Remember – you can’t misspell “slain” with an extra “e” without “Slaine”. Where to begin with that one? The mind boggles, seriously. This series is a lot of things and not all of them are desirable, but one thing it certainly isn’t is boring. Aldnoah.Zero keeps the manic energy and […] Read more
When it comes to circuses, even the “normal” ones are pretty creepy. Throw in the mix of plot elements we see in Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus and you take the skeeve factor off the charts. As I’ve said before, I think this scenario is pretty much a perfect storm for […] Read more
Argevollen is definitely growing on me – and that’s not entirely unexpected. In mecha terms, Argevollen is definitely the ultimate racing tortoise. I don’t think that so much makes Aldnoah.Zero the hare, because pretty much every other mecha show is the hare. The plodding, relentless imperative of this series seems […] Read more
“Road of Thorns” I knew “Road of Thorns” was going to pack quite the emotional punch, but the anime adaptation certainly didn’t disappoint. It’s easy to see why Nagahama-sensei had originally planned to end the first season of “Zoku Shou” with this story, because there’s not much you could follow […] Read more
At what point do we judge art by an objective standard, and at what point by that of its creator? There are problems with Zankyou no Terror, don’t get me wrong – and I mean general problems, independent of any bias one might have by reading the staff list. But […] Read more
That was an interesting mix of the expected and the unexpected. I think the broad course of Tokyo Ghoul has been laid in from the very beginning, and even if the order of events has apparently been moved around some in the anime version, the first eight episodes have pretty […] Read more
Talk about a change in tone… I don’t think too many viewers will be surprised that this episode of Majimoji Rurumo was a vastly different experience than last week’s emotional haymaker. That was certainly the outlier, at least so far – but maybe not quite so much as it seems. […] Read more
I just wish this series would go on forever. Is that really so much to ask? Author’s Note: Please be very careful to avoid divulging any information about upcoming events from the manga. When in doubt, don’t post it, even if it’s remotely possible to view it as a minor […] Read more
To take the familiar and make it fresh is a rare ability, and one which Space Dandy has demonstrated over and over. We’re on familiar (you might even say hallowed) ground with this episode of Space Dandy, both in general and series-specific terms. Parody is the bread and butter of […] Read more
Wait – so those guys were there the whole time? It’s pretty hard to go wrong when you build an episode around Mikorin, and Gesshounoku certainly didn’t this week. But I have to confess that Nozaki-kun himself is starting to grow on me as a purely comic character. He’s one […] Read more