He’s a pimp I need just four words to sum up this week’s episode: That was fucking AWESOME! How long have we waited for the battle to finally be joined, at long last? Turns out Toshio had a plan all along, and a damn good one. The whole Kagura festival […] Read more
Tick, tick, tick… Things are really heating up with NnM just as we seem to be running out of time to resolve them. With no official notice of a second season, for the viewer this is quite the quandary – how invested do I allow myself to get, knowing that […] Read more
Thus ends the Nao arc – and presumably most of the gratuitous Nao bashing. Honestly, I really don’t see what she’s done that’s so terrible (other than the rape, I mean). She loves her some Haruka, and seems to spend the whole of her life living that down. “Don’t remove…my […] Read more
“Maybe so! Good animation! All free! See you!” We’re awfully lucky to have as many solid comedies this season as we do, but for my money Shinryaku Ika Musume is the best of them. It fearlessly goes into realms of extreme weirdness without a moment’s hesitation, yet never loses the […] Read more
Udon vending machine – sugoi! “Careful – you’ll piss off the hipsters!” This series is pure Shinbo – in a good way – while maintaining the spirit of the original manga. In that sense it’s a worthy successor to Natsu no Arashi, with which I still feel it shares something […] Read more
There were several moments in that episode that left me almost stunned. Watching Kirino play that eroge was really… Something. I mean, no nudity, no foul language, but that was about as dirty as any anime episode I’ve seen in a long time. What a performance she put on! I […] Read more
The see-saw this week goes back to the romance side of the ledger, as manga creation takes a back seat to awkward middle-school courtship. And at that, it’s not Masahiro and Azuki but Takagi and Miyoshi who finally get center stage. Takagi has been suspended a week for the fighting […] Read more
What a truly wonderful episode to wrap up the Niche/Blue Notes Blues arc. It’s a mystery to me why this series doesn’t get more attention, on the English-language boards anyway. It’s really quite special and unique. What I’d thought was going to be a major step forward in the Gauche […] Read more
That was an altogether enjoyable episode of “Index” for me. The focus was on the comedy, with a bit of the religious/magic side of things, both of which are the modes I prefer for this show. It also featured some good Touma/Mikoto interplay, really for the first time this season. […] Read more
This week represented something of the yin/yang of this series for me. The first segment was full of the elements I loathe – Chibi-Tomoki, Mikako, another of her interminably tedious “competitions”. The second was wall-to-wall Ikaros being kawaii with a side of Nymph, which is a concoction I’ll take every […] Read more