In the battle of epic island arcs, Shounen Sunday vs. Shounen Jump, Fairy Tail vs. Hunter x Hunter, Madhouse takes the lead over A-1 Pictures with the best episode of H x H and one of the best anime episodes of a young 2012. That was just about the culmination […] Read more
This was the week that Bodacious Space Pirates finally got off the ground, but alas that’s truer in the literal sense than in the dramatic. To be blunt, I don’t really have all that much to say about this series. It’s unusual to be both so conflicted and so ambivalent […] Read more
That was the best episode of “Fam” for a while, because it was focused squarely on what the show is best at, by far – the machinations of Luscinia and the Ades Federation, lots of big space battles, and the ugly side of global power politics. When the series uses […] Read more
Events continue to barrel along at a breakneck pace, but my suspicion is now that “that” has happened, things are going to slow down quite a bit – and we’re going to find out just how good a series Area no Kishi is. Or isn’t. There are a lot of […] Read more
I almost used the same tagline I did last week, because it’s still true – Senshogear is still a mess, but there’s something about it that’s working for me. Yes, I did notice the shocking lapses in animation quality, especially in the second half of the episode. The scene where […] Read more
Considering how bland the first season’s Rihoko arc was, this was a surprisingly entertaining episode. Amagami is interesting in that among it’s 6-heroine omnibus format, we have not one but two osananajimis. Of the two, Rihoko had the least interesting first season, and she seems much more hopelessly mired in […] Read more
Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society’s Animation Festival, I was able to attend a screening of the FMA film tonight. After a harrowing odyssey of bizarre Sunday-night traffic that turned a normally 20-minute drive into a 90-minute serpentine through unfamiliar surface streets, I found a parking space and pulled […] Read more
What a shame it is that among the most interesting Winter 2012 series, one is three episodes and the other is three minutes. The latter, of course, is Recorder to Randoseru – a fairly interesting premise (in a silly way) that’s terribly unsuited to a three-minute format. The three episode […] Read more
I keep hoping Guilty Crown is going to do something to make me really like it and to bring some excitement to this NoitaminA block, but every time it seems to get a little momentum going it shoots itself in the foot. OP2: “The Everlasting Guilty Crown” by EGOIST To […] Read more