Oh yes, One Punch Man has ascended to full-blown awesome now. As is my usual preference when I’m writing a generally positive post (and this one is going to be extremely positive) with one negative element, I’ll get the negative out of the way. I didn’t especially like the way […] Read more
Retro, throwback – whatever adjectives you got, I don’t think they do the experience justice. What’s this – a First Impressions post in November? And for Digimon, yet? Yes, it’s odd, but here we are. This Digimon revival has been in development since forever, and the announcement that it would […] Read more
I’d say that eggshell is pretty well cracked now. It’s Tsukki time on Haikyuu at long last, and it seems as if the lanky lad is poised to play a major role in the story going forward. The role of rival for Hinata has pretty much been vacant since day […] Read more
Even Gods, it seems, aren’t immune from daddy issues. Noragami continues to be a dark ride. Even when it’s in comedy mode, despair always seems to be lurking in the background, as if these are characters that fate simply won’t allow to have a free pass. There’s a strange kind […] Read more
There just aren’t many series that do transition as well as Ushio and Tora. This episode marked the end of a major phase of Ushio to Tora, but the story didn’t really miss a beat. Partly I think that’s due to the unique sort of continuity this series employs – […] Read more
Talk about a tale of two halves. I think something needs to be said straight out about the use of English in anime, and it’s this: sometimes Westerners like me can forget that the target audience for Japanese anime is Japanese, not American or French or Scottish. When we criticize […] Read more
Nope, not my imagination – it’s definitely getting weirder. If you’d told me two months ago that Osomatsu-san was going to be a bigger hit than Haikyuu’s second season, I would have laughed almost as hard as I laughed watching this episode. But impossibly enough that’s exactly what Stalker is […] Read more
As the greatest Beatle said, Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. And you know it don’t come easy. Not if you’re Sawamura Eijun, anyway. In all honesty, I’m really not feeling this game. I’m not buying Furuya’s hero act, and I’m not buying that […] Read more
What one takes away from this episode hinges on, I expect, what one brings into it. I have no quibbles with this episode of Iron-Blooded Orphans, and I expect it’s going to be greeted quite favorably by the audience. No reason why it shouldn’t – it’s a very solid mecha […] Read more
Concrete Revolutio grows more compelling every week. There’s a crazy sort of brilliance to this series, I think. Make no mistake – it’s one of those “doomed to fail” shows Bones produces every so often, and seems destined to be on the honor roll of anime featuring the largest gulf […] Read more