Yes, it’s time for one of our occasional strolls down memory lane all the way back to 1964. There’s something about the utter simplicity of Shouwa Monogatari that never fails to move me. As someone who grew up in a household where the next rent check and sometimes even the […] Read more
This was the week Zetman showed just how excellent it could be when its pacing was dialed back a few notches. As you know I’ve liked this show from the very beginning, and always felt the sense that we were only skimming the surface of how great it could be. It was […] Read more
As a fellow man I started to worry about Shun a long time ago. Kimi to Boku 2 – 08 Another excellent and very funny episode of KtB this week, and something of a return to the slightly bent quality the series has displayed at times. It seems that this […] Read more
I dare anyone to watch a few episodes of this show and not love it. Because if you don’t, your cold, dead heart has surely shriveled to the size of a prune. I can say after 7 episodes that Ginga e Kickoff pretty much as every base covered (sorry, wrong […] Read more
“The Prince of Winterfell” I’ve had a pretty good idea of where this season was going to end for a while, with a couple of backup possibilities. But with the ever-increasing array of changes this adaptation was making I was really starting to doubt myself. Now, we have an episode […] Read more
It’s the small, almost unnoticed moments that make Hyouka stand apart from the crowd. After five episodes I can’t honestly say there’s any single element of Hyouka that blows me away in terms of plot or character. The characters are all more or less safely within the constraints of their […] Read more
100% of his shots go in? Sign that kid up! OK, full Shounen Jump goggles are definitely on with Kuroko no Basuke. The Generation of Miracles is aptly named if one of their members never misses a shot – and the laws of shounen being what they are, he’s likely […] Read more
If the whole astronaut thing fizzles out, maybe Mutta can turn to Karuta. There’s an old, old saying – “It’s better to be lucky than good”. In my experience it’s true more often than not, but for someone like Mutta who’s spent his whole life trying (with some success) to […] Read more
I’m beginning to have my doubts as to just who the title of this series refers to… MGX continues to be strange and wonderful, quite difficult to pin down (what genre is this, for example?) but with quite a feeling of universality despite that. Ueshiba-san has clearly figured out – […] Read more
How can Hisoka be so bad, but still be so good? This was a very different sort of episode for H x H, I think. Virtually no Gon or Killua, for starters. In many ways it almost seemed to play out in slow motion at times, which is actually pretty […] Read more