Watching Baby Steps, I really understand how Hanashima-san felt at this moment. I want to play… If there’s anything I can say against Baby Steps, it’s that watching or reading Ei-chan experience the game of tennis fills me with the overwhelming desire to go out and play it myself right […] Read more
If you’re a sports anime fan – or just a fan of good anime, period – don’t you dare forget about Diamond no Ace. There’s a lot of flashy and substantial sports series out there demanding our attention at the moment, and at no time has Diamond no Ace ever […] Read more
In space, no one can hear you emo. Even more so than in most BONES sci-fi, parental issues seem very much at the heart of Captain Earth. As such it only makes sense that Teppei would be added to the mix this week, with Akari as an accessory – she’s […] Read more
One cour series certainly have a unique set of problems to worry about. I’m still solidly of the opinion that Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is better served when it’s not too heavily focused on plot. It’s just not possible to hide the pacing concessions when a plot-driven arc is in […] Read more
The symbolism is thick with this one. Mushishi is fully back in the swing of things, and that means opening up the series to the darker side of existence now that the viewers have been gently reeled back in with three stories that run more towards the wistful and contemplative. […] Read more
Why can’t all of Sidonia no Kishi look like the eyecatches? Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou – 05 We’re almost at the halfway point of this series, so the decision really can’t be dragged out much longer. But more and more Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou is looking like one of those […] Read more
There’s an economy to Ping Pong that I find truly admirable, but that sure isn’t all I like about it. It strikes me that for someone who went into this series with no preconceptions whatsoever – about the sport of table tennis, about anime, about Yuasa Masaaki – Ping Pong […] Read more
This show really is a close call for me. Fittingly, this week’s episode of Hitsugi no Chaika was a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I would say that on the whole it was my favorite so far – certainly it was an improvement over last week’s. But […] Read more
Spring 2014 has behaved pretty predictably thus far, and that’s mostly a good thing. After the disappointment that was Winter 2014, anime really needed a good season both artistically and commercially. And while it will obviously be a while before we know how it fared on the latter score, this […] Read more
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