It’s a bit tough on me as a blogger, but by Summer’s usually low standards this season looks quite good so far. After what can only be called a fairly disappointing Spring, Summer 2013 has a chance to make up some of the lost ground. Spring tends to be anime’s […] Read more
Gatchaman Crowds is a real MESS, but as long as it remains an interesting mess I’m going to stick around. We pretty much only get one Nakamura Kenji series a year, and Gatchaman Crowds is only the second anime Oono Toshiya has ever written. So things would have to be […] Read more
The best-looking anime episode of the season so far comes from DEEN, and I’m not nearly so surprised about that as you might think. It’s pretty rare for me to lead with the visuals when blogging an anime episode, but they were really off the charts on Rozen Maiden this […] Read more
Who wants pizza? Just for fun, I imagined what the audience reaction would have been like if there’d been an “Al and Ed make pizza” episode of Fullmetal Alchemist, say, right in the middle of the Ishbal storyline. About the closest think I can imagine would be the way the […] Read more
Knowing how this storyline is probably going to end isn’t making things any less painful to watch. Zi Xia may be one of the characters that Kingdom invented for dramatic purposes – if she exists historically I’ve found no trace of her – but she’s fulfilling her role in the […] Read more
News is here. No word on length that I see, but based on what the gamers say I’m assuming two cours. I probably don’t have to say this but please, no spoilers in the comments! Read more
Watamote is quite adept at walking on tightropes, and so far there hasn’t been a major slip. Without any question, this is a series that plays with your emotions in a big way. It makes you laugh, then feel bad about laughing, the gasp and groan and laugh again. There’s […] Read more
More of the same from Mushibugyou this week. And thank goodness for that. Koyama Riki as a stuffed usagi and Miki Shinichiro as a dragonfly in the same week? Verily, our seiyuu cup runneth over. Miki-sama hadn’t been as active in the last few years, but happily he’s had a […] Read more
Say what you will about Uchouten Kazoku, but it’s a show that’s perfectly comfortable in its own skin. This is a strange series to say the least. It’s not particularly sinister or disturbing, but it seems to have no interest in squeezing itself into any boxes we might be familiar […] Read more
If there’s any show this season that can be counted on to deliver what it promises, Blood Lad is the one. The formula for this series is astonishingly simple, really. Take characters that are fun to watch and put them in amusing situations. Make it colorful, with witty visuals and […] Read more