This season has been marked by quite a few shows whose meat and potatoes is over-the-top silliness – Koutetsujou no Kabaneri, Mayoiga, and Kizvaiver to name but a few. Kabaneri certainly takes the prize in terms of spectacle, but it seems to me as if Big Order is the series […] Read more
The B-couple here is way more interesting than the A-couple, though whether that’s on purpose or not I have no idea. Read more
“Never a dull moment” is an overused phrase, but with Ushio and Tora it really fits. Read more
As strong as this episode of Bungou Stray Dogs was, it still leaves me wholly conflicted. Read more
I’m starting to get to the point of the season where I think about what are the keepers, the drops and the “maybes”. As it happens I like Sousei no Onmyouji quite a lot – enough to keep watching it, certainly – though in terms of blogging I think I’d […] Read more
Just for fun I thought I’d wait a couple of weeks before doing a post on the poll results this time, to see how we all did. Read more
We’ve known it from the beginning, but the politics of Joker Game are pretty complicated. Read more
If there were ever a series that was destined to be either ignored or abjectly derided by Western anime fans, it’s surely Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou. Read more
In many ways, I think Boku no Hero Academia is like the perfect platonic ideal of a shounen series. Read more
Not only is Tanaka-kun both really smart and really funny, I think it actually has a lot to offer genre fans – especially since it crosses over into several different genres. Read more