It’s a big season for mystery anime, but if you ask me this is the one that really matters. The funny thing about NoitaminA is that when it comes back with a series like Subete ga F ni Naru, it’s easy to imagine it’s never really left – you just […] Read more
Past, present and future are all in focus on this week’s Diamond no Ace. Read more
Who knew Osomatsu-san was going to be such a black comedy? Osomatsu-san – 03: This show is, if anything, getting weirder. And filthier too. With a switch to the short vignette format this week (seemingly temporary) inevitably the episode is going to have more ups and downs. The “Saw” spoof […] Read more
And so, the Sisyphus impersonation begins… After 12 hours of travel I’ve pretty much hit the wall, so about the best I can do is touch base briefly on what I’ve missed: Concrete Revolutio – 03: This remains one of the strangest shows of the year, but it’s so distinctive […] Read more
It’s easy to laugh if you’ve never lived through a Tokyo summer… I saw the Andes today for the first time. That took me quite a while to wrap my head around, to be honest, and made it pretty hard to focus on anything else. That includes anime, of course. […] Read more
Sometimes – as in Diamond no Ace this week – baseball is a game played mostly between the ears. Read more
Much more so than this first time around, Noragami has hit the ground running. Not much time to write, but I thought this week’s episode of Noragami Aragoto was so good that it’d be a shame not to at least check in. The Bishamon Arc is highly-regarded by fans of […] Read more
This is another one of those times when predictability is a good thing. Once again I’m compelled to say: I’m just not sure you can do traditional shounen any better than this. It’s not all that subtle, maybe a little sexist in a benign sort of way, loud and brash […] Read more
Greetings from Bogota! So it turns out the internet at this hotel is damn good and the co-workers and myself didn’t paint the town too dark a shade of red, so I thought I’d check in with a very brief (anything you get from me this week is likely to […] Read more
So – planes have wi-fi now. That’s kinda cool. Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru – 02 I haven’t quite figured out what I feel about Sakurako-san no Ashimoto yet. It’s a pretty familiar anime premise on paper, but an odd mix of elements in practice. There’s that […] Read more