Election season is heating up on Shokugeki no Souma, but the biggest dogs are still mostly playing it cool. Read more
Anime
Arslan Senki – 21
If you gotta be cruel to be kind, our young prince still has a long way to go. In many ways, Arslan Senki has a lot in common with Baby Steps, and it makes a fine companion piece for these Saturdays that are disproportionately the home of good anime this […] Read more
Gangsta – 09
To quote Sly Stone, it’s a family affair. The “Siblings” this episode title referred to weren’t the ones I expected (mostly anyway), but Gangsta has a way of tying everything together so elegantly that you’re amazed you didn’t see it coming from the beginning. The familial theme permeates everything about […] Read more
Baby Steps Season 2 – 22
If there were a school for aspiring sports mangaka, Baby Steps should be a required course. It’s never been harder to write about this show knowing what’s coming than it is right now, because we’re being reminded of just how good it is as building up the moment. There are […] Read more
Working!!! – 09
Working isn’t done stirring the pot yet – not by a long shot. It’s pretty remarkable just how much Working!!! has upped the ante when it comes to plot this season, and just as much so that it’s done it without stepping on the series’ comic effectiveness. The hits just […] Read more
Ushio to Tora – 09
Ushio and Tora rebounds nicely this week, despite the obvious handicap. I wasn’t as keen on last week’s episode of Ushio to Tora as I was the first seven, though it’s all relative – even weak UshiTora is above-average anime. But it wasn’t what I’ve come to expect from this […] Read more
Joukamachi no Dandelion – 09
I wouldn’t mind hearing from the cat every once in a while – why hire Hayami Sho if you aren’t going to use him? Vote Borscht, 2015. So anyway, after a whiplash-inducing quality swing the last two weeks, we got an episode here that was somewhere in the middle. I […] Read more
Kyoukai no Rinne – 21
Did my eyes deceive me, or did things just work out for Rinne in the end? It’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, but I think there’s a kind of commonality between Kyoukai no Rinne and Jitsu wa Watash wa. While the style of humor could hardly be more different, both […] Read more
Ore Monogatari!! – 21
Well, that was definitely worth the wait. After 20 episodes of build-up, the moment has finally come. Happily, Ore Monogatari wasn’t trolling us, and we really did get an episode about Suna’s heart (I had a nagging fear right up to the end that we were being teased and tortured). […] Read more
Jitsu wa Watashi wa – 08
As anime goes, it just doesn’t get much more unapologetically stupid than Jitsu wa Watashi wa Episode 8. I’m down with that. Read more