Well, as you can see I’ve finally lumbered into the 21st Century. Blogger is a stubborn animal, but you can do stuff like embed polls in posts if you use a few html trickerations… Even more exciting, I’ve actually linked the blog to Twitter now (Facebook too). Yes, I finally […] Read more
This week was certainly all about the mystery on Gosick. And while it remains one of the best and most interesting mysteries the series has presented, there were a few too many deux ex machina elements to the resolution for my tastes. Here’s how things went down, as far as […] Read more
The last 7 minutes or so of this episode of Dororon may have made me laugh harder than anything this season. This show has a way of building the hilarity and finishing with absolutely insane third acts – and the third act is usually the weakest part of an episode. […] Read more
There’s always been more than a dash of political allegory in C, whether people wanted to admit it or not. I’ll give them credit – I haven’t seen the notion of “mortgaging our children’s futures” depicted quite so literally as it has been here. Of course, things are still insanely […] Read more
Well as usual, so much happened there that my head is spinning a little. I really should take a few hours to digest and compose my thoughts before blogging an episode of AnoHana, but there’s so much churning around in my head that I need to get it down while […] Read more
Maekawa’s latest outfit, oh my – she’s just getting more and more adorable. I knew there was a reason I had sashimi for dinner tonight. I have to sort of remind myself every time an episode of Denpa Onna starts that traditional assessments just won’t work – I need to […] Read more
One-shot OVAs don’t get much attention these days, even when they’re from a (suddenly quite busy) legendary studio like Sunrise. Koi Sento doesn’t try and do anything fancy with the story in its 25 minutes, but it’s built around a clever conceit and has some terrific visuals to back it […] Read more
As much as it pains me when it’s a show I really like, I’m going to be just a bit of a dissenting voice in the flood of praise this series is getting at the moment. Mostly, for me, that dissatisfaction comes down to this – it seems like Okarin […] Read more
We’ve learned something this week on Hoshizora – when it tries to get serious, it’s pretty boring. Oh, we also learned that Ayumu in a fundoshi is almost as sparkly as Erio in a futon. And it was nice to get an ep full of Hina, as she’s one of […] Read more
I’ve started reading the original novel “Game of Thrones by George R.R. Matin (don’t worry, I haven’t caught up to the series yet, so no spoilers). As I do it’s interesting to note the changes that have been made, and their impact on the story. The Stark children’s (and the […] Read more