The big news is the news that isn’t – still no Shirokuma-san ED. The clock is ticking. Shirokuma Cafe’s grand tour of Japanese holidays continues this week with Hina Matsuri, the quite famous “Girl’s Festival” (boys get theirs in May, though sadly it appears we won’t see Shirokuma’s take on […] Read more
Has that long-awaited moment family come? It’s always been pretty obvious that Bakuman is as much as anything a love story, but an unconventional one – a chronicle of the authors’ undying love for the art of manga, and the people who dedicate their lives to it. That’s a noble […] Read more
There’s something to be said for finishing a season with your best material ever. I’m very much divided about Kingdom. On the one hand, I can’t help but think with regret about what might have been. If this series had been animated in grand style by Production I.G. or BONES, […] Read more
“Measuring Up” I really can’t take many more chapters like this one. It’s getting to the point now where Karluk and Amira are getting dangerously close to becoming one of my favorite manga or anime couples of all time. I don’t know how it’s possible for Mori-sensei to make a […] Read more
Any way you slice it, a high-school dude chasing after a girl shouting “Eat my fresh vegetable stick!” is just plain wrong. It’s glorious to have Minami-ke back at the height of its powers again, because it’s a reminder that this is one of the titans of anime comedy. Frankly […] Read more
Time for one last diversion before we likely stick to “route” episodes until the end of the first season, but this stand-alone episode might just have been more relevant that it first appears. These sidebar eps of Little Busters! have been a mixed bag in terms of quality, though I […] Read more
One-word review: Wang-Qi. That is all. Read more
Congratulations, Mutta Nanba – today is the first day of the rest of your life. The sense of new beginnings is strong with Space Brothers this week. This is what I’ve been asking for all along – the story of Mutta as an astronaut, being brought to our screens at […] Read more
No matter how great Hunter X Hunter is, it can always be made just a little better by adding a little Hisoka to the mix. Sorry to bore you, but I just have no choice but to lavish some more praise on Togashi Yoshihiro. This episode (which apparently consisted of […] Read more
Some may have been surprised at the events this week on Zetsuen no Tempest, but I think they were actually fairly predictable. I confess I’m kind of torn about the non-event (not the sort of event it might have been, anyway) the revelation of the truth between Yoshino and Mahiro […] Read more