Once again this week, it’s all about the execution with Ao no Exorcist. There’s not much going on here that we haven’t seen before, but we usually don’t see it done this well. So it appears that the first two eps (GAR performance by Keiji Fujiwara aside) were basically the […] Read more
I’m very late to the party on this, but I wanted to post a quick review of Oji-san no Lamp. It was part of the “Young Animator Training Project, an interesting exercise sponsored by the Japan Animation Creation Association. They put up about $2.25 million for four animators to get […] Read more
From the very beginning, Steven Moffat has shown a remarkable ability to craft new “Doctor Who” monsters that carve out a new place in our nightmares. From “Blink” to “Silence in the Library” to the monsters inhabiting this new adventure, they manage to remain true to the spirit of classic […] Read more
This adaptation continues to race along at breakneck pace, and so far pretty successfully. Some of the nuance of the manga is certainly being lost, but the realities are what they are. It’s certainly lending the proceedings a breathless excitement that should hold the attention of the viewer. This is […] Read more
On balance, this was probably the best overall arc for Gosick. The mystery was complex, well-structured and internally consistent. It also – like the Horvitz Arc – tied in directly to the main characters and the larger forces that are impacting their lives. And there’s a growing sense that they […] Read more
Moshidara concludes its first week with probably the two most interesting episodes to date. The subject of both episodes was more or less innovation, one of the key elements of Drucker’s management theories. For starters, Nikai – the glasses-boy who always shows up for practice but isn’t very good – […] Read more
This was definitely the strongest episode of the first three of Denpa Onna for me. I still have some issues with the show, but there were promising signs. The more serious turn the show has been hinting at taking finally materialized, though it’s all relative I suppose – it remains […] Read more
He didn’t… Did he? I don’t know if anything I see this season is going to be able to match last week’s episode of Dororon for pure depravity, but fortunately Go Nagai has endless reserves of the stuff – so we figure to be treated to healthy doses of the […] Read more
If the boundaries between eras and between fact and fiction ever loosed enough to allow me to share company with Sasuke, I would love to play poker with him. I suspect he may be the worst poker face in human history. Damn, that was fascinating. We’re really being treated to […] Read more
Let’s review: A day in the life of a very strange ghost: – Make very material muffins with very material ingredients – Pray at the altar of another dead person – Go screaming through the woods because someone says they saw your ghost. Oh, yeah – that’s you! Without question, […] Read more