If there was any doubt, this episode proves Uchuu Kyoudai is back on-form. This was definitely my favorite episode of Space Brothers since the schedule change, and quite possibly since Mutta received the news that he’d passed the JAXA exam from Hoshika-sensei and shared the aftermath with his teammates (those […] Read more
I just want to reiterate – this is airing at 10:55 in the morning… I was mentally prepared for the kind of sea change that was coming to Hunter X Hunter after the “Greed island” arc ended – I’d certainly read enough about it. But knowing it and experiencing are […] Read more
In May just about every day has a major festival somewhere in Japan, if you’re willing to look. But this is one of the big ones. Perfect weather all week, rain on the one day I had something planned – that’s the way it’s been lately in Tokyo. This week […] Read more
An interesting side-effect of the change in focus is that it’s made Chihayafuru a much more difficult show to blog this season. If you’ve been watching, you know pretty much what to expect out of Chihayafuru this week – another intense, riveting episode spent entirely following events on the tatami. […] Read more
Valvrave the Liberator has definitely lapped loopy, and jumped straight to batshit nuts. As I watched this episode and the sheer bakayaroucity (Minami Chiaki’s word – it fits perfectly, but she gets the credit) gathered momentum like a boulder rolling down a ski jump, one thought kept playing in my […] Read more
I can’t blame Chiho’s school friend, really – it’s not like Maou and Ashiya aren’t playing the part to the hilt. Call this a breather ep or whatever you will, but this was definitely the most low-key episode of Hataraku Maou-sama for a while, and probably overall. That seemed inevitable […] Read more
To say that Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince has turned out to be a different show than the one I expected after the premiere is a healthy understatement. My take on GKMP has been forming over the last few weeks, and this episode did nothing to change it – but it […] Read more
Its defenders and detractors would agree about very little when it comes to Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, but one thing they’d both probably stipulate to is that it’s one weird show. But in some ways it may in fact be the most unusual I’ve ever covered. Little did I […] Read more
Cute girls baking cookies. Not much to say about the KoiChoco OVA, really. It basically chronicles an afternoon in the life of Yuuki as the overworked Student Council President, or more specifically Chisato and Satsuki fighting over his time. Chisato wants him to teach her to bake, and Satsuki wants […] Read more
Things continue to move along at a brisk but manageable pace with Arata Kangatari, which as yet stubbornly refuses to offer up any clues suggesting radical changes to the storyline to compensate for its brevity. I’m finding – more so with the anime than with the manga, perhaps because the […] Read more