Oppai…Oppai… Two episodes in, the Rihoko arc is looking very reminiscent of the Kaoru arc. Old friends with an easy familiarity, a likable friendship, trivial problems and not much romantic spark. The Founder’s Festival comes halfway through this arc instead of at the end, as it did with the Ai […] Read more
Something wicked this way comes… Wow. I haven’t been that floored by an episode of an anime is a long, long time. Shiki has been on pretty much an upward curve from the very beginning so it was already damn good, but with #14 it seems to have reached a […] Read more
I am…Galactic Ika! Nurarihyon continues its strong run this week with an excellent episode that calls Natsume Yuujinchou to mind. And that can never be a bad thing. I love anime dealing with Kami, the local deities of Shinto. There’s something incredibly powerful and moving about those little shrines hidden […] Read more
I’m already here! Really great stuff from Shinryaku Ika Musume again this week. Three winners, all with a very different feel and style of humor. This is the fall season’s “Mitsudomoe” for me – and yes, I do admit the type of humor is extremely different. But the similarities are […] Read more
Something hard is poking me… OK, so here we go – the new (new to me, anyway) twist on the “omnibus format” makes it’s debut with episode 5 of Yosuga no Sora. The first two eps are taken as read, and we pick up at the pool scene at school […] Read more
I have to confess that this episode absolutely drove me crazy. That’s good in one way, because it takes a pretty good series to make me care enough to get pissed off. But it does raise a couple of red flags going forward. Basically, I still don’t like Kirino very […] Read more
A couple of things stand out from this week’s Bakuman for me. First, that 9th grade is really awkward. And second, that creating a manga is hard. Really, really hard. I’ve seen complaints that the romance in this story isn’t very compelling so far, but I think that’s rather the […] Read more
One change for the better in the second season of Letter Bee is this: based on the quality of the anime original episodes so far, they’re doing a much better job of seamlessly blending that material in with the manga-based eps. Though #5 was entirely anime original, it felt perfectly […] Read more
A two-part episode of SnO this week. The first half comprised really the only serious ep of the season, as Sugata makes another journey to the inside of Tomoki’s dreams, this time with Sohara as a hitchhiker. Turns out Sugata has figured out that Tomoki’s dream is actually the Synapse, […] Read more
Don’t Mess With Index Well now, that was a very exciting and action-packed episode, and full of interesting things. I find it somewhat humorous to watch this episode as a Westerner. Though I was certainly not offended, I could easily see where someone might take this as anti-Catholic. I don’t […] Read more