If you want intrigue and mystery, this episode of AO should be your one-stop shopping for the week. I’ve enjoyed the world-building episodes of the last several weeks (and I’ll gladly fight the legions who disagree with me), but I was strongly inclined to believe we were about to see a […] Read more
Don’t ask me how it happened, but Lost in America’s Cinderella tourney journey continues – we got past SSAB and earned a place in the Yellow Bracket finals against Canne’s anime review blog. The Endless Elite Eight match goes live on Friday 6/29/12 at the usual 2000 UTC Update: We’re […] Read more
Well, there goes the mystique… I recently participated in the RC Spring Retrospective podcast. I should probably subscribe to the notion that the less people know about me the better off I am, but should you for some reason wish to actually hear me talk about anime, click on the […] Read more
As much as Sankarea has stymied my attempts to understand it at every turn, it can be no surprise that it ended in a stubbornly mysterious manner. Sankarea is definitely a series that proved the old “don’t judge a book by its cover” adage (and MGX is certainly another). With […] Read more
Any anime fan should fervently hope that Watanabe Shinichiro doesn’t wait nearly so long to direct his next TV anime. As a viewer, my relationship with Sakamichi no Apollon has been a lot more complicated than it has with its NoitaminA stable-mate, Tsuritama. I think Sakamichi’s highs have been the […] Read more
Whatever else you might think of the final episode – or of the eleven that preceded it – I think it’s hard to argue that Watanabe-sensei isn’t a directorial genius of the first order. It wouldn’t be unfair to say I went into this final episode with a good deal of trepidation. […] Read more
If you distilled pure happiness into 22 weekly minutes of sight and sound, you’d have something a lot like Tsuritama. There was an interesting moment during a Twitter Q & A today where someone asked the Tsuritama staff if they had any belief that the show would be commercially successful. […] Read more
What’s the worst thing about falling in love with an anime like Tsuritama? It ends. Leave it to the show that got pretty much everything right to triumph over the top boss that menaces every anime with aspirations – the ending. Needless to say, endings are really, really, hard – […] Read more
A funny thing happened on the way to episode four of Kingdom… If you’ve been following my posts on this show, you know my biggest gripe has been with the excessive use of CGI in the scenes that one would normally not expect it. Well, there’s been a slow decrease […] Read more
As we end the first season of Jormungand – as we should, with Jonah and Koko squarely in focus – my thoughts are right where they were when I read the manga: there’s nothing else quite like this series. As is my usual practice I won’t do a “Series Review” […] Read more