Clarke’s Law is quite the hot topic in anime this week… After spending most of the season focused on what one might loosely call “magic” – a heady cocktail of Shinto and Chinese mythology mixed with shounen anime canon – Ushio and Tora takes a somewhat surprising turn to close […] Read more
Ending or not, that felt like a fitting conclusion. Without a doubt, coming into the season I viewed Subete ga F ni Naru as the appetizer for NoitaminA mystery, with next season’s Boku Dake ga Inai Machi as the main course. I still feel Boku Dake is going to be […] Read more
Here’s a short piece for MAL about my favorite anime film of all-time. One day I’ll wade into the subject much more deeply, I suspect… Read more
It looks so easy with episodes like this one… Make no mistake about it, as much as I like Daiya no A, this is one of the more frustrating sports anime I’ve followed. It’s hard not to ask why it is that a series capable of episodes as good as […] Read more
The world would be a better place if every anime episode ended with a simple, heartfelt “Dayon!” If you listened to the most recent RC podcast, you know that one of the far-reaching topics we covered was anime Christmas episodes – and to be honest it was a bit of […] Read more
It’s a pre-Christmas podcast over at RC, with yours truly once again behind the desk. Holiday anime, Manglobe, gender-swapping – we covered a lot of ground this time. Read more
There are no coincidences in space… The feels were running pretty hot and heavy in this week’s episode of Tekketsu no Orphans, which still has all the earmarks of a story setting up for some major tragedy but has yet to really bring the hammer down. The first requirement for […] Read more
This universe is apparently still in its expansion phase. It was officially announced this week that Concrete Revolutio is going to be a split cour series, though of course if you’ve been following the posts here that will come as no surprise to you. It’s a damn good thing, too, […] Read more
I’m not getting my hopes up, but we may just be headed for an actual climax. That preview message came as something of a shock, and that’s in spite of the fact that I knew full well that next week’s episode is the finale. As I said last week if […] Read more
Same header as last week – shameless in a good way. Nothing else would do it justice. Well, that was fun. No news there – Haikyuu is generally fun. But this was one of those carefree episodes that would come off as cloying or pandering in lesser hands, but Haikyuu […] Read more