Why does everyone make this anime thing out to be so hard? Just do it like that. I almost feel as if I shouldn’t defile this episode by even trying to talk about it, but I guess that’s my job – and the hard part at the moment is to […] Read more
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Shirokuma Café – 04
Trying to explain what makes Shirokuma Café so funny is like trying to… Well, it’s hard. But comedy is always hard to explain, and this is funny – at least to me. Here’s what I laughed especially hard at this week: Penguin-san’s inability to “pinch zoom” his sumafo – and […] Read more
Nekogami Yaoyorozu – OVA
“Hanami Ghostbusters” Once or twice a season (this time it’s Ginga e Kickoff and Shirokuma Café), there’s usually a show that wins you over with it’s simplicity – a show that just makes you feel good every time you watch it. It’s usually nothing fancy in terms of plot or […] Read more
Jormungand – 03
In case you hadn’t already figured it out from the first two episodes, Jormungand isn’t trying to win you over with gritty realism. In way ways, this chapter feels as if it’s the one where the series really begins. Without question this was the best episode of the first three […] Read more
Otoyomegatari – 23
“A Day in the Life” It says something about what a skilled writer Kaoru Mori is that she could write a chapter like this one, and have it be one of the best of the series. I doubt many authors would have even tried. To call this chapter a simple […] Read more
Soccer Tuesday – Area no Kishi, Ginga e Kickoff
Possession: Barcelona 72% Chelsea 28% Shots: Barcelona 25 Chelsea 7 Aggregate: Barcelona 2, Chelsea 3 Football is a funny game. Area no Kishi – 16 I’m still not quite sold on this whole Kakeru-Suguru possession side of the story. This time Kakeru hits his head (we saw that last week) […] Read more
Zetman – 04
No, it’s not Independence Day or Guy Fawkes Day – that noise you hear is the popping blood vessels of Zetman manga readers everywhere. Welcome to another time skip, which as far as I can tell encompasses about 35 chapters in addition to two years on-screen. Again, I’m glad not […] Read more
Video of the Day
I don’t make a habit of highlighting commercial videos often, but this one is pretty cool. Japanese commercials are incredibly creative and sometimes almost unbelievably weird. Note: this is not an endorsement of delicious Sapporo Beer (I’m more of a Belgian beer man myself) – just their creative team. Read more
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san – 03
No anime in recent memory has made me wish I still had my “Deities & Demigods (Cthulhu Edition) Handbook” like this one has. There’s not a whole lot to say about Haiyore! that hasn’t been said, really. It throws more self-referential humor around then any ten other series this year […] Read more