I’m not so sure Kuroshitsuji isn’t the best new series of the season. I can’t help but wonder why more people aren’t watching Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus – or, if they are, why they aren’t talking about it. The series scores highly on sites like Anime-planet and MAL, and seems […] Read more
Color me intrigued (and a bit irked). An interesting thing happened with Zankyou no Terror this week. The series got sillier and less believable, and became considerably more engaging in the process. That whole heart/head equation that I’ve been talking up with this series is by no means an either-or […] Read more
Whatever else one might say about Tokyo Ghoul, you can’t argue that it doesn’t keep itself busy. It looks like Tokyo Ghoul is set to do pretty well commercially. The Stalker numbers look decent, and all of the back issues of the manga have started to chart again – always […] Read more
Mada nai, yo! Scratching another off the list of anime pilgrimages, I headed out to Chichibu today. In part I was hoping to catch a little break from the heat, but no luck there – despite its mountain setting it felt even hotter in Chichibu than Tokyo for some reason. […] Read more
That might just have been as much fun as any anime episode this season. This was one of the real “wow” episodes of the season for me, and there haven’t been many of them. It’s not that I necessarily liked it better than all the others, or that I didn’t […] Read more
List of people not to piss off: 3. Illumi Zoldyck 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 spoiler. Thanks for your cooperation. “Keep your […] Read more
Godzilla in Roppongi is just about right – Saki, Satoru and Kiromaru ran into just about everything else. Today was my birthday (still is, for another hour) so I dragged my aching back out of the flat and made a little circuit of the city and snapped a few pics. […] Read more
Where there’s BONES, there’s hope. It’s quite appropriate that on today of all days we got a Space Dandy written, directed and storyboarded by Oshiyama Kiyotaka. Why? Because on his sterling resume are several Studio Ghibli credits, and the Ghibli influence can be felt in “The Big Fish is Huge, […] Read more
Slide over Miura-san – make some room in the bad editors hall of fame. Since Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun seems like a pretty thorough satire of the manga industry, I guess it was only a matter of time before the subject of editors came up. And frankly, it was a bit […] Read more
More than ever, I’m glad I stuck around. I know the complaints about Captain Earth are never going to stop, and Lord knows it’s not a perfect series (though I would question why someone would want to stay with a series for 18 weeks just so they can repetitively bitch […] Read more