Oh, Valvrave – promise me you’ll never stop being you… Anime’s greatest whack-job is back, and the good news is that nothing has changed – Kakumeiki Valvrave can still dish out the guano and make it taste like filet mignon better than anything else on the air. In some ways […] Read more
It’s nice when a series turns out to be everything you expected – at least when you expected it to be as good as I did with Golden Time. Please don’t mistake my one-day delay in posting as an indication of any lack of regard for Golden Time – the […] Read more
Koyama Rikiya seems to be making a habit of playing weird-looking characters lately. The other half of the NoitaminA block weighs in with Galilei Donna, which as I said earlier in my Samurai Flamenco post seems like a quite intentional complement to that series in order to appeal to a […] Read more
And so the madness continues. I wouldn’t be anywhere else, for now at least. You have to hand it to Okada Mari – she really is the straw that stirs the drink. There are few – maybe no – writers in anime today who can equal her ability to factionalize, […] Read more
Welcome back to full-time work, NoitaminA. OP: “Just one life” by SPYAIR It seems pretty clear that Fuji TV producer Kouji Yamamoto is aiming for two distinct demographics with NoitaminA’s return to a full schedule this season. I haven’t watched Galilei Donna as of yet, but based on the premiere […] Read more
Any thought that Kill la Kill would offer a change-of-pace second serve can safely be dismissed. OP: “Sirius (シリウス)” by Eir Aoi So yeah, that whole thing about exploring character development and relationship drama? Forget it for one more week at least – episode two was every bit as ridiculous […] Read more
I don’t know from whence Kyousogiga sprang forth, but I’m sure glad it’s here. So far, this anime season has been pretty close to what I thought it might be. Going in it looked like it would be very strong for quantity, but perhaps not quality, and after the first […] Read more
No, I’m not typing out that whole damn name. NouKome – 01 I wasn’t originally planning to do a post on this series, but the reactions to it were amusing enough that I figured I might as well give it a watch. It’s certainly one of the weirdest series of […] Read more
There are certainly times when predictability isn’t such a bad thing. I keep a notepad next to my computer on which I scribble down notes from the various anime I watch and plan to blog. Half-an-hour ago, the two most recent entries were exactly the same although they were about […] Read more
So that’s one “maybe” and one “no”. Tokyo Ravens – 01 Tokyo Ravens was solidly in the middle of my expectations range. It’s a story about Onmyoudo, which I like, but it’s a LN adaptation from a studio without a long list of accomplishments. Pretty good but not great staff […] Read more