It’s good to see Baka Test back in full-length form, even as we wait patiently for the second season. For now, we have the “Matusri” OVA to tide us over and, if it isn’t the show at its best, we still get our share of vintage Baka moments. It’s school […] Read more
Well, that little confrontation at Jack headquarters went just about as I expected. “Team Fukuda” blew off a little steam, and the editors told them to grow a pair and deal with it. It was Masahiro who ended up spelling things out, but the logic of it was inescapable – […] Read more
This was a truly excellent episode of Tegami Bachi for a number of reasons, which I’ll detail below. First and foremost, though, it excels as the all-important setup episode. In a series with a big plot arc like this one (we’re at almost 50 episodes) there’s a tremendous amount of […] Read more
I already have a series review of Mitsudomoe season 1, of course, and it would be easy enough to repeat everything I said there in this one – the two seasons were consistent enough as to have felt almost contiguous. There were differences, however, and I loved Zouryouchou! enough that […] Read more
The bonus TV episode did indeed turn out to be the DVD extra ep that was part of the season one releases. While it was clearly of the first season, the episode showed how little things really changed between seasons (in a good way) and if this turns out to […] Read more
This is a nice trend – Gosick was excellent again this week. Though the mystery lacked the personal urgency of the last one (at least until the end) it was still interesting – like something out of a “Doctor Who” episode from the 70’s. As usual, though, it was the […] Read more
There was lots of cool stuff happening in that episode, but to be honest I think an anime-only watcher really wouldn’t have much of a chance of understanding what was going on most of the time. I had to read a lot of spoilers after the fact just to give […] Read more
Cute me…is cute Shameless is about the only word I can think of to begin to do this show justice. What a scamp it is – always doing dumb things, but you can’t help but feel some affection for it. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more shameless-er… […] Read more
I guess either I or Yumekui Merry is out of whatever funk we were in last week, as I enjoyed this episode just fine. This is an odd little series, with highly original BGM and visual style. While the plot is nothing to write home about and the pacing some […] Read more
That was a really exciting and visually striking episode. Fractale has already proved itself capable of some pretty big shifts in tone, and this week provided another one – a kind of surrealistic journey that had me in mind of “The Wizard of Oz” – or at least the dark […] Read more