To get the mechanics of the situation out of the way, as I understand it this was a “compilation” of episodes 10 and 11, with full unedited versions of both to air on the DVDs. I don’t quite understand, but it may have something to do with the earthquake or […] Read more
Now that was more like it. This episode of Yumekui Merry was the best in a long while. There was a real current of menace and suspense running through it, start to finish. Some things weren’t perfect, true, but on the whole it was free of the pacing issues that […] Read more
I hate to harp on it, but the last time I blogged an episode of this series was before the earthquake. It hardly seems possible, but it’s true – it’s been almost two weeks since that fateful day that changed everything for Japan and those of us that love it. […] Read more
Spring 2011 is an interesting season for a couple of reasons. For starters, we have 46 new shows (47 if you count Moshidara, which I count as part of Winter). That represents a sizable jump from the last couple of spring seasons. Does that mean a new renaissance for the […] Read more
If you’re like me, the sight of Grell as a pole-dancing Cheshire Cat isn’t one you’ll soon forget. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s certainly a thing. The quality of the extra material for this series continues to impress. As was the […] Read more
The penultimate episode of Dragon Crisis and things have come full circle – Onyx has come back and custody of Rose is the matter of the day, once again. Turns out Sapphie inadvertently set the stage for the current sequence of events by pushing Rose to complete the coming-of-age ceremony […] Read more
The long awaited return of Tsutsui-kun is this week, and it doesn’t disappoint. This time we get to meet the rest of his team as well. I was wondering how they were going to be worked back into the plot, but I must confess the premise took me by surprise. […] Read more
A nice return to form this week for this series. The show has suffered from lazy writing from time to time, but in the last two episodes it’s seemed especially apparent. Well, this week was focused, on-point and had a nice mix of (mostly) serious stuff and comedy. We have […] Read more
I hoisted a special beer tonight – the Hitachino Commemorative Ale, sometimes called Celebration Ale. It’s the New Year’s offering from little Kiuchi Brewery in Ibaraki, Japan. If that place sounds familiar it’s because you’ve probably heard it in the news this last week – it’s a Prefecture in Northern […] Read more
Dragon Crisis is back, with the first of back-to-back episodes. And as this series usually does, it delivers exactly what you expected – no more and no less. Another new character this week, and with it another mega-star seiyuu, Emiri Katou. This series is full of above the title voice […] Read more