The folks behind Kamisama no Memochou must be thrilled, because the series hasn’t gotten this much free pub since the anime went off the air. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – 03 It struck me this week that Haiyore! is really sort of cheating – in a way, they’ve found a loophole […] Read more
“And Now His Watch is Ended” This week Game of Thrones offers up yet more of what we’ve come to expect from it with startling regularity: brutality, brilliant dialogue, new characters, amazing actors, lots of gore and an hour that feels like ten minutes. It also offers us the usual […] Read more
With each masterpiece of an episode, Suisei no Gargantia is starting to convince me that Urobuchi Gen may finally have harnessed his powers as a force for good. This is a pretty good season on the whole, and certainly presents a crowded field of shows, but things are starting to […] Read more
“Hide” Finally, a month in, we have our first nearly-great episode of Doctor Who this season. Neil Cross returns with his second Who story in three weeks, and happily this one is far better than the middling “Rings of Akhenaten”. Haunted houses have been pretty fertile territory for this series […] Read more
It’s pretty rare in TV anime that we truly see history being made, but this is one of those moments when we do. OP3 Sequence: In some ways, you could almost say that the 75 episodes of Hunter X Hunter Madhouse has produced have all been the prologue, leading up […] Read more
I still can’t quite figure out where this season of Oreimo is headed. I don’t really know what to make of this episode as it relates to the rest of the series – it felt very much like a side story or extra. I’ve also never been much of a […] Read more
An enjoyable episode on the whole, but there’s some pretty freaky stuff going on with Shingeki no Kyojin. Some folks questioned why I once referred to Shingeki as science-fiction, but after this episode I’ll stand my ground. How else besides time travel do you explain Mikasa suddenly being a 35 […] Read more
The Three-episode rule isn’t cutting it. Ginga Kikotai Majestic Prince – 03 To be brutally honest, part of me was hoping Majestic Prince would completely lose me this week and I’d be able to drop it – at least from blogging – with no reservations. My weekends are looking crazy […] Read more
Watching this season of Chihayafuru has become a sort of exquisite torture. What would happen if an anime did an entire Karuta tournament in real-time? That’s what this team competition is starting to feel like. No one is a bigger fan of the buildup episode in sports anime than I […] Read more
I sense there’s a love triangle forming here, but I’m, not quite sure who the third member is. I didn’t love this episode of Hataraku Maou-sama quite as much as the first two, for the simple reason that it didn’t make me laugh quite so much. But it was still […] Read more