Ah, Watamote – why must you take me on this emotional thrill ride every week? In all my years of watching anime, there’s never been anything that strikes me as much similar to Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!. There have been plenty of black […] Read more
An eyecatch in the middle of the episode? How conventional… Kingdom 2 – 13 What’s really striking in watching the last few episodes of Kingdom is just what a huge gap exists between Xin and both his 300-man General rivals. For all their stylistic and personality differences – and they […] Read more
In a funny way, I found this episode more melancholy than the last. Uchouten Kazoku is the sort of series that leaves a great deal unspoken. It’s fitting in that this is very much a show where two worlds exist side-by-side, wholly interdependent yet seemingly also independent of each other […] Read more
Yah! There’s just no two ways about it – Blood Lad is good. Really good. It connects all the dots: it’s funny, the plot is clever and coherent, the world-building excellent. It’s blessed with a superb cast, directed with wit and creativity and of late, even the animation has been […] Read more
It’s certainly huge news when the most commercially successful anime director ever – by far – announces he’s retiring from directing feature films. This is a day we’ve known was coming for a while, but it’s still sad to see Miazaki Hayao announce he’s retiring from directing features. It’s early […] Read more
I’m still nowhere close to figuring this show out. If you have a pet cat that refuses to bark, and you try training for week after week and all it does is “meow”, is that the cat’s fault? At this point I’ve pretty much decided it’s pointless to try and […] Read more
Some semblance of order has been restored to my universe – H x H is back. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, though I’m not certain that would be possible in this case. There’s no denying it was a good reminder of just how much of a grip […] Read more
This is the sort of episode that Araki Tetsurou was born to direct. Attack on Titan edged out Space Brothers in the recap derby this week, coming in about 3:10. It’s irritating as hell, but at least you can see what they were saving the budget for. After a couple […] Read more
Superman may just have met his Kryptonite. Unfortunately, Space Brothers seems to be getting shorter. Between the increasingly long recaps at the beginning (3 minutes this week) and “Racist Cartoon Theater” at the end, we’re down almost five minutes per episode on actual material – which is quite a lot […] Read more
Tokyo – and Japan – never stop surprising me. One of the things I love about living here is that I’m always stumbling on something incredibly cool, be it a tiny Inari Shrine in my neighborhood or a huge temple complex on a busy commercial street that’s not mentioned in […] Read more