The big news in Ao no Exorcist this week was that Bunny Shota and Hooded-cloak Guy finally broke out in a big way, and boy was it worth the wait! They- wait… Oh yeah, that never happened – they’re still furniture. Never mind. I’m still enjoying this series, though I’ll […] Read more
An interesting episode of T & B this week, though ultimately disappointing in that it once again teased some father/daughter time with Kotetsu and Kaede, and didn’t deliver. I don’t blame the girl for being pissed off. In general I liked the first part of this ep the best – […] Read more
While HanaIro has been driving me mad with wild swings in quality and believability from episode to episode, it hasn’t been above some pretty dramatic fluctuations within the eps themselves – and this one was no exception. On balance it was a pretty solid effort, written by Junji Nishimura – […] Read more
Season “32 and a half” closes with a big cliffhanger that’s also a big reveal, and an episode that has everything including the kitchen sink and most of the other fixtures besides. Needless to say, don’t read on if you don’t want to be spoiled… Steven Moffatt is nothing if […] Read more
For the first time this week, I feel a real sense of disquiet about this adaptation. That’s because this was the first episode where it really became clear – at least to me – that things were moving way too fast for a believable conclusion. The events of the episode […] Read more
Perhaps better than in any so far, episode 20 of Gosick did a nice job of setting up a very interesting mystery. The fact that it appears to be the cou de grace in Marquis de Blois’ plans for his daughter makes it appear that the author was saving the […] Read more
I suppose I went at Keiichi Hara backwards. I started with his most recent work, 2010’s Colorful. That was what piqued my interest in his 2007 film Summer Days With Coo. And I haven’t even dipped my toe into his large cache of Doraemon and Shin-Chan work. The oversight is […] Read more
I’ll just say up front, any DVD extra where Manami says “Kuroneko-san, I guess the real dirty whore here is you instead of me!” is OK in my book. Not to mention we found out that Yuuichi Nakamura doesn’t want a guy to lick him. Oreimo always manages to mine […] Read more
To help tide us over till the (no date announced yet) second season of Ika Musume, we get a couple of four-minute “Mini Ika” shorts attached to the BD released last week. For those of you hoping these would include a heartwarmer like the Mini-Ika chapter from the first season, […] Read more
Or, “Singapore’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” Things are certainly happening, but a little too quickly for my tastes. This seems to be a recurring theme with NoitaminA – in any given season one show will have a game plan for the 11-episode format that really works, and […] Read more