Sometimes in an anime, a character will say something that’s been obvious to the reader all along, but never muttered aloud on screen. The interesting part comes in seeing how the characters react to it. I’d say that Marco has the honesty of the doomed, but he was pretty much […] Read more
Ewww – you got Kaji Yuuki in my Shana… Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam – 15 Try to imagine the “Star Wars” prequels if Jar Jar Binks had been the main character, and you have a pretty good notion of why Last Exile’s sequel is simply unable to take flight. […] Read more
Tanto was serialized? That’s the most depressing “good news” ever. It’s looking inevitable that the crap gag manga (well, it is making me gag) is going to swallow up the rest of this season and deprive us of any coolness or GAR from Ashirogi Muto. No good manga from the […] Read more
I confess, if you floated the proposition two months ago that Hunter X Hunter was going to be one of the better series airing as we entered February, I would have been highly skeptical. But you’d have been right, and I’d have been wrong. I’d also have been skeptical that […] Read more
I really need to reverse the order of my schoolgirl sci-fi Saturday shows, because watching Mouretsu Pirates after Senshogear is like sipping a delicate Sancerre after downing a big tumbler of Talisker single malt… Wait, did Ririka really just say “Live long and prosper?” So, at long last, we have […] Read more
Symphogear is wild, manic, out of control and I don’t think there’s any denying that sometimes it’s a mess. But it sure is a hell of a lot of fun. The low ebb for the episode was dispensed with pretty early – that scene with the nude blonde on the […] Read more
A full-on time skip and a lot of hamburgers later, Area no Kishi has really reshuffled the deck. First off, good call to those of you that made it – the heavyset kid in the preview was indeed Araki Ryuichi 2.0 (Ishida Akira, seemingly busier than he’s ever been). That’s […] Read more
After 15 episodes, I think we need to confront the possibility that Guilty Crown has figured it out, and is turning into the show we all hoped it would be. No no, it’s not perfect. From a logic standpoint, the whole notion of the red wall closing around the school […] Read more
There are a whole lot of contrasts at work with the premiere of Black Rock Shooter, both within the episode itself and me as a viewer. One of the disadvantages of being a one-man operation like this site, as opposed to a staff of writers like Random Curiosity, is that […] Read more
Now let me get this straight – Junichi fell asleep in that position? That, I must confess, is quite pathetic. It’s no surprise that my interest in the romantic side of this series picked up a little this week, as Nanasaski Ai was my favorite among all the non-Divine girls […] Read more