If anyone has earned the right to show off a little, it’s Madhouse. Anime Mirai definitely looks like it’s stepped up its game a little in terms of budget, judging by Death Billiards and Little Witch Academia (but then, there’s Arve Rezzle…). Death Billiards is definitely an experimental type of […] Read more
The sense here is that the prologue is over, and we’ve moved on to the main event. We’re a third of the way through RDG now, so I’m feeling pretty much pot-committed on watching it via the pre-airs at this point. I re-watched the first episode in HD just to […] Read more
If you were worried that the magic would be gone, I think you can relax – Haiyore! is just as agreeably nuts as ever. This is a wholly unsurprising sequel, and it’s a wholly unsurprising show as well. Haiyore delivers what we expect most of the time, and that’s usually […] Read more
We’ve been down this road with Satelight before, and it’s a worrying one. I mentioned earlier tonight in my Mushibugyou review (sorry Stilts, I liked it) that it was an advantage not to have any experience with a source material when it undergoes significant changes for an anime. I have […] Read more
Here’s another one that was pretty far off my radar screen, but… I wasn’t expecting to find too much to interest me in Mushibugyou, which is why I didn’t include it in the season preview post. And especially after the hatchet job RC did on it (Hell hath no fury […] Read more
“Dark Wings, Dark Words” In a funny sort of way, I wonder if Game of Thrones is starting to boil down to liking an episode based on personal preferences for characters and storylines. In any given week, it’s not all that far off from a 50-50 split – and it’s […] Read more
The frozen time will start to move. And that is when everything will begin… I’ve puzzled a bit over how to approach this post – a series review that isn’t really a series review, for a show that doesn’t neatly fit into the box anyone (new viewer or veteran Buster) […] Read more
The eternal quest for a truly great Gen Urobuchi series is off to a terrific start. I was a bit worried about the Spring season after the first batch of premieres, but this weekend has brought a pretty impressive crop. Some of that is the power of sheer numbers, of […] Read more
I could lead this post with the same headline I used for Hunter X Hunter, but I wouldn’t mean in quite such a complimentary way. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since the first season of Oreimo graced our screens – though partly that feeling is because […] Read more
“The Rings of Akhaten” Neil Cross, the highly-acclaimed writer who created the BBC crime drama Luther, makes his initial foray into Doctor Who territory (he also wrote the episode that will air in two weeks) with an episode that takes him pretty far from his historical comfort zone. “Akhaten” stands […] Read more