Whatever Aikawa and Mizushima are taking, I hope they leave some for me. I just don’t know what to do with Concrete Revolutio. I mean, I want to write about it but I’m not sure where to start. It’s such an unholy mess of jumbled-up genres and tropes that trying […] Read more
The preliminaries may have ended in the previous chapter, but it sort of feels like they’re still going on. As we approach three years since the second season of Chihayafuru premiered, it may be time to accept the reality that we’re not likely to get a third. With each passing […] Read more
Volleyball may be a team sport, but it’s still played by individuals. Watching this episode of Haikyuu, I was reminded of a quote by the great Brazilian striker Romario: “Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.” Be it football or not, the myth of the selfish striker is not […] Read more
Aragoto is pretty much everything you want a sequel to be. Make no mistake, Norogami Aragoto is really good. And it’s good in a myriad of ways – sure, it’s vastly entertaining and that’s ultimately the bottom line. But it also does a wonderful job of expanding the Noragami mythology […] Read more
Well, raise your hand if you didn’t know how that was going to turn out. While it was always pretty obvious how the immediate crisis in this arc would ultimately be resolved, Ushio and Tora still did a pretty great job (as usual) getting us there. It does get a […] Read more
Fall 2015 is notably light on surprises, for better and for worse. I had a pretty good idea of what shows figured to be good coming into the season – and judging by the poll, so did you. I haven’t been taken aback by much of anything so far this […] Read more
The further Subete ga F ni Naru goes down the rabbit hole, the better I like it. The more anime I watch – especially given the broader creative trends in the medium – the more I realize that strangeness is a good thing in and of itself. That’s not to […] Read more
For Eijun fans, this week’s Diamond no Ace is all about the long game… Read more
Things settle down with a more typical Haikyuu episode this week. Read more
When you get down to it, this series is some pretty dark stuff. If nothing else (and in truth, there actually is a lot else) Osomatsu-san is making me very curious about the original – it can’t be this out there, can it? This show is a black comedy to […] Read more