Just tell me you didn’t want to see Hisoka and Ging duke it out. There’s a definite sense that the real story of Ushio & Tora kicked off this week. The last two episodes have been fantastic, but largely seem purposed to set the mood and establish the mythology. The […] Read more
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a very partial list of sports anime I’m partial to. And special thanks to Elianthos for reminding me that this would be a good topic to discuss! Read more
Japan sure has some dumb urban legends. Well, there’s another character paired off that isn’t the one we (I at the very least) want to see paired off. Two of them (well – that’s a pair) in fact – Kurihara Osamu and Yamazaki Nanako. I’ve tended to like the episodes […] Read more
Hell hath no fury like an idiot scorned. Jumonji gets center-stage this week, which means his tunnel-visioned worldview gets to take Kyoukai no Rinne into some darkly comic places. Ageha’s arrival on the scene has liberated Tsubasa-kun from the onus of being the series’s biggest baka, but make no mistake, […] Read more
All about sports anime, as seen by Yours truly. More to come tomorrow… Read more
Is the the calm before the storm? Perhaps more accurately, the mild storm before the hurricane, because things were pretty lively in these two chapters of Chihayafuru. But it still felt very preliminary, and there’s a real sense that Suetsugu-sensei is setting up something bigger on the horizon. The most […] Read more
Still some room on that bubble. A brief post here, because I found this episode of Overlord to be kind of boring. It felt like by far the most generic MMORPG-Anime ep yet, an action episode in a series with mediocre animation and a clear-cut good vs. evil faceoff in […] Read more
Another one edges towards the edge of the bubble – but which way? Check out my MAL post (in a new tab!) to find out. And don’t forget to leave your comments right here! Read more
I’ve never actually had one, but watching Furuya pitch for eight innings seems to me the anime equivalent of a colonoscopy. More insight like that can be found in this week’s Diamond no Ace post on MAL. Read more
Slide on over, Gangsta and UshiTora – make room on that top shelf for one more. Here’s a question: in fiction is it enough to create nice, likeable people that make you want to spend time with them, or do you need to do more? I suspect different people would […] Read more