Cue the endgame. As I type this, the clock is ticking down towards what should be one of the best matches men’s tennis has seen in years – Djokovic and Federer in the U.S. Open final. These two have clearly been the best players not just this tournament but this […] Read more
Well, I confess I didn’t see that coming. Working!!! may be the anime that breaks (or at least bends) all the rules when it comes to relationships, but it’s still an anime – so you didn’t expect things to fall into place all that easily, did you? Heck, one might […] Read more
It’s fitting for a series with two sets of twins to have a double episode. Shows like Joukamachi no Dandelion come along every once in a while – forever hovering on the precipice between being subsumed by cliche and satirizing it. Sometimes it’s quite intentional (Outbreak Company is one example), […] Read more
That must have been some dream… Any week when you get Nakamura Yuiichi and especially Miki Shinichirou back when you figured they were gone for good is a nice episode. But this week’s Ushio & Tora was a good effort all the way around, using a really clever way to […] Read more
Sometimes it takes a little spirit possession to let our true natures show themselves. A funny thing happened in the world of Kyoukai no Rinne this week. Weekly Shounen Sunday announced that Rinne will have an “important announcement” in the next issue (yes, an announcement of an announcement – a […] Read more
You knew it had to be coming sooner or later… Here’s my basic feeling after this episode of Ore Monogatari. It was inevitable that we get an episode focused on a love rival for Takeo sooner or later. It was an episode built around the least interesting relationship amongst the […] Read more
She still isn’t my favorite character, but Mikan sure is a lot more fun when she’s the one getting trolled… Read more
Studios are pretty important when it comes to anime, so I thought I’d take some time to talk about a few of them. First up is Manglobe – underappreciated, often misunderstood, but almost never less than interesting. Read more
Why isn’t the opposite of low-key “high-key”, anyway? I wonder about stuff like that… Something felt just a bit off to me about this episode of Akagami no Shirayukihime. I find myself starting to notice the series is seemingly clueless about to handle certain characters (Kiki and Ryuu principally) whose […] Read more
This is not the first time in Diamond no Ace that I’ve wanted to shout “Stop bunting, you idiot!” at Kataoka. And if the series continues in anime form (as I strongly suspect it will at some point) I very much doubt it will be the last. Read more