I could lead this post with the same headline I used for Hunter X Hunter, but I wouldn’t mean in quite such a complimentary way. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since the first season of Oreimo graced our screens – though partly that feeling is because […] Read more
“The Rings of Akhaten” Neil Cross, the highly-acclaimed writer who created the BBC crime drama Luther, makes his initial foray into Doctor Who territory (he also wrote the episode that will air in two weeks) with an episode that takes him pretty far from his historical comfort zone. “Akhaten” stands […] Read more
Note to future returning armies – please watch this episode for a demonstration of how not to break the news to a mother. OP: “Guren no Yumiya” (紅蓮の弓矢) by Linked Horizon I think it was a pretty much a given that this was the most anticipated premiere of the season […] Read more
Muromi-san was just about what I expected, only half as much… Turns out Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san is a half-length anime – checking in at about 13 minutes with no ED sequence – which is a mild disappointment as I’d hoped it would be one of the few comedies worth pursuing […] Read more
It’s not too fruitful trying to find things to say about a recap episode. OP5: “Kienai E (消えない絵)” by Magokoro Brothers The best thing about this episode of Space Brothers is that there are a few minutes of new footage at the beginning. The worst is that it looks as […] Read more
Series like Ginga e Kickoff are a reminder of just how much an anime can come to mean to you after a while. I was looking forward very much to this finale, long-delayed from the original airing as it is – and yet, dreading it too. To be honest I […] Read more
It’s hard to do a sports episode any better than that one. Whatever your feelings about the direction Chihayafuru has gone this season, in the last two weeks I’ve think we’ve seen the worst and best sides of that change in focus. Coming off that rare stumble that made me […] Read more
Wow – where in the world to begin… In a way, it seems only fitting that Zexcs chose to bring a manga that revels in the ugliness of human nature with an incredibly ugly visual style. On the other, there’s no denying that Aku no Hana is a really, really […] Read more
My hope was that Yahari couldn’t possibly be as bad as it looked on paper, or else Brains Base would never have touched it. Thankfully, that turns out to be the case. Amnesia may have snapped their creative winning streak, but Brains Base is still one of very few studios […] Read more
Photo Kano is pretty much pure formula so far. The inbox is packed with premieres today, so this one is going to be pretty short because there really isn’t a whole lot to say. Photo Kano comes off as more generic than anything else in the first episode. There are […] Read more