There’s no question, Nurarihyon has stepped up in weight class from the first season. I hope enough viewers stuck around to see it. S2 is still heavy in flashback mode, as the entire episode is spent on the story of Nurarihyon and Princess Yo, in early 17th-Century Kyoto (and the […] Read more
One of the things I’ve loved about this series from the beginning – and there’s an awful lot of them – is the wonderful way it gets at the cultural differences between Europeans and Japanese without demeaning either. When Claude said, “It would be so much easier if she could […] Read more
A quick rundown on where things stand almost a month in: The Top Tier: Natsume Yuujinchou San Episodes Watched: 3 Rating: A Comments: No loss of quality here at all. Great director, great studio, great manga = great anime. Ikoku Meiro no Croisee Episodes Watched: 3 Rating: A Comments: Magnificent. […] Read more
Well, at least they got Yuina back into the massage chair… I’m feeling myself in a bad place with HanaIro right now. I really, really don’t want to be the guy who carps every week on how disappointing this series is. But I’ve blogged it for four months, and seen […] Read more
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Playtime’s over, looks like. Last week wasn’t just another school adventure of the week, as it turns out – it was actually setting up the chain of events that would seismically shift the ground underneath Ao no Exorcist for good. And can anyone be surprised that it was Mephistopheles that […] Read more
In many ways, this was the episode that the series had been building towards from the very beginning. And with a couple of quibbles, it mostly delivered when the chips were down. Tiger & Bunny has been avoiding the subject of Kotetsu and Kaede’s relationship for 16 episodes – and […] Read more
Baka Test finally ended it’s summer vacation and went back to school for the third episode, and with it came a return to the comedic form of the first season. While it may not have been on a par with the absolute best episodes, this was a solid effort from […] Read more
In a tough season to pick series to blog, Kami-Memo is another series that’s right on the knife’s edge for me. Neither the second or third episodes have engaged me nearly as much as the first. It’s hard to put a finger on just why that is – it’s not […] Read more