Sometimes we find gems where we least expect them. This is what I said way back in October, when I blogged the premiere of this series: “This might be that golden unicorn – a high school romance that avoids getting so bogged down in the usual bullshit that it offers […] Read more
Boy, does that suck the life out of you. The “choose your own adventure book for fetishes” is back for it’s Winter incarnation. Maybe it was because I went on the first day this time (for 83 and 84 I never did) but the crowds were even more insane last […] Read more
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of seeing a TV anime you love on the big screen. I headed down to Shinjuku tonight to check out Hunter X Hunter: The Last Mission. I’m not going to do a detailed review until I’ve seen the subbed version, for a couple of […] Read more
“The Time of the Doctor” It’s not every year that the regeneration episode of a popular Doctor – and one who’s used up all his regenerations at that – would take a back seat to anything in the Doctor Who world. But so it is with “Time of the Doctor”, […] Read more
Thanks for the memories, Kyousougiga. There hasn’t been much that’s orthodox about the way Kyousougiga has been structured. It started with an ONA, then added five short web episodes, and then more than a year later finally came the TV series. Putting a travelogue episode in the middle and a […] Read more
Having left themselves so much to do in 22 minutes, it really couldn’t have been expected that Sunrise would ace the final. But I’d certainly give them a passing grade. Where does one begin to go in describing that episode? I can’t imagine the bulk of the viewership is going […] Read more
As milestones go, it’s not a bad one. While I was away LiA reached a pretty significant number – four million visitors. I was kind of hoping it would happen on New Year’s Day but hey, earlier is definitely better than later. I know that’s a good day for duckdynasty.com, […] Read more
The headline: Kotoha put some panties back on. Backlog sucks, but that’s traveling for you. Yozakura Quartet is back in the game in subbed form and I’ll be doing a longer post after the final ep next week, but I don’t have much time to dedicate to this one. I […] Read more
Well, that was certainly eventful. If Golden Time’s break arrived at the perfect time for me, I can’t say the same for Nagi no Asukara. Not only is the series firing on all cylinders and more involving than ever, but that was a hell of a cliffhanger to cap off […] Read more
Chalk one up for patience. Zenkouji is not a tremendously well-known temple on the tourist circuit, but to the Japanese it’s among the two or three most important religious sites in the country. This is still a true pilgrimage temple to this very day – to visit it’s magnificent main […] Read more