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
Change is inescapable everywhere you look this week, if you’re a Hunter X Hunter fan. It certainly feels strange, doing a Hunter X Hunter post on a Wednesday afternoon. I’ll get used to it, of course, but after two years of Sundays my entire perception of the series feels a […] Read more
Gundam may just have topped everyone in the race to be retro. Non Non Biyori – 01 Of all the sleepers on my Fall list, this might have been the deepest. At least, it’s the show that seemed to dovetail least with my tastes in anime. It was strictly a […] Read more
Enter the vice squad… Anyone who’s stuck with Kingdom from the beginning had to be a bit unnerved by some of the battle sequences this week. They were, in a word, fugly – a clear reminder of some of the shockingly bad CGI that was the scourge of the first […] Read more