Sometimes when we say “shameless”, we mean it in a good way… I always tend to watch Haikyuu towards the end of the day, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence. There’s an effortless quality both to the production and the experience of watching it – not only is it […] Read more
There’s an awful lot of symbolism at play in this week’s episode of Ushio to Tora. It’s hard to believe we’re already staring down the barrel of Episode 24, because this series has flown by in what seems like the blink of an eye. I think that’s a particular advantage […] Read more
I never thought I’d see No.6 and Fractale back on NoitaminA… Ultimately, I suppose, any mystery series is going to come down to the mystery for better or for worse – and this episode was definitely all about the mystery. Fortunately this… Well – what was it? Not a denouement, […] Read more
Comprehensive? Nope. Objective? As if. But it is a batch of great romances in one writer’s opinion. Read more
I think you guys probably know my answer. Read more
As Christopher Fry once said, comedy is an escape – not from truth, but from despair. In my world, there are few loftier words of praise for any comedy than “fearless”. It’s pretty damn close to a requirement for a comedy to be considered great in my book, and pretty […] Read more
Hell has indeed frozen over. Time to put the ugliness of last week’s inexplicable ending behind us, because there are preliminaries to settle before we can get down to the main event of the cour – and we sure as hell weren’t getting an explanation from this week’s episode. There […] Read more
Meat and cookies don’t always stand for meat and cookies. It’s always interesting to see the response to episodes of a Gundam series in the usual places where people vote on such things (you’re familiar with these popular sites, I’m sure) especially a Gundam show like this one with its […] Read more
That was a fitting episode for a series with as elastic a concept of time as this one. Concrete Revolutio continues to be a survey course in paranormal phenomena and Japanese history. It remains as superficially confusing as ever but while it may be my imagination, I can almost convince […] Read more
What a waste of a great voice actor… It strikes me, not for the first time, that there’s a fundamental contradiction at the heart of One Punch Man. Every time the protagonist gets into a fight it’s an anti-climax, which would normally be a huge narrative problem – but that […] Read more