Brave 10 – 03 It’s always fun to see a good old-fashioned samurai/ninja period piece, even if this one is aimed more at Higashi-Ikebukuro than Akihabara or the middle school. As always, Brave 10 is fun in it’s slightly gender-bending and silly way, with this week mostly being taken up […] Read more
The pacing was pretty breakneck in episode 15 of Mirai Nikki, along with episode 5 maybe the fastest yet. OP2: “Dead END” by 飛蘭 (Faylan) With three chapters to cover and a new OP and ED to highlight, it’s no wonder the omake was skipped this week. It’s probably a […] Read more
We have a winner: The results: 1. Steins;Gate – 23% 2. Madoka Magica – 16% 3. Mawaru Penguin Drum – 8% 4. AnoHana – 5% 4. Fate/Zero – 5% Full results after the jump. What Was Your Favorite Series of 2011? Read more
In the battle of epic island arcs, Shounen Sunday vs. Shounen Jump, Fairy Tail vs. Hunter x Hunter, Madhouse takes the lead over A-1 Pictures with the best episode of H x H and one of the best anime episodes of a young 2012. That was just about the culmination […] Read more
This was the week that Bodacious Space Pirates finally got off the ground, but alas that’s truer in the literal sense than in the dramatic. To be blunt, I don’t really have all that much to say about this series. It’s unusual to be both so conflicted and so ambivalent […] Read more
That was the best episode of “Fam” for a while, because it was focused squarely on what the show is best at, by far – the machinations of Luscinia and the Ades Federation, lots of big space battles, and the ugly side of global power politics. When the series uses […] Read more
Events continue to barrel along at a breakneck pace, but my suspicion is now that “that” has happened, things are going to slow down quite a bit – and we’re going to find out just how good a series Area no Kishi is. Or isn’t. There are a lot of […] Read more
I almost used the same tagline I did last week, because it’s still true – Senshogear is still a mess, but there’s something about it that’s working for me. Yes, I did notice the shocking lapses in animation quality, especially in the second half of the episode. The scene where […] Read more
Considering how bland the first season’s Rihoko arc was, this was a surprisingly entertaining episode. Amagami is interesting in that among it’s 6-heroine omnibus format, we have not one but two osananajimis. Of the two, Rihoko had the least interesting first season, and she seems much more hopelessly mired in […] Read more
Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society’s Animation Festival, I was able to attend a screening of the FMA film tonight. After a harrowing odyssey of bizarre Sunday-night traffic that turned a normally 20-minute drive into a 90-minute serpentine through unfamiliar surface streets, I found a parking space and pulled […] Read more