Maybe I spoke too soon about Yura not being in the game in the Rikuo sweepstakes. After not appearing at all last week, she has the spotlight in a strong second episode of the second season. It continues to look as if we’re going to have a more taut, focused […] Read more
Please use this for more specific feedback and comments about the new layout. As you can see, just about everything is new including font, text color, layout, background image, etc. Blogger has a limit of 300k for the BGI, which makes it quite difficult to find a decent quality image […] Read more
And so begins the second cour of Ao no Exorcist, with a new OP (straight-up J-rock by ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D, with a few spoilerific frames) and ED (fairly boring techno with a visual focus on Rin, Yukio and the students). It seems fitting that the second half of the series […] Read more
All right, we’ve had our little break from the serious emotional stretch ther the middle of the series. I’m ready to go back now, because to be honest this episode was about as light as an animator’s wallet and I was pretty bored by the time it was done. For […] Read more
After two episodes, Sunrise’s Sacred Seven continues to be big, explosive and silly. And I’m on the fence about whether to stick with it. The casting choices for this series are interesting, because it seems to be that Takuma Terashima and Irinu Miyu are both playing against type. It would […] Read more
This was another pretty solid episode of Tiger & Bunny, and strongly portending dark times to come. But I couldn’t help but notice that the central premise was a fairly blatant ripoff of (Sunrise seies) Outlaw Star episode 20, “Cats, Girls and Spaceships” – the best ep of one of […] Read more
OP: 「マジヤバもーそうLOVE♥」 (Maji Yaba Mousou LOVE ♥) by R-15 (合田彩, 福原由莉奈, 柏山奈々美, 小松真奈, 積田かよ子, 村上まどか, 村井理沙子, 月宮みどり) (Gouda Aya, Fukuhara Yurina, Kashiyama Nanami, Komatsu Mana, Tsumita Kayako, Murakami Madoka, Murai Risako, Tsukimiya Midori) FYI, this intro is “simulcast”, as I’m also doing a first impressions post for RC on this […] Read more
If there was ever a studio that has the feel of “generic” attached to it, it would be ZEXCS. Their shows generally have about the same look – middling animation, slightly washed-out color scheme, very, well, generic style. They tend to have supernatural elements and fairly gratuitous fanservice, usually school-themed. […] Read more
OP: Kimi + Nazo + Watashi de JUMP!! (君＋謎＋私でJUMP!!)” by Larval Stage Planning Note to self: do not tell hot girl on beach that she looks like a porn star. It’s always great to welcome back an old friend like Baka Test. While the first season was occasionally uneven, pound […] Read more
OP: OP: 「ノルニル」 (Noruniru) by やくしまるえつこメトロオーケストラ (Yakushimaru Etsuko Metro Orchestra) In some ways I was more curious about this series than any other of the Summer. The PVs were bizarre, puzzling and utterly unhelpful in illuminating what was to come. The promo descriptions were cryptic and vague, to say the […] Read more