Even by Byrnhildr standards, that was an unholy mess. What – you you expecting something different? Take a series that’s batshit crazy to begin with, and add trying to do a complete adaptation of 9 volumes (and counting) in 13 episodes and what do you get? One of the most […] Read more
Sasuga. Haikyuu!! simply delivers. I’m not the world’s biggest volleyball fan, but in today’s highly-competitive environment for sports anime where everyone can claim some element that they do best, there’s no question in my mind that Haikyuu’s is this: it does the finest job of actually making the sports itself […] Read more
Those were master strokes, indeed. I was a little surprised by how much negativity I saw from manga readers when this match arrived upon the scene in the Baby Steps anime. Not shocked mind you, as this is one of the more unusual scenarios that plays out in the series […] Read more
Hey – with all this soccer, don’t forget it’s still baseball season. In the eternal war between soccer and baseball – two spring sports that vie for the hearts of schoolboy athletes and couch potatoes both in Japan and America – the beautiful game scored a blow over the national […] Read more
Taken either as an ending or a beginning, this episode finds Captain Earth in a pretty good place. It hasn’t exactly come back from the dead like a blowed-up and drowned yakuza, but Captain Earth has certainly shown a new vigour over the last few weeks. After a span of […] Read more
Great endings truly are a beautiful thing. One of my oft-stated core beliefs is “good endings are hard”, but episodes like this one make it awfully hard to make the case. The thing about great endings is that they usually look incredibly easy – they have the effect of making […] Read more
“The Wind Rises” If there’s one word that springs to mind when contemplating Miyazaki Hayao’s final film, it would be “difficult”. And I’ve contemplated it a lot. I saw it in Japanese soon after its theatrical premiere, and seeing it a second time with subtitles has done nothing to help […] Read more
Yes, the post title is correct. A second season of Sidonia no Kishi really made too much sense not to happen. Presumably when someone leaked the news early a couple of weeks ago, all of the relevant parties denied it because there were still t’s to be crossed and i’s […] Read more
Any episode that ends with Komari disappearing is A-OK in my book… Little Busters! is a series of many moods, no question about it. Starting with the last few eps of the first season, though, they’ve mostly been pretty serious – understandably so, and those were collectively the best run […] Read more