My appreciation for this series – and what MAPPA is doing with it – only grows over time. The thing about Ushio to Tora is this – it’s just really, really good. It’s not a fancy series and it doesn’t require any fancy analysis to explain why it’s so good […] Read more
Top-quality ramen at ¥100 for a soul? That’s actually not a bad deal. In case you haven’t heard, the “major announcement” for Kyoukai no Rinne turned out to be what most of us were hoping it would – a second season. That will premiere in Spring of 2016 with the […] Read more
Just who is the female lead here, anyway? Nagisa is making a pretty strong case… Read more
Do you get it now, Kataoka? That’s why you shouldn’t bunt all the damn time. Diamond no Ace S2 #24 is here… Read more
Seeing it made to look so easy tends to make us forget how hard it actually is. I think it’s best to look at last week’s Akagami no Shirayukihime as if the last two minutes were all that really mattered, both because the rest of it was so forgettable and […] Read more
Flushing Meadows and the Kanto Junior aren’t the only places where it’s Showdown Sunday… Arslan Senki had a resolutely discernible strategy for this episode – simplify. There’s been a lot of preamble, politics and permutations building up to this point, but that was pretty much all stripped away this week, […] Read more
I’m still not buying the natto thing, and tomalley? Blech. But the rest of this week’s Shokugeki no Souma was pretty tasty. Read more
It’s great to have Gangsta back, but it sure isn’t getting any easier to watch. I did a short piece on Manglobe for MAL recently, and it really hammered home for me just how unusual this studio is. I won’t go so far as to say every show they make […] Read more
Cue the endgame. As I type this, the clock is ticking down towards what should be one of the best matches men’s tennis has seen in years – Djokovic and Federer in the U.S. Open final. These two have clearly been the best players not just this tournament but this […] Read more
Well, I confess I didn’t see that coming. Working!!! may be the anime that breaks (or at least bends) all the rules when it comes to relationships, but it’s still an anime – so you didn’t expect things to fall into place all that easily, did you? Heck, one might […] Read more