I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed in the direction HanaIro has gone in the last couple of episodes. While this one was a small improvement from last week’s debacle, I can’t call is a successful episode because, quite simply, I just don’t think it worked. I give […] Read more
After watching this week’s edition of T & B, the question that stands out in my mind is this – why is the Hero Academy full of students with absolutely useless powers? The episode followed a pretty standard formula. Youngster is depressed and questioning his place in the world. Kotetsu […] Read more
Lots of new stuff happening in episode 6 of Deadman Wonderland. New characters, new exposition, and some very traditional anime cliches. While I confess I knew it was coming, Minatsuki’s seduction of Ganta was pretty well-played. It seems so obvious to me now that I can’t imagine even most first-time […] Read more
Episode 18 was definitely one of the more action-packed of the series so far. It transitioned the mystery of 16-17 to a sort of Agatha Christie exercise on the train back to Saubere. While there were a few plot holes – I’ve more or less come to expect them here […] Read more
I hadn’t really noticed much, as this show does such a great job of integrating all its characters into every episode, but Jintan has been kind of secondary in the last few. This was definitely a return to the themes of the first two eps – the main focus on […] Read more
Go Nagai is a very, very strange man. He must be – I can fathom no other explanation. Occam’s Razor and all that… Do you watch this for the plot? If so, there was one of sorts. The world is being plagued by a “Slip ‘n Fall” epidemic. No one […] Read more
It seems to me that this was a sort of placeholder episode for C – seemingly a dangerous venture for an 11-episode series. We had some nice moments, especially with Mashu. There was a new character introduces, and a fairly interesting dilemma played itself out. But in the end not […] Read more
Ah, Maekawa-san, my beautiful Maekawa-san – why did you leave? Don’t clear the field – enter the fray, and win. Fight-o! Fight-o! I’ve pretty much decided to just accept Denpa Onna for what it is at this point. It’s a show with likable characters dealing with some serious issues. You’ve […] Read more
This may have been the most plot-heavy and tense episode of Steins;Gate yet. The transition was handled quite smoothly (hint hint, HanaIro) because there have pretty much always been elements of disquiet even in the funnier episodes, and because there were moments of comedy in this serious one. The balance […] Read more
I was already enjoying Game of Thrones, but maybe this will be the week where I decided I really loved it. If the next couple of episodes are up to this standard, that will surely be the case. It would be hard to cove all the ways in which this […] Read more