Three episodes in, and I still can’t figure this one out. It’s not just me – there’s a reason why this show – from the beginning – has been compared to more different shows than any series I can remember. This week “School Days” comparisons are all the rage, but […] Read more
The intensity was ramped way up in the third episode of Ore no Imouto. We had an interesting structure here – no OP, with the entire episode building up to Kyousuke blurting out the title, then a jump to the ED. Almost as if the entire first three episodes were […] Read more
Brace yourselves, for I have shocking information to share – in this weeks episode of Index II, Index is kidnapped! How’s that for a plot twist? Well – not really. It’s actually our old buddy, the 6′ tall, flame-haired, chain-smoking, stubble-cheeked 14 year-old Styl Magnus. Seeing Styl brought back definite […] Read more
What’s in a name? Bakuman continues to unwind at a deliberate pace, with roughly the entire episode taking place during the boys’ late night visit to Nobuhiro’s studio. The boys, flush with the enthusiasm of youth, pick through Uncle Nobuhiro’s things until 1:30 AM – pissing off Masahiro’s mom, but […] Read more
Kawaii overload Episode three was a classic, archetypal Tegami Bachi. A perfectly self-contained 20:49 of emotional stand-alone story, flawlessly paced, with a tie-in to the main plotline book-ending it on either side. When you have a formula that works this well, why change it? I’m seeing a bit more quirky […] Read more
Episode 2 could easily have been titled “Arashiyama and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. It strikes me that I’ve very rarely seen a series for which success is going to depend more on how the viewer likes a seiyuu. Chiaki Omigawa is an actress that tends to […] Read more
It look is a little less than 4 months, but Lost in America reached a milestone tonight – 10,000 hits! OK, so that’s not exactly Youtube – but for my little ragtag, slap and dash blog I think it’s pretty good. A sincere thank you to everyone who has stopped […] Read more
“He’s already dead”. This, along with “After people die, where do they go?” form the legendary lines of this episode. There’s a funny sort of structure to SnO, where you basically have two episodes running parallel to each other. In one, Tomoki is in “normal” form and actual plot advancement […] Read more
I prefer tonkotau, myself… That was certainly odd. Junichi invited Ai to a new amusement park, to which he was given tickets by a strange court jester who spoke Japanese with a bad accent. While in the haunted house he’s apparently sprayed by some sort of psychedelic gas from a […] Read more
Noitamina has consistently been providing the best anime experiences on the schedule for most of the year, so it’s no surprise that the brilliant Shiki has been joined by what appears to be yet another gem – Kuragehime. No one should be surprised, given that the director or Takahiro Omori. […] Read more