As we get ready for the long-awaited second season of Baka Test, word comes that the spinoff manga Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Spinout! will be getting an anime adaptation. Looks like the anime will be distributed as bonus episodes with the BD/DVD releases of Baka to Test to Shoukanju […] Read more
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the […] Read more
With manga perhaps more than anime, I’m often initially drawn in by the artwork. If the story doesn’t engage me, no manga is beautiful enough to keep me reading for all that long. This one, though, would be damn close even if the story weren’t interesting and well-crafted – but […] Read more
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes… I’ve had the growing suspicion that something really nasty was coming down the pike for Steins;Gate. After the last couple of episodes that seems more likely than ever – an increasingly creepy and ominous mood has settled over things, […] Read more
Go Nagai definitely had access to the good stuff in the 70’s – of that there can be no doubt. It’s not every anime that gives you the line “Did you really have to fist me?!!” Nor is is every anime that has a yuri scene where a demon gives […] Read more
I always assume readers of a blog review expect spoilers, so I don’t give it much thought. But this is a slightly different case. If you haven’t seen the episode and plan to, don’t read this review yet. Because boy, there’s gonna be a hell of a spoiler in it. […] Read more
And so, maddeningly, HanaIro shows us once again just how great it can be, but most of the time isn’t. This episode was so strong it’s probably enough to keep me strung along till the end, even if the rest of the episodes are disasters like #3 and #7. I […] Read more
They talked!!! But WTF did they do to pass the exam? Ah, well – there’s some serious academic fixing going on at this school, and obviously Bunny and Hoodie are important enough to the plot that they had to be advanced with the others. But I can forgive it, because […] Read more
Sometimes this series feels more like an anime and sometimes like an American superhero comic, and this arc is definitely taking on the air of something straight out of DC’s classic library. We have our supervillain, that’s for sure, and we’re digging pretty deep into the well of heroes to […] Read more
In some ways, Deadman Wonderland is a perfect story – perfect in the simplicity of it’s injustice and horror. It’s a kind of perfect storm of human depravity and the cruelty of fate. It certainly bogs down in the execution at times, and requires quite a healthy suspension of disbelief. […] Read more