In hindsight both the school festival arc and this brief taste of the future which followed it are vintage Horikoshi. Read more
Anime
First Impressions – Listeners
I can’t help but feel a certain nostalgic fondness for Listeners. Read more
Haikyuu!! To The Top – 13 (Season Finale)
That last part is important, Shouyou. Read more
First Impressions – Nami yo Kiite Kure
We’re gonna need a bigger bubble. Read more
First Impressions – Kakushigoto
This premiere did a lot of things right, but a problem for me is that the whole premise is highly dubious – just how much of a problem that turns out to be remains to be seen. Read more
First Impressions – Kami no Tou: Tower of God
It’s complicated. Read more
Pet – 13 (End) and Series Review
That was certainly a suitably WTF ending for this series – anything less would have been a letdown I suppose. Read more
First (and Second) Impressions – Appare-Ranman!
Anime gets even contemporary America so hilariously wrong that it should be interesting to see how PAW does with this setting. Read more
BNA: Brand New Animal – 05-06
That’s one graven idol. Read more
Gegege no Kitarou (2018) – 97 (End) and Series Review
I think to understand Kitarou’s dilemma as a character, you have to view him through the context of Mizuki Shigeru’s life experience. Read more