Updated info below the fold. Update: It’s Pierrot, 25 episodes. Of most interest to me was this quote: “Katsuki is collaborating on the creation of episodes with original stories not told in the manga.” My initial reaction to this is pretty negative, to be honest. Pierrot has access to some […] Read more
There are many remarkable things about this series, but it’s remarkable in and of itself that it can still surprise me after 104 episodes. I’m not at all surprised to see Togashi leave behind all of his main characters (it feels like it might be for a while) and […] Read more
That was an episode that put the “epic” in historical epic. Kingdom 2 – 23 Bad CGI and all, this last sequence of battles has been one of the best I’ve seen in anime for a long time. Admittedly that’s a pretty low bar since hardly anyone is doing this […] Read more
There are limits to how far a lot of plucky optimism can take a person… It’s a great time to be a sports anime fan, all the more so with this week’s announcement that tennis manga Baby Steps will be getting an anime adaptation next Spring. That’s one of the […] Read more
I won’t say I’m surprised at the winner here (I voted for it myself) but this was a much bigger whitewash than I expected. Specialist carries the day, with an almost 3-1 margin over the runner-up, Enhancer. The field was tightly packed except for Emitter, which trailed badly. Not much […] Read more
It’s hard to believe I ever had any doubts about Gingitsune given how I feel about it right now. The trajectory for this show has been unidirectional since the third episode, straight up. And so has been my affection for it. I went into this season solidly ranking it as […] Read more
In case there was any doubt, that light at the end of the tunnel is definitely a speeding train. There a tragic sort of tone to White Album these days for me, despite the generally warm tone to much of the material. Rarely have I seen an impending train wreck […] Read more
Well, any way you slice it that was a “Shaka, when the walls fell” kind of episode. I’m trying very hard to trust Kyosuuke here, because in my gut I can’t help believe he has what’s best for Riki and Rin – and all the Little Busters – at heart. […] Read more
Yup, that’s manga baseball all right. One of the things that’s always driven me crazy about baseball in manga – even in series I love, like Major – is this notion that the only manly thing to do is fight the opponent by throwing fastballs down the middle. Well, unless […] Read more