Evil shadow is evil I’ve always felt that Shinbo was at his best adapting other works rather than staging original series. While that would seem to bode ill for my feelings about this series, I don’t really think it does. Adaptations suit Shinbo because they keep his dark side – […] Read more
I’ve been reading the manga for this series – only the chapters that precede the events in the anime, but it makes a nice framing device for what we’re seeing. I enjoy seeing the little foreshadowings of what’s happening on-screen, but what’s perhaps most impressive to me is that the […] Read more
Durarara is back with another DVD-only episode, this one a postscript to the events of the series. And it hearkens back to the first (and better) half of the TV series, with multiple subplots running at the same time and a heavy emphasis on humor. The vehicle this time is […] Read more
Every season usually offers a show or two that don’t do anything to particularly to knock your socks off, but just has a quality to it that makes you like it. Wagaya no Oiniri-sama is a series that comes to mind for me, as does Yoshinaga San’chi no Gargoyle. They […] Read more
Yes, he’s drinking Pinot again. The quest for a good $10 bottle of Pinot Noir is something of a holy grail for us Pinotphiles – usually fruitless (sometimes literally) occasionally disastrous, rarely successful. So how does this entry from New Zealand stack up? First of all, at $11.49 from Costco, […] Read more
In some respects this episode encapsulated everything that’s good and everything that’s bad about Kore was Zombie Desu Ka? It was peppered with moments of inspired comedy and clever dialogue, but all too often fell back on the tired running jokes that stopped being funny by the second time they […] Read more
If I can make the statement, “I’ve never seen anything quite like it” about a series, that’s a big feather in its cap as far as I’m concerned. For me to love a series it’s neither necessary or enough, but it’s definitely a point in favor. And I can honestly […] Read more
This was certainly one of the most “shounen” of all the Bakuman episodes so far – a reminder that this is indeed a shounen manga in spite of it’s somewhat unorthodox storyline. For one week this was a battle series – all about the fighting spirit and the coming struggle […] Read more
OK, I have to get this gripe out of the way – why the hell didn’t Ambrose and Grevil do anything when Victorique grabbed Kujo after the bridge collapsed? Why are two grown men leaving it to a tiny little girl to keep Kujo from falling – and how exactly […] Read more
I admit there have been a lot of times, especially this week, when I’ve been angry or wanted to feel sorry for myself that Mitsudomoe only got an eight-episode second season. But I try to remind myself how many great shows never got a second season at all, and that […] Read more