We have a situation in the two shoujo romances this season where the lead couple probably shouldn’t be together, but for entirely different reasons. This is a series that really cries out for a longer adaptation, because it’s hard to see any way that four more episodes are going to do it […] Read more
I really only had one problem with this excellent episode, but it’s a fairly big one. Overall, I continue to be impressed with Sukitte Ii na yo as a pretty realistic, unsentimental and sometimes brutal look at teen romance. It does something few such shows – either shoujo or harem […] Read more
I’m beginning to see a kind of sick wish-fulfillment at the center of Btooom!. Btooom! – 07 I really wish I had time to keep up with JoJo, because in a way it would be a natural show to blog alongside this one. Both are marvels of excess and bombast, […] Read more
Of all the series I’ve liked over the last couple of seasons, Little Busters! may be the hardest affection to justify. In a court of law, a stipulation is when both sides agree to a certain set of facts, and that they won’t be argued for the duration of the […] Read more
“I feel so light. No weight on my legs… No weight on my chest.” I’d like to say I wondered if this episode would break me down, but I pretty much knew that it would – it was really more a question of what would be the trigger. And interestingly, […] Read more
If you’ve been impatient for me to criticize the Madhouse Hunter X Hunter, your long wait is finally over. There’s no new episode next week. How could you do that to me after such a great episode, and that cliffhanger? There – never let it be said that I’m not hard on […] Read more
In all honestly I’m having a hard time sorting out Zetsuen no Tempest, but the fact that it’s something special shines through that uncertainty. I don’t know why BONES didn’t decide to take on Shakespeare years ago, because they pair together like wine and cheese. Rarely in anime have I […] Read more
Well then – let the apoplexy begin. If you’re going to do a timeskip, I guess you may as well go all-out and completely blow preconceptions out of the water as Shin Sekai Yori did. Novel readers obviously had an idea of what was coming, and some of us who […] Read more
So this was the week Chuunibyou finally crossed the unseen horizon and went serious. And all in all, it did a pretty darn good job of it. When a comedy goes serious, you can look at it two ways. You can judge it by the vehicle it chooses for the […] Read more
The world of Psycho-Pass continues to get darker, stranger and more interesting every week. Considering the somewhat reflective way in which this episode started, it certainly managed to pack an awful lot into its 22 minutes. It ended up being one of the creepiest episodes yet, and also one of […] Read more