The summer season’s top tier is already weighing in – now the sleepers start to make their case. I had fairly high hopes for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun heading into the season. There was some material reason to be optimistic – a very good cast, a decent staff, a pretty well […] Read more
Tennis has its own field of dreams, of course. You’ll have to forgive me, Maruo-kun, if my tennis attention is divided today. Specifically, much of it is on that hallowed hall in the OP, where the greatest player of all time is set to try and win his 8th Wimbledon […] Read more
Daiya no A is a series that rally knows how to stick to the basics. Diamond no Ace is a bit of a time-crunch casualty this week, given that Sunday (my time) was already the craziest day of the season and most of its shows carried over, and now we […] Read more
Another heavy hitter steps up to the plate… OP: “Rashisa (らしさ)” by SUPER BEAVER This is obviously a critical long weekend for the Summer 2014 anime season, with several of the series I was placing my highest expectations in making their debuts. That’s a nervous time – while schedules usually […] Read more
If the role of a premiere is to capture your attention, this one certainly did the trick. There were a number of interesting questions going into the premiere of Aldnoah.Zero. Most obviously, what would be the extent of Urobuchi Gen’s involvement? Many Gen series (like Madoka Magica) featured him writing […] Read more
It’s all about having Tokyo in the title. Thanks to everyone for a magnificent turnout – participation was up 40% from the Spring Preview Poll, and the largest ever for a season preview poll. As for the results, I don’t see any huge shockers here – Zankyou no Terror and […] Read more
Yup, that was Sailor Moon all right. Rarely have I felt so unqualified to post on an anime as I do about Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal. I have nothing against the franchise by any means – in fact I bear a certain fondness for it given that it was created […] Read more
Here’s a couple of premieres from substantially farther down the expectations list. Rail Wars! – 01 It’s fair to say I didn’t come into Rail Wars! with huge expectations, but as someone who loves trains and generally dislikes privatization, the idea of a series where JR was still government-owned and […] Read more
Rarely will you see an anime which so obviously displays its pedigree as Glasslip does. OP: “Natsu no Hi to Kimi no Koe (夏の日と君の声)” by ChouCho I run a certain risk with blogging Glasslip, because my impressions after the first episode so perfectly match my expectations going into it that […] Read more
OK, first sigh of relief of the season. It isn’t that often that my anime season starts off with one of the very best hopes for an exceptional series (I did actually watch the Bakumatsu Rock premiere first, but didn’t even make it all the way to the end) but […] Read more