This show really is out there where the buses don’t run. It’s no exaggeration to say I love Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge. It’t not perfect, but it’s special in so many ways. This is one of the most fearless series I can remember in that it seems willing to […] Read more
“First Voice/Love” If you’ve been reading my posts on Hourou Musuko, you know that I’ve commented a few times that it felt to me as if Takako-sensei were getting ready to bring the manga to a close. Well, it’s confirmed – the August issue of Comic Beam is going to […] Read more
It’s a tough time to be a big story in anime. We’ve just had the conclusion of one anime that really suffered from its one-cour length, Red Data Girl – though it managed to be one of the better shows of the season anyway – and we’re staring right down […] Read more
It’s nice to be right from time to time. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – 09 Another fairly forgettable episode of Haiyore this week, though it was just about saved with some more fireworks between Kuuko and Mahiro there at the end. I think one issue with this series is that among […] Read more
“Mhysa” Game of Thrones is a great series, but there’s one awful thing about it – waiting almost ten months between seasons. Of course, that beats waiting seven years between books… It’s been a sort of tradition for GoT to go big in the 9th episode, then make the season […] Read more
One way or another, Urobuchi Gen’s genes are showing through. I think, fundamentally, Suisei no Gargantia is proving to be more like an Urobuchi Gen series than it might have looked a few weeks ago – but not because of the requisite butchery (though last week’s calimari-bake was pretty grisly). […] Read more
Matsuri season powers on. I paid a visit to Asakusabashi this evening for the conclusion of the Torigoe Shrine Festival, which is known for having the heaviest mikoshi in Tokyo. It’s known as the Sengan Mikoshi (“four-ton mikoshi”, these being short tons) and groups of mostly men (and a few […] Read more
Crumbs – is this really the show I liked so much in the first season? No, I haven’t spoiled myself on the ending (apart from snarky hints from trolls who think they’re being clever with non-spoiler spoiler comments) – though it appears most of the anime audience has by now. […] Read more
For the first time this week, Hunter X Hunter put me in mind of The Princess Bride. I’m a big fan of anime characters who don’t speak all that much, but when they do you damn well better listen. Kaitou is rapidly stamping himself as one of those. He’s a […] Read more
It almost feels as if the series just got started, strange as that sounds. A 60-episode prologue, in an era when most anime are 1/5 that long in total? Yeah, an awful lot has happened (though no one will ever accuse Uchuu Kyoudai of being fast-paced) but I think a […] Read more