Like Yosuga no Sora, Amagami is wrapping up it’s omnibus with the tsundere. And while this one may not be a twin, Ayatsuji takes a back seat to no one in the tsundere department. While for better or worse (I would say worse in most cases) the tsundere has taken […] Read more

So begins our final arc. We’ve had a loli arc, a sexy senpai arc, not one but two osananajimi arcs, and the spunky athletic girl arc. At last, we wrap up with the tightly-wound class president/overachiever with the hidden dark side. The right girl won… One thing this episode did […] Read more

I just can’t find it in myself to dislike this arc, or be irritated or even annoyed by it. Rihoko is likable enough and there’s nothing offensive about any of it. Problem is, it doesn’t really feel like a story – and certainly not a romantic one. I don’t think […] Read more

Oppai…Oppai… Two episodes in, the Rihoko arc is looking very reminiscent of the Kaoru arc. Old friends with an easy familiarity, a likable friendship, trivial problems and not much romantic spark. The Founder’s Festival comes halfway through this arc instead of at the end, as it did with the Ai […] Read more

Episode 17 brings a new arc, a new girl (Sakurai Rihoko) and a new ED featuring her. In addition, we get a slight change in format as Rihoko becomes the primary POV character, not Junichi. I’ve already expressed my reservations about the omnibus narrative style, on display in a more […] Read more

The Nanasaki Ai arc ended pleasantly enough this week, though it was a bit of an anti-climax (pun intended). The first half of the episode was taken entirely with Ai and Junichi manning the swim team’s oden booth at the Culture Festival, complete with visits from discerning senpai and drunken […] Read more

I prefer tonkotau, myself… That was certainly odd. Junichi invited Ai to a new amusement park, to which he was given tickets by a strange court jester who spoke Japanese with a bad accent. While in the haunted house he’s apparently sprayed by some sort of psychedelic gas from a […] Read more

Amagami SS continues to make a pretty solid comeback with episode 14, the second of the Ai arc. What this arc has going for it so far it that Junichi is considerably more likable than he was in either the second or third. This is probably his most “normal” persona […] Read more

With Shiki on hiatus, Kuroshitsuji finished and the fall season not quite upon us, it’s been a slow week on the anime front. So I thought I’d check back in with Amigami SS and see if things have picked up at all now that the underwhelming Sae arc has ended. […] Read more

That certainly was a surprise. In a radical shift from the first two arcs, Amigami SS turned into some sort of over-the-top romantic comedy. Instead of clumsy courtship we got a lot of sight gags, crotch humor and annoying voice-over narration. Even the animation style looked different to me, more […] Read more