That’s the best kind of anime ending – one that isn’t an ending at all. How nice it is to be able to write about the final episode of Kyoukai no Rinne knowing there’ll be two more cours starting next spring. Anime is a funny business – this is an […] Read more
I just wanted to give you all a heads up that this week’s MAL posts (Diamond no Ace, Jitsu wa Watashi wa – there was no Souma ep this week) are going to be a couple of days late. Why? It’s Silver Week in Japan (kind of a slimmed-down autumn […] Read more
I really there’s been no anime in a very long time that gets as much from so little asAkagami no Shirayukihime. This is the season finale of Akagami no Shirayukihime, which thanks to its split-cour format is off until January (which makes it ineligible for the year-end Top 10 list, […] Read more
My goodness, Lidenfilms – I didn’t think you had it in you… The mantle pretty much falls to Arslan Senki for a Sunday anime that actually has a chance to see a real ending. Yeah, we’re already through the manga and into novel material, and even though the novel series […] Read more
How can a series so ugly on so many levels still manage to be beautiful sometimes? I guess this is the day to lament manga adaptations which end in the middle of the story with no hope of a sequel (Arslan Senki isn’t quite hopeless, at least). No, I have […] Read more
Bear with me – I just need a minute… Well, this was a pretty sad day for Baby Steps fans. In my case it wasn’t the result of Ei-chan’s match with Nabae, because of course I knew that was coming. But the lack of an announcement at the end of […] Read more
A nice appetizer, Taifuuu no Noruda really makes you long for the missing main course. When I first saw the promo art for this theatrical feature from the relatively obscure Studio Colorado, I was pretty excited. I mean, it was beautiful (the subsequent trailers even more so), it had a […] Read more
If Akagami no Shirayukihime is great at making the normal seem exceptional, I think Working is great at making the exceptional seem normal. Stepping back and really looking at it, I think it’s hard not to be impressed with the third season of Working. It’s managed to raise the stakes […] Read more
In the words of Newman, “What took you so long?” This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. Maybe I need to write articles suggesting manga adaptations more often? I really have no idea why this hasn’t happened before now. March Comes in Like a Lion […] Read more
In the end Joukamachi no Dandelion didn’t offer up too many surprises, but that’s by no means strictly a bad thing. You know, expectations are merely prejudices when you strip away all the artifice. Did Joukamachi no Dandelion live up to mine? Did it surpass them? It doesn’t really matter […] Read more