Just wait till your father gets home… It’s funny, the things that run through our minds when watching anime. Last week I said Hatanaka Tasuku put me in mind of a cross between Satoshi Hino and Kakihara Tetsuya, but through all this episode I kept hearing Miyu Irino (that’s one […] Read more
Gangsta as a series is a whole lot like Nicolas Brown’s voice. I really like Gangsta, for a whole myriad of reasons. It’s yet another throwback series, very much a relic of what anime was like 15 years ago (and I’m old enough to remember). I’ve said this is a […] Read more
To borrow a thoroughly overused phrase: WTF did I just watch? I have pretty much no idea how to take this episode of Game of Laplace, which was surely one of the oddest 22 minutes of anime I’ve seen in a very long time. There are a lot of puzzling […] Read more
A VRMMORPG? What could possibly go wrong? Himouto! Umari-chan – 01 I can sum up my reasons for giving this series a shot in two words: Oota Masahiko. And that’s no exaggeration. I can truthfully say there’s nothing else in the premise that would have made me give Himouto! Umaru-chan […] Read more
That was a hug – no take-backs. OP2: “Ura no Ura” (裏の裏; The back of the back) by Passepied Spring’s most underrated series and funniest comedy rolls into its second cour with a new OP and ED, a shift in direction, but the same spot-on comedy. There wasn’t a series […] Read more
Better late than never, I suppose. I think I should probably explain why I’m taking the counter-intuitive step of covering the second Hoozuki no Reitetsu OVA before the first. The reason is the obvious one – somebody subbed this one first. You wouldn’t think one of the top-selling shows of […] Read more
Ore Monogatari has a remarkable ability to make the strangest things emotionally resonant. Here’s a serious question: if the main pairing in a romantic comedy is the weakest part of the series, is that a weakness or a strength? In a vacuum, I suppose I would reluctantly have to answer […] Read more
That put a big smile on my face. Here’s another of the shows on my sleeper list headed into the season – the B-list, at least. And this time around I’m very happy, because based on one episode it feels like the positive inkling I had going in was justified. […] Read more
Expectations are funny things. The giant ball of suck that is Funimation finally decided to release Joukamachi no Dandelion, almost a week after it aired in Japan. I’m not sure just when Funi decided its calling was to make the lives of English-speaking anime fans generally and bloggers especially a […] Read more
To thine own baka be true. It occurs to me in watching the first inning of the Seidou-Ugumori clash play out that Diamond no Ace is really the story of two idiots. But crucially, they’re very different kinds of idiots – and I think the whole question of the “ace” […] Read more