Last full day is Japan, and Blogger still won’t let me post a damn picture. Maybe it’s the hotel internet connection, or maybe Goog is just screwing with me. I’ll try a huge picture dump when I get home – I have some beauties, plus video. The bad news is, […] Read more
I don’t really think I can do this justice with words – it’s one of those shows you just have to watch. There was an OVA that didn’t make an impression on me, but based on the first 12-minute episode of the TV series, this could be a lot of […] Read more
It rained today, but I can’t complain – 1 day out of 10 is pretty good. And it was kind of a misty rain, too, not a downpour. There was a lot of wind, though – which made for a snowstorm of Sakura petals. The sad part, of course, is […] Read more
Well, I dreamed of earthquakes last night – but not scary dreams. They just sort of happened but it didn’t seem to rattle me too much. Then when I woke up today things were pretty much normal in Tokyo. If I hadn’t known there was a quake there were certainly […] Read more
I said when I reviewed the first episode of this series that I didn’t quite know why someone had green-lighted it, and that I was glad they did. You don’t see many 15 year-old manga, especially relatively unheralded ones, get anime adaptations. And this series isn’t remotely like anything else […] Read more
It was certainly fitting that Level E should conclude with a troll to end all trolls – something like a triple or even quadruple reverse troll, rarely attempted – let alone achieved. Indeed, the series went out with a little of everything that makes it great – trolling, Yukitaka pissed […] Read more
Pretty quiet day today. I spent much of it traveling from Hiroshima to Tokyo. I actually had the worst rail connection I’ve had in Japan – 40 minute wait for a Shinkansen that would get me to Shin-Osaka for a transfer to Tokyo. Still, that’s not the end of the […] Read more
Any episode where Victorique sings is going to have that as the headline moment, but there was an awful lot else to recommend this excellent offering, one of the best of the series so far. The primary role of the episode was to shed some background on Grevil, and his […] Read more
It’s hard to imagine a show less original and with a thinner plot than Infinite Stratos. Given that, the series really should have been a waste – unworthy of your time at best, unwatchable at worst. So what happened to make it actually sort of pretty OK, kind of? Well… […] Read more
News flash: Houki wins!!! With relentless precision, Infinite Stratos checks off the last few cliches in the finale. But I will give the show credit for actually being a harem series where the hero makes a choice in the end, even if I disagree with the choice – that certainly […] Read more