All in all Madhouse does a pretty good job here, delivering a non-ending that serves the purpose with few surprises. Certainly, there were multiple challenges facing the anime staff in crafting this episode. Not only is this a one-cour anime adapting a manga that covers nine volumes, but it’s an […] Read more
Give Sukitte some credit for this: it never misses its cues. My feelings about Megu-tan as summarized in last week’s post: I don’t wish her any ill, but I just don’t care about her very much and and her likely tearful redemption next week seems like an anti-climactic way to […] Read more
In some ways, this may just be the hardest blog post I’ve ever had to write. I’m really walking on eggshells with this one. It’s a bit of a quandary trying to figure out what I can and can’t say, because it’s hard to separate what I know because I […] Read more
Sometimes even in the darkest stories, you can find a glimmer of hope somewhere. So far that isn’t the case with Shin Sekai Yori. This series continues to be both the most disturbing and most heartbreaking of the season for me. The premise in fantastical, no doubt, but it’s been […] Read more
If you’re a fan of NoitaminA – and I’m one of the biggest – this goes down as one of the best and worst days of the year. It seems odd to be depressed about the NoitaminA block on a day when both halves of Production I.G.’s entry delivered standout, […] Read more
Now that’s how you kick things up a notch. It seems quite fitting that Production I.G. should have cranked out this episode on a day when so many nut-jobs and gullible lost souls are praying for an ancient prediction that doesn’t even predict the end of the world to end […] Read more
If I know anything, it’s that when two trees throw down, you do not want to get in the way. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the […] Read more
For those interested, my entry in Random Curiosity’s “12 Days of Anime” series has been posted. Read more
Be careful – this is a series that will crawl inside your consciousness and build a nest before you realize it. If I’d done a second “Honorable Mention” post for 2012 this show would have been it. In my psyche it fills a very similar role to the one Nekogami […] Read more
Without question, no other anime has gotten so much mileage out of the soujiki. I was planning on writing about Shirokuma later tonight under a separate heading, and since so much of what I planned to say about this episode dovetails with what I planned to say in the first […] Read more