It’s completely natural for a very good show to have a letdown after an episode as flawless as last week’s edition of AO. The fact that this show suffered no such letdown is an awfully good omen for its future. I never expected last week’s episode – quite possibly my […] Read more
The return of the man himself arrives at last, and it doesn’t disappoint. There aren’t too many characters like Mine Fujiko in mainstream anime – a woman who will unabashedly sell her body to get what she wants. That’s why viewers calling what this series does “fanservice” are really missing the point […] Read more
In a season full of quality anime of all styles and genres, Tsuritama remains strangely and wonderfully different from all the rest. I love the fact that Tsuritama is so markedly different from anything that Nakamura Kenji has done before, yet still retains the essence of who he is as […] Read more
Why does everyone make this anime thing out to be so hard? Just do it like that. I almost feel as if I shouldn’t defile this episode by even trying to talk about it, but I guess that’s my job – and the hard part at the moment is to […] Read more
Trying to explain what makes Shirokuma Café so funny is like trying to… Well, it’s hard. But comedy is always hard to explain, and this is funny – at least to me. Here’s what I laughed especially hard at this week: Penguin-san’s inability to “pinch zoom” his sumafo – and […] Read more
“Hanami Ghostbusters” Once or twice a season (this time it’s Ginga e Kickoff and Shirokuma Café), there’s usually a show that wins you over with it’s simplicity – a show that just makes you feel good every time you watch it. It’s usually nothing fancy in terms of plot or […] Read more
In case you hadn’t already figured it out from the first two episodes, Jormungand isn’t trying to win you over with gritty realism. In way ways, this chapter feels as if it’s the one where the series really begins. Without question this was the best episode of the first three […] Read more
“A Day in the Life” It says something about what a skilled writer Kaoru Mori is that she could write a chapter like this one, and have it be one of the best of the series. I doubt many authors would have even tried. To call this chapter a simple […] Read more
Possession: Barcelona 72% Chelsea 28% Shots: Barcelona 25 Chelsea 7 Aggregate: Barcelona 2, Chelsea 3 Football is a funny game. Area no Kishi – 16 I’m still not quite sold on this whole Kakeru-Suguru possession side of the story. This time Kakeru hits his head (we saw that last week) […] Read more