Hell hath no fury like an idiot scorned. Jumonji gets center-stage this week, which means his tunnel-visioned worldview gets to take Kyoukai no Rinne into some darkly comic places. Ageha’s arrival on the scene has liberated Tsubasa-kun from the onus of being the series’s biggest baka, but make no mistake, […] Read more
All about sports anime, as seen by Yours truly. More to come tomorrow… Read more
Is the the calm before the storm? Perhaps more accurately, the mild storm before the hurricane, because things were pretty lively in these two chapters of Chihayafuru. But it still felt very preliminary, and there’s a real sense that Suetsugu-sensei is setting up something bigger on the horizon. The most […] Read more
Still some room on that bubble. A brief post here, because I found this episode of Overlord to be kind of boring. It felt like by far the most generic MMORPG-Anime ep yet, an action episode in a series with mediocre animation and a clear-cut good vs. evil faceoff in […] Read more
Another one edges towards the edge of the bubble – but which way? Check out my MAL post (in a new tab!) to find out. And don’t forget to leave your comments right here! Read more
I’ve never actually had one, but watching Furuya pitch for eight innings seems to me the anime equivalent of a colonoscopy. More insight like that can be found in this week’s Diamond no Ace post on MAL. Read more
For my first feature article over at MAL, I thought I’d introduce myself with a partial list of some of my favorite under-appreciated anime of the last few years. Share some of yours here… Read more
Ramen for breakfast? Sign me up. Souma #16 is here. Read more
It’s the first weekly post over at MAL – please check it out! And remember – feel free to discuss the episode right here. Read more
Kid must be in an HMO… To start with, since I know you’re all thinking it I’ll stipulate to the fact that there’s no way that kid could have gotten out of the hospital so quickly and come to the match, even if it was just a temporary release. It […] Read more