Probably the best episode of Little Busters! so far, though that should hardly come as a surprise. It would be easy to sum up the strength of this episode with “Duh – it’s Kud!” And while our little Euro-Asian hybrid is without question the most entertaining of all the girls […] Read more
I finally found a more mismatched show to pair with Btooom! Kamisama Hajimemashita – 08 Even when Kamisama Hajimemashita is being serious, it can’t help being funny. This week every scene involving Mikage and his sidekick Otohiko (Takahashi Hiroki) was a riot. Otohiko is yet another in a line of […] Read more
BONES really has the time travel bug lately… This was another magnificently over-the-top episode for Zetsuen no Tempest, which isn’t satisfied with its own florid dialogue – it’s actually quoting soliloquies from The Bard directly of late. Interestingly, while the superficial template was obviously “The Tempest”, most of the lifted […] Read more
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that cliffhanger coming. The decline of public interest in the space program has been the source of a lot of sadness for me over the years. There was once a time when Americans were glued to their TV screens every time anything NASA-related […] Read more
This edition is all about Tokyo conspiring to keep me from getting too comfortable. We had an earthquake here yesterday, one of about 4 or 5 since I’ve been here that have been strong enough to really feel. This one, though, was the first one that’s really caught my attention. […] Read more
Shin Sekai Yori is once again comfortably the best series of the season. There’s a sense of foreboding that runs through “From the New World” that makes it much scarier and more unsettling that most shows with more violence and conventional horror trappings. It’s tempting to say the relatively idyllic […] Read more
Crappy internet and too much to do have severely constrained my ability to consistently update, especially with the non-anime stuff. I have a ton of pics and video, but the latter especially may end up not getting posted until I finally get a stable and non-throttled connection. I made a […] Read more
The art of the conversation – there’s no one in anime who does it quite like Urobuchi Gen. There are very few writers in anime whose stature is such that they effectively become the centerpiece of any any series they’re involved in – and often, it’s for the wrong reasons. […] Read more
The internet really is a wonderful resource. Thanks to the magic of Google and the mass of tubes and wires that make up the interwebs, we at last have an answer as to what the mysterious “Flatus Patsy” is. Namely, an effort to translate something hopelessly untranslatable. Apparently during the […] Read more
So, yeah – remember that whole end of the solar system thing? Still happening. Robotics;Notes has definitely been a slow build, but I certainly don’t hold that against it. It’s an excellent series, and I suspect it’s only when it’s complete that viewers will realize just how well-written and expertly-directed […] Read more