The evidence continues to build that either BONES has figured this adaptation out, or that the material simply started getting better. Either way, this episode continues a very positive trend for Gosick. Both in terms of plot and atmosphere this arc has clearly been the best of the series so […] Read more
I’m the first to admit I don’t know nearly as much about this mythology as some folk do. My exposure is limited to the TV adaptations, and at that I only managed about three episodes of “Railgun” before I couldn’t take any more. So I’m more or less content to […] Read more
If there’s any real news this week, I suppose it must be that Laura Bodewig is still tsuntsun – she hasn’t taken out her membership card in the Orimura Ichika fan club yet. It only tool one episode for Cecilia to come on board, but Germans are apparently made of […] Read more
In some ways this was a fairly low-key episode of Yumekui Merry. It was a beach ep for starters, with all the trite fanservice moments that implies. But as it so often does, it manages to spin things just far enough off center to make the conventional feel surprising. It’s […] Read more
Eeeeee- eh, you get the point by now… I feel like taking a break from the whole “Is Kyuubey evil?” nonsense for a while, but the little peckerwood just makes it tough. Not content merely to rationalize the fact that it murders little girls by spinning that it’s actually doing […] Read more
Clainservice After the pretty intense and morally challenging events of the last couple of episodes, this was definitely a breather week on Fractale. The wisdom of taking a breather on an eleven-episode schedule can certainly be debated, but as these things go it wasn’t a bad episode in terms of […] Read more
What a joy to have Hourou Musuko back after the usual endless Noitamina break. The series continues to show a deft hand in portraying school life scenes as well as any series has done in years. The unusual circumstances of the leads are always present in the background, but they […] Read more
It struck me tonight (probably because I watched this episode right after Fairy Tail 66) that Kugimiya Rie’s Rose voice is almost identical to her “Happy” voice. Stick a pair of wings on a land animal and I guess KugiRie’s got her character down. As for the episode itself, it […] Read more
Whoa, that episode was full of surprises – in so many ways. Not least, how serious it was – there wasn’t anywhere close to the roughly 70-30 mix of screwball comedy to action and drama here – closer to 90-10 in the other direction. First off, we were treated to […] Read more
I feel as though I’ve been totally trolled by this show – which is wholly appropriate, What I thought was going to be a heady mix of drama and comedy now looks as if it’s going to go for straight-up hilarity. Which is fine – this is the funniest new […] Read more