I’ve said this before, but Soredemo is a series that elevated itself in my esteem as much as any I’ve watched for a while. It was on the edge for me whether I’d blog it after the first couple of episodes, but somewhere roundabout the third episode my resistance wore […] Read more
What started out as a pretty typical chronicling of a Hotori misadventure developed into something quite a bit more in the final episode of Soredemo. I found this one hitting pretty much all the right notes for me, as the series itself did for most of its run. For starters, […] Read more
Episode 13 serves as a sort of breather, as we take a break from the main storyline. It’s also great to see Aria as the sole focus of an episode, and we certainly see a new and different side to her (and I don’t just mean squeezing into her bee […] Read more
This is the second OVA release for Kure-nai, a special treat for readers of the manga (of which I am not one), bundled with the last two volume releases. And I liked it quite a bit more than the first one. The tone of these OVAs is quite a bit […] Read more
OK, we’re definitely being trolled Another magnificent bloodbath as the penultimate episode of Shiki takes the human side further off the path of rationality and the Shiki closer to extermination. I fully understand what Fuyumi Ono is trying to do here, and it’s certainly effective. This series has sparked some […] Read more
“I wonder what I should use for the murder weapon?” Well, that was altogether more interesting than it had any right to be. Since this was my first exposure to the omnibus format in anime form, I don’t know whether this kind of “digest” ending is typical – but it […] Read more
“Mama, why is this person so beautiful?” I can’t really find anything negative to say about this wonderful episode, or this wonderful series. If I sound like I’m gushing it’s because I am – that’s how much I love these characters. If I have to come up with a downside […] Read more
So ends season one of Nurarihyon no Mago – sort of. Apparently there’s another recap episode next week, though I’m not sure if it’s officially the end of S1 or the beginning of S2. On balance I would have to say that ended in a fairly predictable fashion. The battlefield […] Read more
I think we’re pretty fortunate to have two pure comedies as good as Shinryaku Ika Musume and Soredemo in one season. Straight-ahead comedy is really difficult to pull off consistently, and this show was brilliant. It delivered a terrific batting average over the course of roughly 35 mini-episodes, and even […] Read more
It’s going to be hard for me not to wax poetical about how much I loved this show, but I’d really like to save that for the series review and confine myself to the final episode itself. The writers managed to accomplish several things in this episode. They managed to […] Read more