There’s no doubt where the cream of this season’s crop lies, but it is an unusual one in one sense at least. Kiseijuu is great again this week, for the record, though that should come as no surprise to anyone. There’s no question that it and Akatsuki no Yona are […] Read more
Poor Hak… I haven’t quite figured out if Yona landed on her head after that fall, or maybe it would have been better if she had. In any event it’s pretty clear that when it comes to reading signals she’s several cards shy of a full deck yet, in true […] Read more
Road racing can be a scary sport indeed, but this is getting ridiculous… What an interesting sequence of role reversals and genre-bending we have going on here. The third day of the inter-high has turned into a semi-satirical take on horror films (which makes the omake deliciously appropriate, and the […] Read more
Yes, that is a Gugure! Kokkuri-san label. A commitment at last? So, nano desu. I was worried that the comedy well was going to run dry with this series, but it seems a pretty safe bet now that’s not going to happen – we’re already over halfway through and if […] Read more
It’s a good think Archer is a better shot than he is a liar. As ever Fate/stay night follows up an action-packed episode with a mostly talky one, but this was the best of its type since UBW began this run. There were a couple of conversations here that rose […] Read more
I can’t really add a whole lot to that. Mushishi really is quite unlike any other anime out there, probably ever. There just isn’t another series that sets about achieving what this one does – it isn’t only a question of execution, but intent. It almost seems as if Mushishi […] Read more
It’s ironic, but I never appreciate Gen Urobuchi so much as when he’s not around to remind me of his annoying habits. First things first: Meguro Kouro, Haruka is a perfectly enjoyable double-episode of Suisei no Gargantia (it’s the first of a two-part OVA, with the second arriving in May). […] Read more
Can a character like Cayenne be redeemed even this late in the game? Sorry, I’m not buying it. This was a strange sort of episode for Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen, perhaps most acutely for the fact that I’m not sure how the audience was supposed to interpret it. There was a […] Read more
This episode of Parasyte was a level-up in every way. Periodically you get an anime episode that simply gets everything right, from the first frame to the last. Some are more ambitious than others but a perfectly executed ep is a unicorn indeed, and something to be marvelled at and […] Read more
That went just about as I expected, and about that I have no complaints. If there was ever a show that was custom-built to translate well to an OVA, it’s Gokukoku no Brynhildr. Most OVAs are more irreverent versions of the parent series, and Brynhildr was a screwball comedy passing […] Read more