There now, Asread – you didn’t need luminescent pink eyes to show that Yuno was batcrap insane this week, did you? The pieces are slowly but surely starting to come together on Mirai Nikki as we close out the first half of its run. Despite the fact that the break […] Read more
I think JC Staff, realizing that too much time has passed for “Shana” to ever return to its glory days as a commercial success, has pretty well decided to stop worrying and love the bomb. At this point they don’t seem too concerned with anything except throwing as much Shana-porn […] Read more
It’s awards season, and a good time to finish my look back on 2011 with our own “Oscars” for the year in anime. And the winners are… Best Song: “Cras numquam scire” by Yucca – Dantalian no Shoka OP It’s hard to top “Secret Base” from AnoHana, but this gorgeous […] Read more
Not a whole lot to say here, as our first GC in two weeks is a one-hour recap of the first cour with no new footage. As some raw watchers have pointed out, it might say something about the writing here that a one-hour special was probably a better telling […] Read more
Anyone who’s read “The Most Dangerous Game” will certainly feel right at home with the premise of H x H 13, the first episode of new material in three weeks. As usual, the hunter exam is really more about mind games than physical challenges, though the latter are certainly a […] Read more
I wouldn’t say Bodacious Space Pirates was one of my most anticipated series of the Winter, but it was certainly one I was looking forward to. And given the studio, staff and premise, it delivered just about what I expected. OP: “Mōretsu Uchū Kōkyōkyoku – Dai-Shichi Gakushō ‘Mugen no Ai’” […] Read more
Dammit, I was really thinking this might be an easy season for me as long as something that wasn’t on my watch list didn’t crack the rotation. Well… Honestly, I went into this one pretty much cold turkey. I knew Divine from RC liked it a lot, but SenZeSym (copyright […] Read more
I’ve been pretty damn happy with my last two sleeper picks, Kamisama Dolls and Chihayafuru. So how does Winter’s candidate fare? OP: “Higher Ground” (ハイヤーグラウンド) by SRS There are an awful lot of reasons to hope Area no Kishi might be something special. The manga is extremely well-regarded, penned […] Read more
Kill me Baby – 01 Well, that was pretty dumb. After a historically, epically awful OP, Kill me Baby is pretty much 22 minutes of one lame schoolgirl assassin joke after another. In some ways it reminds me of Seitokai Yakuindomo with ninja jokes substituted for sex jokes. It’s not […] Read more
This is a sequel I’m not at all sure was necessary, but at least I’d say the first episode was pretty consistent with the first season quality-wise. OP: “Check My Soul” by azusa While I found S1 of Amagami SS to be fairly average for the most part, what set […] Read more