Ushio and Tora rebounds nicely this week, despite the obvious handicap. I wasn’t as keen on last week’s episode of Ushio to Tora as I was the first seven, though it’s all relative – even weak UshiTora is above-average anime. But it wasn’t what I’ve come to expect from this […] Read more
I wouldn’t mind hearing from the cat every once in a while – why hire Hayami Sho if you aren’t going to use him? Vote Borscht, 2015. So anyway, after a whiplash-inducing quality swing the last two weeks, we got an episode here that was somewhere in the middle. I […] Read more
Did my eyes deceive me, or did things just work out for Rinne in the end? It’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, but I think there’s a kind of commonality between Kyoukai no Rinne and Jitsu wa Watash wa. While the style of humor could hardly be more different, both […] Read more
Well, that was definitely worth the wait. After 20 episodes of build-up, the moment has finally come. Happily, Ore Monogatari wasn’t trolling us, and we really did get an episode about Suna’s heart (I had a nagging fear right up to the end that we were being teased and tortured). […] Read more
As anime goes, it just doesn’t get much more unapologetically stupid than Jitsu wa Watashi wa Episode 8. I’m down with that. Read more
Things just got really interesting in Diamond no Ace… Read more
It’s not easy being a prince, but… All in all this was yet another excellent episode of Akagami no Shirayukihime, which is as singularly character-driven as any show we’ve seen for some time. I think it practically exemplifies the term, in fact, and given that I tend to prefer anime […] Read more
Seriously, Arslan – that face isn’t ringing any bells by now? I must say it’s been a great month for Arslan Senki, which has really come into its own over the last few episodes. I was hugely impressed by the fact that the series was subtly setting up the dilemma […] Read more
It’s a big ‘ol four-man, multinational podcast on RC this week, which I was pleased to host – stop on by and give it a listen. Read more
If last week’s magic word was “why”, this week it seems to be “family”. If this week’s episode of Gangsta wasn’t quite as transcendent as its very best have been, it was still awfully good. There are so many layers to this story that it’s hard not to be acutely […] Read more