Take the blue pill, Souta-kun! Gao, gao! indeed. In a series full of wild plot twists and whiplash mood swings, this episode more than any of the ones than came before it felt like it was straight out of left field. I don’t know whether the anime is veering off […] Read more
The sheer depth of wrongness you get from any one episode of Gokukoku no Brynhildr is truly impressive. There was a chain of events late in this episode that really sums up for me why this series is so delightfully unhinged. In uninterrupted sequence: Ryouta returns from his meeting with […] Read more
Seems like the reservation for four at Heartbreak Hotel hasn’t been cancelled. In a way, watching kids be casually cruel to each other is more painful than any Urobutcher despair-fest. It’s because it’s something we’ve all seen and experienced in our own lives (much unlike any Gen series I can […] Read more
“The Children” At this point, about the only thing I can see clearly at the spot on the map where next season of Game of Thrones lies is “Here there be dragons”. That’s what they used to write on nautical charts in the old days when the waters were uncharted, […] Read more
“May the best man win” can be kind of a misnomer. I’m kind of waiting (though who knows, maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised) for an avalanche of criticism for this episode of Baby Steps because Maruo won his match with Miyagawa. On one level I’d understand it, but I think […] Read more
Who would have thought a bunt could be so emotional? I must confess that I’m liking Todoroki Raizou more and more as Yakushi’s appearance in Ace of Diamond plays out. Part of it is the fact that his admittedly dysfunctional relationship with Raichi is increasingly looking to be less abusive […] Read more
That might be the best shota vs. obaba showdown since Killua vs. Bisky (ironically). I hope this one has a different outcome. Apart from a couple of wayward steps in the middle, Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii has been consistently pretty damn good, and it’s shaping to finish up with what […] Read more
A squirrel or a bust – which would you choose, Akari? Sidonia no Kishi – 10 I’m quite stumped as to where Sidonia no Kishi is headed with only three episodes left. The story is definitely still in the expansion phase with no signs of that reversing soon, and the […] Read more
Anything that makes me think of Gingitsune is a good thing. It’s really heating up in Tokyo, but any sunny day in June almost demands to be taken advantage of because they’re so rare. And that’s all the more true when it coincides with the big weekend of the Hie […] Read more
I don’t know what I can add to an episode like that, really. That’s what anime perfection looks like. I would strongly advise aspiring anime directors to avoid watching this week’s Mushishi. I think the instinctive reaction would be, “What’s the point after someone has already done that?” In an […] Read more