Brave 10 – 05 I’m kind of coasting along in a holding pattern with Brave 10. It’s easy to watch and competently produced, but really isn’t doing much to excite me. Somehow the writing feels very by-the-books to me – while the characters have a sort of iconic quality to […] Read more
This formula of alternating between relationship episodes and Karuta episodes was already working quite well, but I was especially pleased by the unexpected turn the tournament took this week. While we got wall-to-wall competitive action this time, some of the familiar themes we’ve seen throughout the series continued to be […] Read more
As anyone with older sisters can tell you, there are no scarier words than “Is this your younger brother?” I’m seeing some complaints about the way girls are portrayed on this show, and to say that I find that ironic would be understatement on the galactic scale. I think girls […] Read more
What a simple formula – turn the camera on a bunch of nice people spending time together, who will inevitably hurt each other without meaning to. Why don’t writers do it more often? I have to give JC Staff credit where it’s due. They’ve gotten their share of criticism from […] Read more
I’m with Nyanko-sensei on this one – I love festivals. If I have any minor quibble with the fourth season, it’s that it’s been a little light on the Nyanko-sensei this far. That was corrected in a big way this week as Madara moved front and center for the first […] Read more
It was frankly amazing how many questions were answered this episode. But that doesn’t mean all the answers Mei gave were necessarily the right ones… I’ll get the fanboy stuff out of the way quickly, so we can move on the fun part and speculate: Another is outstanding, and this […] Read more
Sometimes in an anime, a character will say something that’s been obvious to the reader all along, but never muttered aloud on screen. The interesting part comes in seeing how the characters react to it. I’d say that Marco has the honesty of the doomed, but he was pretty much […] Read more
Ewww – you got Kaji Yuuki in my Shana… Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam – 15 Try to imagine the “Star Wars” prequels if Jar Jar Binks had been the main character, and you have a pretty good notion of why Last Exile’s sequel is simply unable to take flight. […] Read more
Tanto was serialized? That’s the most depressing “good news” ever. It’s looking inevitable that the crap gag manga (well, it is making me gag) is going to swallow up the rest of this season and deprive us of any coolness or GAR from Ashirogi Muto. No good manga from the […] Read more
I confess, if you floated the proposition two months ago that Hunter X Hunter was going to be one of the better series airing as we entered February, I would have been highly skeptical. But you’d have been right, and I’d have been wrong. I’d also have been skeptical that […] Read more