In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld, “It’s so nice when it happens good.” OP: “May I Help You? (めいあいへるぷゆー?)” by Lucy Yamagami (Ai Kayano), Saya Miyoshi (Mai Nakahara), Megumi Chihaya (Aki Toyosaki) Yesterday I found a premiere I actually hated, so it was especially rewarding to find one today […] Read more
Tamayura really ought to come with either a warning label or an insulin shot. Brother’s Conflict – 01 I confess I didn’t make it through the premiere of Brother’s Conflict. It only took me about three minutes to figure out that this was not working for me in any way, […] Read more
Let the insanity begin – Free! at last. OP: “Rage on” by OLDCODEX I can’t imagine the content of the first episode of Free! would surprise too many viewers, but there’s still an awful lot to talk about. I think a few things were pretty much a given: this is […] Read more
Gifuu Dodou should be manly enough to satisfy even the most manly of tastes. Pretty much everything you need to know about this series you can guess from the writer/director and the time slot. It’s based on a manga by Hara Tetsuo, famous for Fist of the North Star, who’s […] Read more
Summer season, start. LiA kicks off the season with another “earlycast” from Niconico, with the usual craptacular quality. If I decide to stick with Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi it’s going to be a similar decision to RDG: watch the netcast and blog, or wait for the HD releases? That decision […] Read more
Mushibugyou snuck a recap episode in under the guise of a fanservice episode, so not much to say here. If you want to look for the 3 minutes of sento fanservice, it is in there scattered among the recycled material. The most interesting takeaway is that Kuroageha looks a lot […] Read more
Well, that was a shame, really. It’s hard to find too much to say about Arata Kangatari, really, because the whole enterprise speaks more to the potential it left untapped than to anything that appeared on screen. The finale, like the rest of the series, was perfectly fine for what […] Read more
There was one major character element missing from Kingdom, and it looks as if it’s arrived. The scope of Kingdom continues to widen, and with it the already bewilderingly large cast (which is like two casts, given that everyone has two different readings of their name). Zheng’s challenge seems to […] Read more
Chalk this one up as another ending that wasn’t. I’ll always have a real affection for Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, because it was the first series that really went at Ishihara Shintaro head on, and the only one that’s savaged him the way he deserves to be savaged. That episode in the […] Read more
For me, among the myriad questions facing this finale one stood out – would Gen finally answer one of his own questions? Short answer: Yes (pretty much). Long answer: Well… Still mostly yes, I think. Gen Urobuchi promised this would be a different sort of series than we’re used to […] Read more