I don’t know whether it was the two-episode break from pattern or that this was simply better, but even returning to the three mini-episode format Kyoukai no Rinne feels refreshed. Read more

That got rather complicated… Read more

Needless to say, I’d have preferred if this episode of Kyoukai no Rinne had been any other week but this one. Read more

Seeing all this absurdity (and poverty, in Rinne’s case) for three seasons seems to have made everyone preposterously jaded. Read more

It strikes me not for the first time that it’s something of a miracle that Kyoukai no Rinne works at all as a manga. Read more

It’s almost as if this show has turned into an anime version of English panto. Read more

Well, that wasn’t how I expected the next “MIII-E-RUUUU!” to appear, but I’ll take it… Read more

This week’s sampler starts out well enough for Rinne-kun, though the trend is in the wrong direction. Read more

With 10% off on Shinigami tools looming, can financial freedom be far behind? Read more

I never really thought about it, but “so poor he doesn’t even have boiling water” is about as bleak as it gets in Japan. Read more