That’s quite a character turnaround for Kota in the last couple of episodes. I think Masaru-chan-san may just be one of the most interesting coach characters in sports anime (and it certainly doesn’t hurt that he’s voiced by a stalwart like Koyama Rikiya). He’s a complicated person rather than a […] Read more
The ugly pants – and one of the best male leads in harem comedy – are back. A quick note on my plans for this show: it appears that S2 of Seitokai no Ichizon is going to be a web-only broadcast this season, on Niconico (the same as Ebiten) followed […] Read more
No slam dunk answers to make my decision easy here, I’m afraid… It does seem safe to say most of you don’t want short posts and more series, so I’ll keep that in mind. If I’m Forced to Cut Back on Blogging Time During My Move to Japan, How Should […] Read more
When a note-faithful adaptation of a brilliant manga opens a season with two letter-perfect episodes, it’s hard not to be optimistic about what’s to come. *This is a special dual post with Zephyr from RC, my fellow Jormungand fan… I loved the first season of Jormungand, but there were times […] Read more
That button is definitely the one that makes me laugh. I haven’t forgotten about this OVA, though the post is so late I wouldn’t blame anyone who thought otherwise. While we wait for the announcement of the second season for the surprise hit of 2012 – I’m surprised we haven’t […] Read more
No pics for you today, just a brief check-in. Today was momentous in that for the first time, I received formal instruction in Kanji – and I’ll tell you, it feels like the beginning of a long, wonderful and terrible journey. I knew a few already from self-learning but still, […] Read more
This is what happens when a shounen manga about shounen manga gets serious about being a shounen manga. While this was a pretty busy episode, it pretty much came down to Niizuma dominating the narrative. He tends to do that whenever he’s on-screen anyway, but that’s usually in short bursts […] Read more
Things appear to have gotten a lot more complicated here. It’s interesting that I’ve come to like the male lead here better than the one in Sukitte, because that’s certainly not what one might have expected after the first episode. But my initial take on Haru seems to have been […] Read more
No question about it – there are a lot of series this season that aren’t separated by whole lot in terms of quality. Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – 02 One of the reasons it’s so hard to settle on a blogging schedule this season is my current living situation, […] Read more
Any way you look at it the lead story in the Astral Ocean OVA is Ao in a dress, but there are actually a couple of semi-serious moments along the way. Safe to say that Jungfrau no Hanabana-tachi falls squarely in the class of OVAs that place humor as the […] Read more