• Two of the shows I was reviewing, Free! Eternal Summer and Nobunaga Concerto ended this week. Here’s what I thought of their finales.

• Why we don’t need “objective” anime criticism. Whose recommendations do we trust the most for shows? Our flawed, opinionated friends’. Serdar lays out why it’s best to make our prejudices known when we write reviews.

• At the Tokyo Game Show, women can wait in line to be aggressively hit on. It’s all part of a dating fantasy scenario set up by companies to sell them games.

• Looks like Free! Eternal Summer isn’t quite over yet. There’ll be an unaired episode on the Blu-ray release.

• OMOCAT, whom I interviewed earlier this week, will be teaming up with Crunchyroll for a collaboration this winter. Doesn’t say if it’ll be a new clothing line or something else.

• Higurashi: When They Cry is terrifying, whether as a visual novel or an anime. Brian Ruh, writing for media journal Refractory, explores what makes this transmedia horror story so enduring in any form.

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