Clarke’s Law is quite the hot topic in anime this week… After spending most of the season focused on what one might loosely call “magic” – a heady cocktail of Shinto and Chinese mythology mixed with shounen anime canon – Ushio and Tora takes a somewhat surprising turn to close […] Read more

I hope that’s not how the real Einstein got so smart… Author’s Note: Apologies for the paucity of images while I search for a workaround and/or wait for the new open source WLW to play friendly with Blogger. Even the breather episodes of Ushio & Tora are still pretty jam-packed […] Read more

There’s an awful lot of symbolism at play in this week’s episode of Ushio to Tora. It’s hard to believe we’re already staring down the barrel of Episode 24, because this series has flown by in what seems like the blink of an eye. I think that’s a particular advantage […] Read more

And here I thought Ging Freecs was a bad dad… Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all of LiA’s readers in America.  But if you were looking for a turkey, you were looking in the wrong place with Ushio & Tora – as usual this week’s episode was on-point, seeming to fly […] 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

If that wasn’t the best anime episode I’ve seen all year, it sure would be in the conversation. I don’t say this often – in fact this may very well be the first time I’ve said it – but that episode was Hunter X Hunter caliber shounen.  That may be […] Read more