There’s an ugly side to love that’s never far from the surface, especially in the full splendor of youth. What a dramatic change of pace this was from last week’s blockbuster, game-changer of an episode. Possessiveness is a theme that’s been touched on before in MGX, but not with the […] Read more
List of people not to piss off: 2. Gon Freecss It’s interesting to muse on just who the scarier character is, Gon or Killua. On the surface it’s easy to say Killua. He’s an assassin by training, with what can only be called an erratic moral compass. He’s a master […] Read more
“When Extremes Meet” MeeSami is born? Smooth Man, smooth – “You’re pretty, can I have some of your hair?” is surely the perfect pickup line. Will this beautiful lady be able to resist Meelo’s charms? Indeed, I thought all of the Tenzin children were quite humorous and charming this week […] Read more
After 22 episodes of buildup, it looks like it’s finally time for Urobuchi-san to start dishing out the despair for real. This was really the first episode since before the Kiritsugu side-story that I really felt Fate/Zero was firing on all cylinders. As a whole I think it’s lost a […] Read more
No complaints here – that was non-stop fun from beginning to end. Whatever malaise came over this series for a few episodes – I don’t know if it was the show or me – seems to have lifted, because the last couple of episodes have recaptured the briskly entertaining spark […] Read more
Even for a series as dark as this one, Lupin went to some pretty dark places this week. Yes it was an Okada script this week, and certainly a provocative and interesting one – a massive improvement over the last episode she wrote personally. I must say, though, that the […] Read more
It’s ironic that Eureka Seven AO is the first series in almost two years to make me question whether I really wanted to be blogging at all. Sorry, Haters – I’m not jumping ship. I still love AO, and that’s just the problem. For some reason the overwhelming negativity I […] Read more
Yes, in the case of Sankarea I’m an abject hypocrite. If hypocrisy bothers you, you might want to just stop here… So all the stuff I said about the Ranko episode two weeks ago – about it being an odd choice to do an entire episode about a side character […] Read more
And lo, with the simple question “Would you like a persimmon?” was the fujoshi movement born in Kyushu, 1967… This was a seemingly low-key episode after the frenetic drama of last week, but my sense is of a locomotive bearing relentlessly down on the conclusion suggested by the ED. The […] Read more
Dat hair… Tsuritama, as usual, proves pretty adept at jerking my emotions around. It has an interesting habit of giving you massive amounts of exposition and plot development in short bursts, and spending the rest of the time squarely focused on developing the character interactions at a leisurely pace. What […] Read more