Don’t worry, Saori – I’m sure it’s just a cold. Sometimes you just have to accept that what entertains you entertains you, and that’s where I am with Gokukoku no Brynhildr. I could spend all day theorizing on just how straight it’s trying to play it and what its intentions […] Read more
Baby Steps really is a series of paradoxes, and I’m not sure that will serve it well (no pun intended) in reaching its audience. There’s definitely a Yin and Yang quality to the two Sunday supper sports anime this season, and it’s one reason that I worry about Baby Steps. […] Read more
This series is definitely the express to the right side of the brain. I’m noticing an interesting effect with Isshuukan Friends, which is that invariably I find myself much more wrapped up in the second half of an episode than the first. Though this is by no means universal to […] Read more
Like the guy on Jerry’s TV said, you gotta love sports… I was all set to watch Baby Steps after Haikyuu, but after watching the latter I’ve changed my mind. With Diamond no Ace added back into the mix, I think three corker sports anime in one day is simply […] Read more
Are you sure you wanted to take a week off with so much competition, Daiya no A? There’s a great moment of self-parody – no one does self-parody quite like Adachi – in Cross Game (only the manga, sadly) where Aoba is recuperating from her broken leg in the hospital […] Read more
I suppose understanding what was going on for two straight weeks in a BONES sci-fi original was a non-starter… One of the most frustrating yet enticing things about BONES projects like Captain Earth is the constant struggle to try and make sense of all the myriad twists and turns and […] Read more
When in doubt, blame religion… I would say this episode of Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii didn’t work quite as well as the previous three, though I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I think it’s pretty easy to say why, at least for my part. What I enjoy most about […] Read more
Mushishi is re-introducing itself to the world, shade by shade. To follow up on my analogy of last week, Mushishi as a series seems more than ever like a painting – one where we’re privileged to see the brushstrokes applied every week. Every color is part of what defines the […] Read more
The sport of Ping Pong isn’t the only thing one could learn a lot about from watching this series. Absolutely fascinating, this show is – subtle, intense, funny, challenging. It’s ugly as Yuasa anime usually are, but it has a kind of beauty to it too – the kind of […] Read more
It has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, but wherever this is, I want to go there ASAP. I’m straddling so many fences I’m starting to worry about groin pulls, but Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou is yet another show I’m not quite decided on. It’s close – […] Read more