Hope can be the cruelest thing of all. Is Spring of 2015 the season when anime finally emerges from the long, dark tea-time of the soul that’s enshrouded it over the last couple of years? There’s reason to believe it’s possible, but to me, this is a season that has […] Read more
I don’t know what stunned me more – that final episode, or the reaction to it. Author’s Note: Given the obvious gap between anime and manga events, please refrain from posting manga spoilers in the comments even if the anime has concluded. Many of us plan to read it in […] Read more
Things that make you go “Hmm…” for $1000 please, Alex. Kiseijuu is a fascinating series in more ways than I can count – in pretty much every way, in fact. It’s wholly deserving of the outstanding ratings it’s received at places like Anime Planet and MAL (where it’s in all-time […] Read more
It seems someone brought a crate of Red Bull to the writers’ room for this episode. It’s always nice when a series finishes with its best episode, and for my money Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! definitely did that – it was more better than any of the rest. That […] Read more
As I said recently in another post, hope can be the cruelest thing of all… As finales go, Akatsuki no Yona’s delivered just about everything I would think any fan of the series would want. Yet there’s no denying that what most of us were hoping for was the one […] Read more
Daichi Akitarou faces an awfully big challenge next week, but if anyone is up to it, you’d imagine it would be him. Kamisama Hajimemashita finds itself in a different position to most of the best series ending this season. There’s the question of a sequel, from the almost-definitely (Yowamushi Pedal) […] Read more
Considering how great the episode was, this really sucks… I knew Nabeshima-sensei was going to do it, but it was still a swift kick in the nuts when the credits rolled. Now it’s like you DVR’d (I almost said “taped”) the Super Bowl, and have to wait a week to […] Read more
Next week had damn well better be worth the wait. Diamond no Ace – 74 As is too often the case with Daiya no A lately, we have to be patient through an awful lot of twaddle to get to the good stuff. And this time around we didn’t even […] Read more
Aldnoah.Zero is certainly true to itself, right to the end. From the very beginning this has been one of the more perplexing series of the year, seemingly countering every spark of brilliance with a complete headdesk moment. This season has definitely been the better of the two in my opinion […] Read more
Madhouse, thank heaven for you – saving anime one commercial flop at a time. It seems to me that fans of the Onepunch Man manga (and I knew they are legion) ought to be very excited about the news that Madhouse will be handling the adaptation (with Shingo Natsume directing, […] Read more