency to essentially throw darts at the dartboard of our various streaming services. As a result, I watched a couple films that were not on and would likely never approach my radar, along with the requisite pile of One Piece, and at least one genuine classic. I’ve also been watching some actual airing anime, and have so far been thoroughly impressed by ODDTAXI – I just recently wrote up the first episode, and will have another piece coming soon. I’ll be trying to fit in Dynazenon as well over the next few weeks, but for now, let’s run down the week in films and One Piece!

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Spring 2021 – Week 7 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We have got a lot to get through today, and a bunch of it is actually anime-related this time! I finally checked out the Given movie, filled in one of the great remaining gaps in my Gainax knowledge, and even watched Netflix’s Death Note movie – along with which, of course, there was plenty of the usual horror and One Piece. Our One Piece momentum has slowed down just a tad, but we were still able to bound through the Sabaody Archipelago, while leaving more room to return to my crawl through cinema history. We’ve got a lot to break down and I assume you’re supposed to be working or studying right now, so let’s get right to the Week in Review!

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Spring 2021 – Week 6 in Review

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I ran through a diverse grab bag of films this week, including a few recent features, an old horror classic, and some genuine bullshit. I generally prefer silence when I’m not actively watching something, but one of my housemates is most relaxed when there’s some sort of background noise in the environment, so we tend to compromise with films that categorically could not command our attention: The Meg, G.I. Joe, etcetera. Along with that, I’ve also been surging ahead through One Piece, and have now blown entirely past Thriller Bark. It was a productive week and I’ve got plenty to talk about, so let’s get right to it and dive into the Week in Review!

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