“Time Heist” I’ll be the first to admit I went into “Time Heist” with pretty modest expectations. The writer, Steve Thompson, has contributed two middling Who episodes – decent but not great. The overall standard of writing this season has been indifferent, and the premise seemed a bit of a […] Read more
“You x Only x Hurt…” The phenomenon of the “6” episodes is strong with Hunter X Hunter. Pretty much all the episodes of this series are great, but the ones that end in 6 have always tended to be epic in every sense of the word. And in terms of […] Read more
“King x and Prisoner” Let’s face it, when it comes to “Chimera Ant” it’s really almost harder to decide what episodes not to call milestones – but I can’t include them all. I picked this one for a number of reasons, but probably most of all because it’s a showcase […] Read more
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that troll coming… I had a pretty good season for sleepers this Summer. Two of my three picks (this series and Majimoji Rurumo) wound up being not just watchable but among the very best series of the season. It was also a good […] Read more
End? Yeah, right! If you’d told me one sports anime was going to have a second season end card today, I’d sure have bet on the one that didn’t rather than the one that did. But fans of Haikyuu!! (in honor of the final episode I’ll use the exclamation points, […] Read more
Never have I been happier to fill in the title line. I hardly know where to begin, really. I’m stunned, for starters. Flabbergasted. Elated. Grateful. Never happier to be wrong. When something you want very badly but seems so unlikely you don’t even allow yourself to hope for it happens, […] Read more
“Darkness x and x Light” Not even “Chimera Ant” can be relentlessly dark and morose for its entire length – that’s not the kind of series Hunter X Hunter is. It’s not a monotone, in some measure because of the brighter emotional spectrum that surrounds Gon. #87 an episode […] Read more
I’m sad to see Captain Earth come to an end, but on the plus side at least we won’t have to hear the nonstop bitching and complaining every week. Well, for a series that was more BONES than BONES in ways both good and bad, it seems only fitting that […] Read more
Welcome to the Barakamon I know, and haven’t seen as much of as I expected or hoped. To say that this was the best episode of Barakamon since the premiere seems self-evident to me, though I’m certain not everyone will agree. The effect of it, though, is that it feels […] Read more
Even if this isn’t the end, that was still a nice callback to the beginning. Because of the two-cour (for now) extension for the Daiya no A anime, we happily don’t have to look at this as the series wrapping up – along with Yowamushi Pedal it will carry the […] Read more