Shakugan no Shana III – 11 Shakugan no Shana has really hit its stride, with the last few episodes offering up arguably the best run since the first season. I confess, I didn’t expect Margery and Satou to be the first main couple to get it on, but since it’s […] Read more
I must confess, I’m taking a certain sadistic delight in watching fans of the 1999 series complain about this one. I can only imagine that a lot of viewers were probably turned off by the first half of this week’s H x H. To pace the episode so that the […] Read more
Satou may have lost his place in the OP sequence to Orthros, but at least the newest credited cast member is someone we can all agree on – Pocari Sweat. Seriously, that unfortunately named but delicious beverage is my life’s blood when I’m traveling in Japan. It really does seem […] Read more
This week’s Bakuman is officially the first anime episode of the season that had me yelling at the screen… I hate to keep harping on this, but Miura is a bad editor. He’s not only a man of poor taste, but he’s immature and completely unprofessional. And I’m now supposed […] Read more
No current series can make a simple conversation into high art like this one can. But I’ve never felt frustrated by the lack of foreknowledge of the mythos more acutely than this week. So here’s what the episode boiled down to – and kudos to ufotable for correctly thinking they […] Read more
Inami hairclip meter this week: leeks and baseball. And Maya makes her first post-ED appearance of the season – but sadly, still no check for Kawase Akiko. It’s fair to say Working has been on a huge roll lately, and the last month of episodes might just be the best […] Read more
Oh, Mawaru Penguin Drum – how is it that you can make me so angry and yet totally captivate me a the same time? Why can’t I quit you, Ikuhara? If I cared to, I could rattle off a laundry list of major – major – issues I have with […] Read more
It’s a shame more people aren’t watching UN-GO, because it’s delivering some of the smartest and most interesting non-commercial anime in ages. I wasn’t wild about this series for the first couple of weeks, but to say it’s grown on me would be an understatement. If this turns out to be the […] Read more
That has to be one of the more natural crossovers in recent anime history. I suppose people are going to react to this episode based on which sort of Haganai they like. For me, this was very good stuff, even though I’ll be the first to confess it was some […] Read more
Whatever else you might think about this episode, there’s no denying it was eventful. And I think it’s one that’s going to polarize the fans quite a bit. As anyone in P.R. will tell you, that’s better than having them not care one way or the other. I’ve mentioned in the […] Read more