The classic introduction of an anime villain is surely, “Hey – you’re that guy from the toilet!” If there were any doubt that this world is not the one we live in 13 years in the future, it was pretty much dispelled this week beyond any reasonable doubt. There have […] Read more
Sometimes the good guys win after all. Of all the sequel announcements that have happened since I became an anime fan, this just might be my happiest moment. In the face of an upcoming season full of unworthy sequels representing the dumbing down of anime in the worst way, a […] Read more
Sankarea is a show that stubbornly refuses to behave the way I expect it to. I confess, I’m really not sure what DEEN and director Hatakeyama are are planning – maybe there’s a second season green-lit already for all I know. But the series has undeniably taking a weird and […] Read more
Dammit Watanabe, why do you insist on making it look so easy? This was an amazingly simple episode of Sakamichi no Apollon, really. Basically four main scenes, plus a few supporting ones, spread out over the winter holidays as Kyushu is covered by a light blanket of snow. I can […] Read more
Though the plot is really heating up, I can already see Tsuritama returning squarely to its roots for the final arc. I’m hard-pressed to think of a show that’s been as consistent as this one has. Though there have certainly been stylistic changes, the overall quality has been remarkably stable […] Read more
Short intestines? Kawaii!! A little change of pace this week, with the entire episode taken up by one chapter – “Mr. Handa’s Group Blind Date” (apart from a tiny segment about pot stickers at the beginning). Actually, the pot sticker mini and the blind date chapter did have a common […] Read more
What is first shall be… First. What – is it summer already? OP: “Pride” by Nothing’s Carved in Stone Seems like every anime season lately has a series that debuts a month before the rest of them. This time around, it’s Kingdom, from Studio Pierrot. There are several reasons this […] Read more
Parents – don’t swing your kids by the arms like that, it’s very bad for them. The more you know. Well, they left it in for a change – Jonah’s voice-over narration that is. This was one of his more critical internal monologues, sort of the acid test of whether […] Read more
The most unassuming of the Triplets reveals his true colors at last… We’ve definitely seen two of the Furuya Brothers carve out their own identity already. Kouta is a sullen genius, the spoiled diva. Ryuuji is the smiling front man for the group, the voice of “reason” such as it […] Read more
For once, I’m glad I wasn’t invited. Unfortunately, this is one of those eps where the extreme compression ratio of this adaptation becomes clear. While I got the basic gist of what was happening, there were certain elements that never quite clicked, and left me a little unsure as to […] Read more