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Osomatsu-san – 09
As Christopher Fry once said, comedy is an escape – not from truth, but from despair. In my world, there are few loftier words of praise for any comedy than “fearless”. It’s pretty damn close to a requirement for a comedy to be considered great in my book, and pretty […] Read more
Diamond no Ace Season 2 – 35
Hell has indeed frozen over. Time to put the ugliness of last week’s inexplicable ending behind us, because there are preliminaries to settle before we can get down to the main event of the cour – and we sure as hell weren’t getting an explanation from this week’s episode. There […] Read more
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans – 09
Meat and cookies don’t always stand for meat and cookies. It’s always interesting to see the response to episodes of a Gundam series in the usual places where people vote on such things (you’re familiar with these popular sites, I’m sure) especially a Gundam show like this one with its […] Read more
Concrete Revolutio – 09
That was a fitting episode for a series with as elastic a concept of time as this one. Concrete Revolutio continues to be a survey course in paranormal phenomena and Japanese history. It remains as superficially confusing as ever but while it may be my imagination, I can almost convince […] Read more
One Punch Man – 09
What a waste of a great voice actor… It strikes me, not for the first time, that there’s a fundamental contradiction at the heart of One Punch Man. Every time the protagonist gets into a fight it’s an anti-climax, which would normally be a huge narrative problem – but that […] Read more
Haikyuu!! Season 2 – 09
Five Hinatas? Talk about a genki overdose. There are episodes of Haikyuu that, while perfectly entertaining and well-executed, are pretty tough to blog about. And this was one of those episodes. I’ve noted this before – and not only about Haikyuu – that sometimes a show does such a good […] Read more
Noragami Aragoto – 09
Noragami is a series that never hesitates to stare into the heart of darkness, literally or figuratively. In a way it feels like this arc (does it have a name?) of Noragami Aragoto has sort of crept up on me. The Bishamon arc was a big story, no question about […] Read more
Ushio to Tora – 22
And here I thought Ging Freecs was a bad dad… Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all of LiA’s readers in America. But if you were looking for a turkey, you were looking in the wrong place with Ushio & Tora – as usual this week’s episode was on-point, seeming to fly […] Read more
Noragami Aragoto – OAD 1
Noragami knows what it wants out of an OVA, and always delivers it. As with the first season, “Aragoto” brings with it two OADs. And as with the first season, they’re both canon material (more or less – this one is from the spinoff manga Noragami Shuuishii – “Stray Stories”) […] Read more