Now, that was more like it – a real return to form for MPD this week. While this was certainly the most serious episode so far, it was much needed after the last couple of weeks – and there were still plenty of LOL moments. Among other things, we got […] Read more
Baby steps, I suppose. Things are starting to get mildly interesting at last, though I’d be lying if I said I was wildly enthusiastic about this latest episode of Blood-C. It’s certainly been clear for a while that Saya was being gaslighted by the town, but whatever doubt there was […] Read more
Looks like happy happy funtime is over… Read more
Please head on over to RC and check out my review of No.6, No.5. After all – you’re the most important person in the world to me… Read more
It’s pretty rare for a show to make me feel genuinely emotional this early on, without doing anything especially dramatic. Usagi Drop just gets it right, somehow – there’s a feeling of truth that pervades the material and gives seemingly mundane events weight. The headline event of the week was […] Read more
Here’s a very cool image from Thomas Romain’s Picasa gallery (the rest of the gallery is cool, too). Read more
I think it’s pretty safe to assume most people are going to consider this a mediocre episode by Steins;Gate standards – as high as those are – but I’m going to disagree for a number of reasons. Maybe I’ve become so attached to this show that I’ve lost some of […] Read more
In this era of “genre” dominating seemingly all anime discussions, sometimes a series comes along that’s just a good, solid anime. It does things you can’t do in live-action, dabbles in sci-fi as anime used to do so often, and offers a well-produced final product with genuinely interest characters and […] Read more
Head over to RC and check out my blog post for Natsume Yuujinchou San, episode 5. You never know who might be there already… Read more
Nurarihyon no Mago remains firmly rooted in the early 17th Century in this episode, concluding the Hagoromo-Gitsune flashback with a good deal of action and gore by this show’s standards. What this mini-arc was for, in the end, was to set up the events of the present day and Hagoromo-Gitsune’s […] Read more