What a good day Monday is looking to be this season (apart from my sore eyes, tired fingers and lack of sleep). Ano Natsu de Matteru provides another terrific premiere. OP: “sign” by Ray It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen either Onegai series, fairly early in my anime […] Read more
It’s very hard for a show with the kind of expectations I had for Another to live up to them, and after watching the premiere I have to say it didn’t. It surpassed them. OP: “Kyoumu Densen” (凶夢伝染; Nightmare Contagion) by ALI PROJECT Simply put, this was an outstanding effort […] Read more
As we go further and further into Bakuman, I’m becoming more convinced every week that Niizuma Eiji is the smartest guy in the room. This series has been on an incredibly strong run for most of this season, but it seems to be in a bit of a trough at […] Read more
There now, Asread – you didn’t need luminescent pink eyes to show that Yuno was batcrap insane this week, did you? The pieces are slowly but surely starting to come together on Mirai Nikki as we close out the first half of its run. Despite the fact that the break […] Read more
I think JC Staff, realizing that too much time has passed for “Shana” to ever return to its glory days as a commercial success, has pretty well decided to stop worrying and love the bomb. At this point they don’t seem too concerned with anything except throwing as much Shana-porn […] Read more
Not a whole lot to say here, as our first GC in two weeks is a one-hour recap of the first cour with no new footage. As some raw watchers have pointed out, it might say something about the writing here that a one-hour special was probably a better telling […] Read more
It’s awards season, and a good time to finish my look back on 2011 with our own “Oscars” for the year in anime. And the winners are… Best Song: “Cras numquam scire” by Yucca – Dantalian no Shoka OP It’s hard to top “Secret Base” from AnoHana, but this gorgeous […] Read more
Anyone who’s read “The Most Dangerous Game” will certainly feel right at home with the premise of H x H 13, the first episode of new material in three weeks. As usual, the hunter exam is really more about mind games than physical challenges, though the latter are certainly a […] Read more
I wouldn’t say Bodacious Space Pirates was one of my most anticipated series of the Winter, but it was certainly one I was looking forward to. And given the studio, staff and premise, it delivered just about what I expected. OP: “Mōretsu Uchū Kōkyōkyoku – Dai-Shichi Gakushō ‘Mugen no Ai’” […] Read more
Dammit, I was really thinking this might be an easy season for me as long as something that wasn’t on my watch list didn’t crack the rotation. Well… Honestly, I went into this one pretty much cold turkey. I knew Divine from RC liked it a lot, but SenZeSym (copyright […] Read more