It’s all happening… It’s always nice when a series finishes with its best stuff, and that’s what seems to be happening with Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love!. After delivering its comic tour de force last week, it gives is its most serious (though still funny) episode this time, and in […] Read more
That wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Let me just start out by noting that last week’s comments section was a disaster – a minefield of manga spoilers. The damage is done, but I’ll ask everyone to please give the spoilers – disguised or not – a pass. Don’t “clarify” […] Read more
That episode was a thing of beauty in every way. I don’t know why I continue to be surprised by Kamisama Hajmemashita, because it’s not as though it isn’t consistently excellent week-in and week-out. Yet somehow this series never seems to be at the forefront of my consciousness – it’s […] Read more
I wonder if Manami is a student of Greek mythology? “Come along, Father,” Icarus shouted over the sound of the wind rushing past them. “Smile, we’ve done it, we’ve escaped and we’re free.” “When my feet are back on solid ground and that island is many, many miles behind us, […] Read more
Every day is special in Kyoto. Nothing too much to say about these – it’s just a collection of some odds and ends from the last couple of weeks in Kansai. There are some shots of Chushojima, the historic sake district in South Kyoto, as well as Uji (a return […] Read more
There are no mysteries and very few surprises with Haikyuu, but that’s certainly not a bad thing. There’s no question in my mind that Haikyuu is the spiritual successor to Ookiku Furikabutte (which is actually still ongoing). They’re both series that celebrate the loveable goofiness of the teenage male to […] Read more
One step forward, one step back? After what was the best episode of the season for Durarara, I had respectably high hopes that we were looking at a resurgence of he enthusiasm the first season generated – at least the levels the second cour did, anyway. But this one left […] Read more
There are times when Diamond no Ace really tries my patience, and this is one of them. Here’s the question I’d ask a this point in the story. How bad a coach – and character – does Kataoka have to be if it takes a straw man like Ochiai to […] Read more
Does it still count as being NTR’d when the guy deserves it this much? Actually, if you want to really parse it there are a lot of reasons why what happened in this week’s Aldnoah.Zero isn’t netorare at all (not least that Inaho is at least as much the protagonist […] Read more
Tachikawa-sensei is just making it look easy now… Has there ever been a gap this wide between the best series of a season and the second-best? It’s an interesting question to which I don’t know the answer, but intuitively it seems to me as if great series are more likely […] Read more