I don’t want to complain, but all this superbly written anime is getting a bit monotonous. I may need to do a re-watch of Guilty Crown to break up the weekends. Hirata Hiroaki really is a marvel. I had a hard time believing he could top his performance as Kotetsu […] Read more
Guardian Enzo, LIA, 4/14/12: If you’re going with Mako, why not KoKo? Much catchier – might win the war right there… Bryan Konietzko, tumblr, 5/5/12: You guys have the shipping names all wrong: it’s Koko and Kolin. Love, Brychael. Just sayin’… Read more
Why do I get the feeling that this series just started? Every time anime blogging begins to feel a little too much like work (and I know I’m blogging too many shows this season) it’s Hunter X Hunter I crave, because it’s like a vacation. This show is just too […] Read more
Great anime romance comes in many different flavors, but none stranger than MGX. I thought Nazo no Kanojo X was just slightly off its game last week. It was still a very good episode, but the first one that didn’t quite “wow” me. Well, not so this week as things […] Read more
Korra is certainly fundamentally different than the original Avatar on every level when it comes to the romantic side of the equation. Bryke just aren’t messing about here, are they? “The only guy she had eyes for” – right in the recap? LOL – talk about getting to the point! […] Read more
So this is your plan eh, Urobuchi-san – turn Kiritsugu into a cute shota voiced by Miyu Irino to make me like him? Devious, indeed… It seems odd for F/Z to take an unannounced two-episode break from a very involving storyline to delve into Kiritsugu’s past, but that’s exactly what’s […] Read more
Kaji Yuuki may just have found the role he was born to play. As I look ahead to what seems like a somewhat threadbare summer season, Sword Art Online is one of the shows that appears most interesting. So while Accel World is a fairly interesting show in its own […] Read more
When will guys like Jigen Daisuke ever learn? Dames are nothing but trouble… The adventures of anime’s signature femme fatale of the season mostly center around two of her partners in crime this week. There’s been a lot of grumbling in the fan community about the firm of Okada, Sakamoto […] Read more
There can be be no question that when it comes to disturbing the hell out of me, Sankarea knows exactly what it’s doing. This is one seriously weird show. I’m hard-pressed to think of another series that feels so much at odds with itself and has so many discordant tones […] Read more
“The one where stuff blowed up real good.” I have to say that AO is working on pretty much every level for me, but what really impresses me – all the more so given the uncertainty about the writer going in – is how the series seems so carefully and […] Read more