I’m beginning to wonder if my luck with Fate/Zero is starting to run out. I knew going in that I was in the minority with this series in having never read the LNs, and not having managed to stay with through F/SN to the finish. But for a season and […] Read more
“The Aftermath” Bryke have always been able to mine their own mythology for humor with considerable skill, but “No – not my Cabbage Corp!” was probably my biggest laugh line of “Korra” so far. You had to figure the Cabbage Merchant was going to make his appearance sooner or later, […] Read more
A pig and a ferret walk into a café… I’m still wondering about Aqua Current, who seems to be hiding a lot more than she’s revealing. I feel as if subtle hints are being dropped here – Haru “barely felt” her breast when he grabbed her. Her clothing – both […] Read more
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Let’s put last week’s unfortunate trainwreck behind us and move on, because Lupin III was pretty much back in its usual groove this week. Which is to say, it was sexy, stylish and funny while spinning an utterly preposterous story – this time […] Read more
Warning: Detour ahead. Sankarea has always been a show that wielded its many personalities like a billy club, but never more literally than this week. It transformed into a first-person narrated rumination by Wanko on the nature of the osananjimi relationship, with most of the episode spent in the distant […] Read more
The Truth is out there. There haven’t really been any lulls in this outstanding series so far, but there have been degrees of excellence – and I’d rank this episode up there with the very strongest episodes, which for me are the second (still the best overall) and the third. […] Read more
If you ask me what my favorite NoitaminA series this season is, my answer might have to be “What time is it?” Seriously – as a huge NoitaminA fan (albeit a disappointed one lately) I don’t say it lightly, but this is the best pair of shows the block has […] Read more
The questions sure piled up this week, but there weren’t many answers to go with them. A funny thing happened without my really realizing it – in spite of all the terrific anime this spring, Tsuritama became my favorite new series. It’s certainly the one I look forward to most […] Read more
Grizzly-san ED stays. He’s bad to the bone. It occurs to me, watching this week’s Shirokuma Café, that Polar Bear may be one of the biggest trolls in anime since Prince Baka from Level E, and the puns are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s the way he, Panda-kun […] Read more
Time for a brief trip to the world of Japanese Cinema… Kore-eda Hirokazu isn’t a name that’ll be familiar to any but the most ardent art-house cinema buffs or serious Japanese culture geeks – but it should be. He’s a documentary trained director who’s turned his talents to narrative films that are […] Read more