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
Five Hinatas? Talk about a genki overdose. There are episodes of Haikyuu that, while perfectly entertaining and well-executed, are pretty tough to blog about. And this was one of those episodes. I’ve noted this before – and not only about Haikyuu – that sometimes a show does such a good […] Read more
Noragami is a series that never hesitates to stare into the heart of darkness, literally or figuratively. In a way it feels like this arc (does it have a name?) of Noragami Aragoto has sort of crept up on me. The Bishamon arc was a big story, no question about […] Read more
And here I thought Ging Freecs was a bad dad… Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all of LiA’s readers in America. But if you were looking for a turkey, you were looking in the wrong place with Ushio & Tora – as usual this week’s episode was on-point, seeming to fly […] Read more
Noragami knows what it wants out of an OVA, and always delivers it. As with the first season, “Aragoto” brings with it two OADs. And as with the first season, they’re both canon material (more or less – this one is from the spinoff manga Noragami Shuuishii – “Stray Stories”) […] Read more
This series stubbornly refuses to be predictable, that’s for certain. I’m noticing a trend with Subete ga F ni Naru, one that’s recurrent enough to suggest that it goes beyond coincidence. The second half of almost every recent episode has been considerably more compelling than the first, and this week […] Read more
Any day with Kamisama Hajmemashita in it is a good day. It’s been a few months since the first “Kako-hen” OVA was released, but my schedule has been so crazy that I just haven’t found the time to dedicate to it that I feel this series deserves. It matters not […] Read more
Holy mackerel! I think it’s inevitable that a series that goes for volume laughs the way Osomatsu-san does is going to have some ups and downs, and for me this episode was a bit of a valley. There have been mostly peaks so far so the occasional letdown isn’t remotely […] Read more
Huh?? Well, I’m baffled. First off, it must be said that was a rather good episode of Ace of Diamond on the whole. At the very least it was a marked improvement over the last couple of weeks, which is hardly surprising given that it was Eijun pitching. Things were […] Read more
He’s not exactly Craster, but that doesn’t mean Naze Turbine is a swell guy. Once again Tekketsu no Orphans turned on a dime, ditching last week’s action-driven style for a dialogue-heavy episode full of emotion. Once you get past the whiplash I rather like that this series has the ability […] Read more