I’m not quite sure how the main characters in a JC Staff anime ended up watching High School of the Dead – on the big screen no less – but I’m sure Madhouse was happy for the plug. While this episode wasn’t quite the flawless masterwork last week’s was, it […] Read more
This was probably the weakest episode of the season, but when you’re talking about a show as consistently great as Natsume Yuujinchou, that’s a relative term. If there was one element to this week’s ep that stood out, it was the chance to see Natsume through the eyes of another […] Read more
“Nothing good comes from digging up the past.” – Uryuu Minene If you’ll forgive the hyperbole, I think that was the best Mirai Nikki episode for quite a while, and one of the best of the series so far. For the first time in several weeks everything was firing on […] Read more
Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam – 14 Believe it or not, I take no pleasure in the heaps of abuse Fam (the character, not the show) has been receiving lately. I really hoped she’d come around and vindicate her presence in the series. The fully duality of Last Exile: Fam […] Read more
Pretty much everything in Bakuman is going to hell in a handbasket at the moment. I’m pissed off at pretty much everyone and everything in it – but in the end, I guess that’s much better than not caring at all. At the moment, maybe the one I feel most […] Read more
It seems pretty fitting that the “Hunter Vocabulary” this week was “too bad”, because that seems to be the mantra of anyone who crosses Killua’s path. There was really no way this episode was going to live up to the colossal blockbuster that was episode 16, and it didn’t really […] Read more
More of the same on this week’s Mouretsu Pirates – some very nice-looking brainy sci-fi slice-of-life that doesn’t do much to quicken the pulse. That’s not to say this was a bad episode. We did get the interesting nugget of information that privateers are listed in the phone book, and […] Read more
All right all you whiners who wanted to hear Takayama Minami sing again – you happy now? You know this episode of Senshogear was a “very special” one, because there was no OP – and indeed it was, a little bit of everything and an emotional rollercoaster. In the process […] Read more
How does the season look now that we’re about a month in? About like most of them have lately – pretty good but not great. And why do all four of my favorite new shows have to air on the same damn day? There are a couple of trends I’m […] Read more
Three episode rule or not, I’m still not sure where I stand with Area no Kishi even after four. I certainly wasn’t surprised to find out that Grey was Nana – that seemed pretty obvious to me from the first time we saw her. But the much more interesting question is this […] Read more