Another check-mark on the Kansai bucket list. I love whisky, and so do the Japanese. If you don’t I doubt anything about this post will interest you much – though to be fair, Yamazaki itself is a lovely little town with canals and Shrines and water so good that Sen […] Read more
This week’s lesson from Kiseijuu: people die when they are killed. Uwah – that was certainly a mother of an episode. It pretty much ran the gamut of the human experience both primal and philosophical, took a stylistic turn around the track and threw in beheadings and a massive and […] Read more
Spring? Well, not quite – but we’re getting there. It’s an all-Shinto day today, with some miscellaneous Higashiyama shots sandwiched on either side. And a chocolate-almond pancake from Cafe Rhinebeck pancaked in the middle. I’ve been to many Tenjin Shrines, including this one, Kitano Tenmangu (the head Shrine) but given […] Read more
Who knew it was so creepy when goldfish smile? Thus might just have been my favorite episode of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! yet, at least in terms of consistent laughs: Is saying someone is “air” really a compliment? Rigor mortis Great villain this time, and a great comic performance […] Read more
Akatsuki no Yona just keeps finding new ways to close the sale. For me at least, it’s almost always true that it’s more fun to watch superficially humble characters be GAR than generally overpowered ones. You can draw a parallel to sports anime, where most of the best protagonists are […] Read more
I’ve heard of head-butting, but that’s taking it way too literally. If you’re a sports anime fan, you probably know the announcement that Diamond no Ace was unsurprisingly renewed for another season came this week (hopefully this will be some reward for all of the frustration we’ve endured these last […] Read more
This series sure makes that plan to go with minimal screencaps a challenge. Like clockwork Kamisama Hajimemashita delivers another vastly entertaining episode this week, as always finessing the balance between comedy and drama about as well as it’s possible to do it. But even as it explores its first real […] Read more
This arc is beginning to look very familiar… It’s tomorrow morning already, and if I wasn’t already exhausted from the last few days, this tortoise-like posting routine would be bad enough. So sorry DRRR, but it’s gonna be a brief one. Basically, it feels to me as if we’re going […] Read more
The only constant in life is change. As you know if you’ve read any of my recent episodic posts, I’ve moved house recently. This time it’s down to Kyoto, where the search for long-term employment in Japan continues (if anyone knows anyone and would care to introduce me…). It’s hard […] Read more
Oh, this is one hell of a mess we have building up here. We can’t yet know exactly what shape the splatter is going to take, of course, but it’s obvious that the shit is getting very close to hitting the fan. And I expect things to get pretty […] Read more