As I said recently in another post, hope can be the cruelest thing of all… As finales go, Akatsuki no Yona’s delivered just about everything I would think any fan of the series would want. Yet there’s no denying that what most of us were hoping for was the one […] Read more
Daichi Akitarou faces an awfully big challenge next week, but if anyone is up to it, you’d imagine it would be him. Kamisama Hajimemashita finds itself in a different position to most of the best series ending this season. There’s the question of a sequel, from the almost-definitely (Yowamushi Pedal) […] Read more
Considering how great the episode was, this really sucks… I knew Nabeshima-sensei was going to do it, but it was still a swift kick in the nuts when the credits rolled. Now it’s like you DVR’d (I almost said “taped”) the Super Bowl, and have to wait a week to […] Read more
Next week had damn well better be worth the wait. Diamond no Ace – 74 As is too often the case with Daiya no A lately, we have to be patient through an awful lot of twaddle to get to the good stuff. And this time around we didn’t even […] Read more
Aldnoah.Zero is certainly true to itself, right to the end. From the very beginning this has been one of the more perplexing series of the year, seemingly countering every spark of brilliance with a complete headdesk moment. This season has definitely been the better of the two in my opinion […] Read more
Madhouse, thank heaven for you – saving anime one commercial flop at a time. It seems to me that fans of the Onepunch Man manga (and I knew they are legion) ought to be very excited about the news that Madhouse will be handling the adaptation (with Shingo Natsume directing, […] Read more
Oh, deer – that was a truly awful pun in the title. Another beautiful spring day in Kansai, so I headed down to Nara on the Kintestu Line. I’d been to Nara a couple of times before but not for a few years. Saw a few familiar sights like Todaiji, […] Read more
For me, there’s no question Tokyo Ghoul is the most vexing show of the season. What a strange series this is. There’s definitely some Kiseijuu in its genes, but the spin it puts on its tragic storyline is novel and interesting. But for every moment where it seems as if […] Read more
Travel is a lot like life – there are guidebooks, but they’re no substitute for experience. The start of the Keihan Otsu Line is about 10 minutes away from Kyoto Station by train, but it feels much farther away. And the relative lack of tourists – especially foreign – certainly […] Read more
That was certainly a thoughtful, thought-provoking turn of events. There haven’t been many anime episodes in recent memory that have left me as deeply mired in contemplation as this episode of Kiseijuu did. I certainly wasn’t expecting a neat and tidy conclusion from a moral standpoint (and indeed, this story […] Read more