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Anime
DurararaX2! Shou – 09
Durarara! certainly is an interesting puzzle, in more ways than one. The thing is, DRRR is definitely starting to click for me, but the funny thing is I can’t say exactly why. It’s almost impossible for me to look at my positive reactions after an episode and my indifferent ones […] Read more
Diamond no Ace – 72
Well now, this is getting rather interesting. I must confess things took rather a different turn in this episode than I expected, though it was certainly a fascinating and tense one. Rather than a full-on focus on Eijun and Chris, they were merely the sideshow – the real story was […] Read more
Aldnoah.Zero – 21
This is starting to smell quite strongly of a tragic ending, at least for the principal characters. I’m sure the Sl-apologists will find a way to write off his actions this week just as they have all the others, but it’s hard to see much good left in Slaine at […] Read more
Death Parade – 09
That certainly answered some big questions. Way back after Episode #4 I raised the “Universe is kind of an asshole” question. That is, that it seemed quite reasonable to me that the average person would look at goes on at Quindecim and say it was a bloody awful way for […] Read more
Tokyo Ghoul √A – 09
Perhaps the most important thing I can say about that ep is that it was a lot better than I feared it was going to be. I’ll admit I was pretty pessimistic watching the first few minutes of this episode of Tokyo Ghoul √A. I really didn’t want to see […] Read more
Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu – 21
This week’s lesson from Kiseijuu: people die when they are killed. Uwah – that was certainly a mother of an episode. It pretty much ran the gamut of the human experience both primal and philosophical, took a stylistic turn around the track and threw in beheadings and a massive and […] Read more
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! – 09
Who knew it was so creepy when goldfish smile? Thus might just have been my favorite episode of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! yet, at least in terms of consistent laughs: Is saying someone is “air” really a compliment? Rigor mortis Great villain this time, and a great comic performance […] Read more
Akatsuki no Yona – 21
Akatsuki no Yona just keeps finding new ways to close the sale. For me at least, it’s almost always true that it’s more fun to watch superficially humble characters be GAR than generally overpowered ones. You can draw a parallel to sports anime, where most of the best protagonists are […] Read more
Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road – 20
I’ve heard of head-butting, but that’s taking it way too literally. If you’re a sports anime fan, you probably know the announcement that Diamond no Ace was unsurprisingly renewed for another season came this week (hopefully this will be some reward for all of the frustration we’ve endured these last […] Read more