To my perception, C has pretty much been lost and foundering for a while now. So it really didn’t come as a great surprise or disappointment that the finale had a sort of spent quality to it, as if the opportunity for a real dramatic payoff was already gone, but […] Read more
To make it simple, I’ll state what stands out to me about AnoHana right here in the first sentence – it’s the best show of 2011 so far, and it isn’t even close. Every season of NoitaminA lately seems to follow the same trend – one show that has a […] Read more
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I have so many thoughts running through my head as I think back on the finale of AnoHana. That’s the hardest part about writing this post, probably – that, and trying to be objective about a show that’s so incredibly close to my heart by now. So I’ll begin by […] Read more
Another contender bites the dust, and Hoshizora faces down the final episode with Ui standing as the apparent winner by default. Ibuki-chan was certainly a game contender. She was really a more interesting character than Ui, really – though a fairly classic tsundere she was at least a complicated person. […] Read more
This episode of Steins;Gate represented a confirmation of a couple of developments that had been strongly hinted at for a while. First, that something bad – very bad – was going to happen to Mayushi. And second, that we were going to get something of a “finale” midway through the […] Read more
Seriously, now – if you can’t be moved by a cute little kitty-cat literally crying, what kind of heartless bastard are you? It’s a great credit to Ao no Exorcist that it manages to switch between it’s different modes without losing a step. After several school life eps followed by […] Read more
Oh, what a fine mess you’ve left us with, Mr. Martin. Although this was the conclusion of Season One (and Book One) it many ways, “Fire and Blood” felt more like a premiere for Season Two. At the very least it was a setup episode, the real dramatic crescendo coming […] Read more
“Take Heed of the Snake In the Grass” The big question I see at this point is this – is Jake Martinez a final boss, or is he just another bump in the road? With another cour still to go, it seems pretty early to be battling the ultimate villain. […] Read more
So HanaIro follows last week’s magnum opus with another rock-solid, character-driven episode. If it lacked the raw emotional firepower of it’s predecessor, it hummed along at a steady clip, tense and involving. Seems like Okada has a good grip on where things stand with the show for now – that’s […] Read more