To some extent, Makai Ouji is truth in advertising. Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist is published in Weekly Zero Sum, the same magazine that features the likes of 07 Ghost and Karenval. As such you have a pretty clear idea of what to expect here, and in some ways we […] Read more
Let the comparisons begin… OP: “ViViD” by May’n At first – and even second and third – glance, there are a striking number of parallels between Blood Lad and Hataraku Maou-sama. In addition to a regular guy demon lord as the main character, there’s a machine-gun humor derived from a […] Read more
A new episode of Kingdom? That must mean new cast members, then. Once again Kingdom delivers up a big, sprawling episode that serves notice that this series is telling the story with the widest scope of any anime on the air. There are times when I’m concerned it might be […] Read more
If you were expecting Togashi to keep the morality of this arc simple, you were definitely barking up the wrong tree. The guy doesn’t do simple. There was really no way the “Chimera Ant” arc could remain as relentlessly dark and morose as it was for it’s first ten episodes […] Read more
Genshiken is back, though seemingly largely unnoticed. I remember this series being fairly popular back in the day (it even spun off its own fictional anime, Kujibiki Unbalance), but it placed similarly low in both the LiA and RC preview polls and no one seems to be talking about it […] Read more
Star-crossed lovers, indeed. Summer means many things in Japan – cicadas, sweltering heat, fireworks, yukata – and the Tanabata Festival is one of the most important to the Japanese people. Imported from China in the 8th Century, this is possibly the most romantic of all the big Japanese festivals – […] Read more
In case you missed it, NoitaminA revealed their plans for the rest of the year yesterday. Original series from NoitaminA are always welcome (any NoitaminA series are welcome at this stage), as is the news that Gin no Saji will be getting a second cour. Still, there are so many […] Read more
It’s a good day for Silver Spoon. The results are in, and it’s Gin no Saji (which was just announced as a split-cour series, with a second cour coming in Janurary) coming out on top. Not a huge surprise given the readership here. If anything did surprise me it’s how […] Read more
Ah, Kishi-san, Uezu-san – somehow it feels as if we’ve met here before. Well, that had some of the best WTF factor of any series I’ve seen for a while. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried to get into a game adaptation by this director/writer team – […] Read more
Anime’s fanfiction all grown-up is back for another season. Senki Zesshou Symphogear is another of those series that was pretty close to my cutoff point for blogging more than once, which makes the decision on the sequel a little iffy. I liked it a fair amount, but never really loved […] Read more