I can’t imagine there were a whole lot of readers or viewers who anticipated the way this arc was going to end. In many ways, I feel as if “Castle of Lies” is a throwback to the first season of Jormungand. This is a story that never makes it too […] Read more
These are certainly two interesting series, though the one with only one cour to work with is revealing its charms with considerably more urgency than the one that figures to be a fixture for a while. Magi – 06 Another perfectly competent and well-produced edition of Magi this week, though […] Read more
You can consider this an unpaid commercial for the best series almost none of you are watching. I’m going to ask the LiA readers to bear with me for a bit, because I’ve been thinking for a while of using the bully pulpit of RC for a little preaching about Ginga e […] Read more
“They’re So Noisy” No question about it, an Adachi baseball manga in a monthly magazine is a bit of a torture. Mix, as best I can describe it, continues apace. It’s excellent – vintage Adachi, and he’s clearly invigorated being back on his most familiar ground. But we’re no closer […] Read more
That episode didn’t do much to clarify my uncertainty over what sort of series Sakurasou intends to be over the next few months. I might be swimming upstream on this, but the Nanami arc felt like a step backwards to me. It’s not so much that the last couple of […] Read more
No question about it – in terms of charm and originality, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is the most interesting shoujo romance to come along in quite some time. There are a lot of reasons why I find this show so appealing, starting with the animation and the really creative and even […] Read more
Who would have thought back in Season One that we’d be hearing complaints about Bakuman moving too fast… I happened to glance at one of the Bakuman discussion boards, something I try not to do before I’ve watched the new episode of a series, so I knew there were quite a few […] Read more
I guess it can’t be a shoujo romance without a serious love rival to deal with. Enter Megu, Kitagawa Megumi (Kotobuki Minako) who may be the designated villain of the piece or a well-meaning distraction on the romantic journey of out two leads. Megu is a model, quite popular and […] Read more
Any week that marks the return of Evangeline Yammamoto is off to a good start. Btooom! – 06 Btooom is a classic dilemma – I really want to dislike it, but I’m fairly engrossed every time I watch it (when I’m not just grossed, anyway). It’s a well-made action thriller, […] Read more
Wow – that conclusion sure arrived a lot faster than I expected. As with just about everything else with Little Busters!, I’m very much of two minds about this episode, and the entire Komari arc (both episodes of it). On the one hand I can very much feel myself being […] Read more