The world building just never seems to end. The more I watch Blood Blockade Battlefront the more I appreciate just how accomplished a show it is. And the more I become convinced that it represents kind of a perfect storm for Nightow Yasuhiro’s material, because in BONES and Matsumoto Rie’s […] Read more
Shokugeki no Souma is like a classic rock station where every song is covered by a band you’ve never heard before. The hits just keep on coming, as Food Wars continues its quest to check off every shounen cliche in the book. You can add the fated rival and the […] Read more
One step forward, one step back, I’d say. Things took quite a predictable turn on Punchline this week, as the show seems to be following the script I more or less expected it might be – but on the bright side, it did so in about the most entertaining fashion […] Read more
Perhaps no anime episode of recent vintage has less required a blog post to be written about it. I enjoyed this episode of Ore Monogatari!! of course – I’m not a cold-blooded terrorist or anything. But if I’m honest, I think it was the very definition of “one-note”. It’s a […] Read more
Welcome to the most dangerous suburb in Japan. I don’t know where Mamiya Sakura lives, but I would strongly advise Japanese parents not to move there with their children – it’s a minefield. Seriously – freak accidents, curses, fatal illnesses… The place must have been built on an ancient burial […] Read more
Now this is what I signed up for with Daiya no A. What was that I heard Furuya saying from the dugout again? Oh, that’s right – not a fucking thing, because he could never be bothered to offer a word of encouragement to a teammate, much less when his […] Read more
“Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” There’s a larger problem with Benioff & Weiss’ take on Game of Thrones, one that goes beyond critiquing an episode like this one in its own right. I can honestly say that I found it engrossing for the most part, and that it seemed to fly by […] Read more
Sidonia is developing one of the weirdest love triangles in recent anime history. Owari no Seraph – 07 If Owari no Seraph were a one-cour show I obviously would have committed one way or the other by now, but because it’s a split-cour I’ve let this drag out longer […] Read more
That’s the problem with scouting reports right there. You have to feel a little sorry for Nishimura Kouji, Araya-kun’s kouhai at his tennis club and Maruo’s first-round opponent in the Kanagawa Junior. Araya surely meant well with his answers to Kouji’s inquiry about wha kind of player Maruo was – […] Read more
This story is indeed an intricate puzzle. Another very strong episode of Arslan this week, as the series continues to establish itself as a marathoner in a genre increasingly dominated by sprinters. It could be taken as an insult to say Arslan is plot-driven, but it applies here in a […] Read more