Saturday is definitely the right day of the week here. World Trigger – 01 Phanfone (that has to be one of the strangest typhoon names ever) continues to bear down on Japan, my sisters continue to run me ragged, my body continues to expunge the unsightly residue of a weeklong […] Read more
Yup, still 1977. I’m still extremely pressed for time and the interesting premieres are starting to come hot and heavy now, so I can’t spare a lot of time on Reconguista in G for the moment. I did want to mention that I watched the second ep and found it […] Read more
I certainly appreciate Denkigai no Honya-san a lot more than I would have before I moved to Tokyo. I knew Denkigai no Honya-san was broadly a parody of life in a comic store in an Akihabara-like neighborhood, but I had no idea that it was going to be so nakedly […] Read more
I know I’ve been running a fever and all, but I didn’t expect to hallucinate that it was 1977. While my cold seems to be in retreat, it’s Midnight and I’m utterly exhausted from tour-guiding my sisters, with more posts to go, so just a brief first impression sampling today. […] Read more
“The Caretaker” Brief touch-base on Doctor Who this week, for reasons I’ve already covered. But the usual disclaimer applies – don’t mistake the length of the post for the fondness towards the episode. I thought this was rather a good one – probably the second-best of the season after “Listen”, […] Read more
Apparently, H x H fans believe in redemption… Hunter X Hunter: Chimera Ant Character Poll Part I (Choose up to 2) Read more
Of all the qualities that make up great anime, there’s perhaps none more critical than imagination. This has been quite the challenging week. Fighting a full-on Japanese viral infection while having to play tour guide to two sisters on their first trip to Japan has left me desiccated and exhausted. […] Read more
Please forgive the timing, but Togashi Yoshihiro is like this site’s Ken Burns… Those of you who have been around a while know that I instituted a few ways to support LiA. This was out of necessity, as I had no choice but to try and justify the truly insane […] Read more
As with Zankyou no Terror, a major problem with Barakamon was expectations. As I mentioned in the Daiya post, my sisters are in town from the USA just as I’ve been hit with a bad cold, so posts are going to be shorter than normal and possibly not quite as […] Read more
Once more Ace of Diamond creeps forward and looks backward. Let me just begin this post by apologizing for its brevity. My sisters are visiting from America, and as luck would have it, on the day of their arrival I finally caught the cold that’s been sweeping though my school […] Read more