That was pretty darn good filler. If only this were two cours, I would be thrilled for an episode like this one – funny, genuinely moving, with some excellent acting all around. It’s harder to be enthusiastic knowing we now have only three eps left to wrap up the main […] Read more
This is news to celebrate. I can’t say I was expecting this, because by all accounts Mitdusomoe hasn’t been that huge a hit in terms of ratings or DVD sales. Frankly I thought the humor was missing the mainstream audience – not moe enough for moe fans, not ecchi enough […] Read more
Many of the threads that we’ve been following for 22 episodes are starting to come together now as we reach the climax of Giant Killing. But with four eps to go, the center of the story at the moment is Natsuki – introduced into the story late though he was, […] Read more
Mitsudomoe is creative, inventive, and original. But, like all great comedies, it relies on the tried and true archetypes of humor. It seems to me that the Mitsuba-Futaba dynamic comes down to a classic relationship that anyone who’s watched Laverne and Shirley would know about. The classic description of those […] Read more
Kuroshitsuji II continues on its batshit crazy run of bizarre plot twists, rampant shotacon and random acts of savagery. And it’s having an awful lot of fun in doing it. 10 was arguably the creepiest ep of the series so far. There were a few interesting revelations – among them […] Read more
Of course you realize, this means war… In a rather evil maneuver, the producers abandon last week’s cliffhanger for now and the focus of the story shifts away from the children to the second front in the developing vampire war – Toshio and Seishin. And lo and behold, the formerly […] Read more
There are many true things that can be said about Major, but one of them is certainly this – if you’re looking for subtlety you’re looking in the wrong place most of the time. This is a baseball series about big, grand (and often unlikely) events, executed by big, grand […] Read more
Scary shota… Happy shota! A bit of a return to form for Nurarihyon this week, in a well-paced episode that nicely ties in Gyuuki’s backstory and ties up his arc. While an entire ep of that backstory seemed a bit much at the time, in hindsight it seems to have […] Read more
#9 was yet another smart, atmospheric and beautifully animated episode of Occult Academy – thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. And you know, I’m getting very worried. Why the long face? Well, we only have four episodes to go. And as this “Occult Flavor of the Week” ep will carry […] Read more
Remarkably,the pacing of GK slowed down even more with episode 22. Due to halftime we covered only 10 minutes of game action, and at the end we’re only 55 minutes into the match. It seems inevitable now that the Osaka arc is going to be the last one for the […] Read more