Perhaps it’s clear now why it was so hard for me to write about Jormungand these last few weeks. I feel as though I can predict how the reaction to this ending is going to play out. Truth be told, there’s no why I can spin this in my head […] Read more
Animemiz is featuring Hikaru no Go in the “Manga Movable Feast” this month, a venture to which I’ve been privileged to contribute an article. If you love HnG like I do – or need a good reason to read a great manga – it’s well worth checking out. Read more
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, but mine was already pretty fond of this series before the latest information blackout. I’ll be honest – I’d already watched these episodes (and the next two) raw a while ago. So as a result I had a pretty good idea of […] Read more
Oklahoma isn’t the only place where the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye. Sakurasou is another series that probably had one more week to make up my mind for me one way or the other – and darned if it didn’t do a pretty good job of it. […] Read more
Since this is the last time I’m going to be able to say it about a TV episode, I’m going to repeat myself one more time – I love Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. Brains Base just delivers. They deliver with original series, they deliver with adaptations, and they even deliver with […] Read more
Holidays are a wonderful way to bring the differences between cultures into focus. I spent Christmas Eve in real Tokyo style – in a proper Japanese queue. I waited over an hour to slowly proceed through another Tokyo tradition – the “light-up”, this one at the Tokyo Midtown complex in […] Read more
Are those the unmistakable strains of magical realism I hear coming from the background? Well, it’s arrived at last – a “serious” episode, and the start of another character arc. Interestingly enough this was actually quite a funny episode in addition to that – arguably the most well-balanced and one […] Read more
It’s getting close to decision-time with Magi. I don’t know if Magi is taking an inter-seasonal break like most series, but it certainly didn’t go out of it’s way to generate a logical stopping point for the close of its first cour. We’re very much right in the middle of […] Read more
Of all people, it was Furuya-kun who best summed up this episode of Space Brothers. I was wondering how Uchuu Kyoudai could possibly follow up the emotional crescendo of last week’s episode, which hit me like a freight train. I should know by now not to doubt, because between the […] Read more
Seriously – did anyone doubt for a second that Gon would put out “Rock”? 60 episodes is something of a milestone for any anime, and as I marvel at yet another stellar episode it makes me inclined to reflect back over the last five cours. It’s frankly pretty amazing how […] Read more