Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week saw me finally breaking ground on the current anime season, as I screened the first two episodes of MyGO followup Ave Mujica in quick succession. While the show is certainly more broad and melodramatic than its predecessor, it’s also extraordinarily entertaining, showing that MyGO’s writer/director team are just as confident with this sort of operatic theater as they are with MyGO’s quieter pleasures. We’ve also been munching through the Ramayan, and have at this point reached the big action-adventure core of the series, when Ram’s wife Sita is stolen and he must square off with the demons who’ve claimed her. It’s a pleasure as always to see such a formative, archetype-defining text in motion, and it’s serving as a fine compliment to our Armored Trooper Votoms excursions. But let’s forget all that business, for today I bring you a selection of fresh films, plucked directly from my towering film review buffer. Let’s break ‘em down!

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