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Weekly Digest 2/26/14 – Tonari no Seki-Kun, Witch Craft Works
That was pretty random even by WCW standards. Tonari no Seki-kun – 08 Shogi makes a return this week on Tonari no Seki-kun, with the focus this time shifting to family drama. Not surprisingly a story of forbidden love is even more irresistible to Yokoi than Seki-kun’s usual antics – […] Read more
Chihayafuru – 124/125
Let the games begin. It’s a double release of Chihayafuru this week – in translated form anyway. And the form the story itself takes should be very familiar to viewers of the anime’s second season, because these chapters take place almost entirely in tournament mode. As always with the Queen/Meijin […] Read more
Hunter X Hunter 2011 – 118
That apology didn’t really sound sincere to me… It’s hard to believe that there’s been complaining about the latest run of episodes of Hunter X Hunter, but there has. In fact, it goes back to the days when the manga first introduced this part of the story. I suppose it’s […] Read more
Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta – 08
War is hell, for sure – but that sure as hell wasn’t war. It was a massacre. For the second week in a row Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta presents us with an episode that far exceeds in execution what it offers in conception. The head-heart divide is very much […] Read more
Yowamushi Pedal – 20
The fated rival holds up his end of the bargain. I’m not too surprised Yowamushi Pedal chose to fill in the backstory of Manami Sangaku. He has a crucial role to play in the story – with Onoda’s two co-leads effectively paired off from a sports standpoint (at least) and […] Read more
Kingdom 2 – 38
That sure didn’t smell like a penultimate episode. Boy, having Kingdom end next week is seriously going to suck. You could hardly ask for a more open-ended “resolution” – we have plates spinning everywhere. The military and political situations have never been more in flux, Qian Lei is whereabouts unknown, […] Read more
Space Dandy – 08
For a show where things repeat themselves so often, Space Dandy is proving stubbornly unpredictable. Well, Cowboy Bebop fans should certainly get off Watanabe-sensei’s case now. Not only has he given them an episode that had a complete Bebop feel (#5) but now he’s referenced the show directly by including […] Read more
Noragami – 08
Another week, another rock-solid episode of Noragami. This continues to be the most consistent series of the season in more ways than one, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily easy to figure out. Starting with the fact that I’m not yet 100% sure if this is a full-fledged dark story […] Read more
Diamond no Ace – 20
Now the real drama begins. As soon as I saw this week’s episode title (“Emergency”) this was one of the possibilities I considered that it might refer to. Ultimately this is the story of the duel between Eijun and Furuya for the ace number, and while the third-years have been […] Read more