I guess it’s the magic of Hataraku Maou-sama that it can be seemingly immersed in clichés, but somehow transcend them. After seven weeks, I’m convinced of at least one thing – Hataraku Maou-sama has the best collective voice work of the season. It starts of course with Ohsaka Ryouta as […] Read more
When it comes to Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge a lot is happening all the time, even when very little seems to be happening. Superficially, this appears to be the first real change-of-pace for Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge – a breather episode after the violent and severe school trip […] Read more
“You’re a Pitcher, Right?”/”I’m Glad” It appears as if Adachi-sensei is getting soft in his middle age. We finally got our tragedy, but the patient lived. Anyone who’s read enough Adachi manga knew that Mix was a ticking time bomb – something bad was bound to happen (or already be […] Read more
Change is the air, finally. This was probably the most interesting episode of Arata Kangatari so far – both in its own terms, and because it’s where we’re finally seeing some deviation from the manga. The anime is half over – as for the manga who knows (it’s about to […] Read more
The slow and steady climb up the season rankings continues for Red Data Girl. RDG is a pretty good representative of the old “Tortoise and the Hare” fable – the tortoise half, anyway. It was definitely a little slow out of gate, but where shows with flashier (and better, to […] Read more
I don’t think I reacted to this development in Haiyore! as I was intended to. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – 06 I don’t tend to think much of the episodes where Haiyore! Nyaruko-san tries to get serious, but this is one of the better examples so far. It certainly isn’t thanks […] Read more
“The Bear and the Maiden Fair” For the second week in a row, we got a fair amount of focus on the second-tier arcs in the TV storyline – and for the second straight week, I’m all in favor. But if I never see another scene of Theon being tortured […] Read more
More from Kanda Matsuri. I woke up to beautiful sunshine on Sunday morning, so I decided to go back for okawari from the Kanda Matsuri. Sunday is the day the local neighborhood groups in the “low city” – over 100 of them in total – bring their own mikoshi to […] Read more
Back on track, thank goodness, but I can’t help but be a little frustrated with Suisei no Gargantia. I’m somewhat torn after watching this episode. It was good, don’t get me wrong – not quite as good as the superb first 4 episodes of the series, but very good indeed. […] Read more
“Nightmare in Silver” How you feel about “Nightmare in Silver” may depend on how you measure it. In a vacuum, I think this was an excellent if flawed episode – a vacuum removed both from any real tie-in to the season-long mystery and from comparisons to Neil Gaiman’s previous Doctor […] Read more