Oh yeah, Yokoi is hopelessly ensnared now. Tonari no Seki-kun – 19 The little show that could just keeps delivering. This is very much the same sort of impact the manga has – it’s just these brilliant little observations one right after the other, wearing down your resistance until you’re […] Read more
There’s something deeply wrong about this series, and I hope there’s no cure. As always, Gokukoku no Brynhildr delivers on the meme material. This time around: “Her hands and feet are still attached, so she she should be fine.” Maybe the best part about that, though, was that Ryouta reacted […] Read more
Looks like Kaori-chan better watch her back – she has some competition in the Hase department. Can a single character – or seiyuu performance – ruin an otherwise good show for someone? It’s an interesting question, and in the abstract my experience tells me that the answer is absolutely “yes” […] Read more
Never, ever underestimate the importance of simple, straightforward fun. It would be hard to overestimate just how infectious Haikyuu is. Six episodes in and it hasn’t lost any of the momentum it blew onto the scene with in the full-bore premiere – there have been a few gradients of success, […] Read more
Baby Steps is still Baby Steps, and I couldn’t be more pleased. Before we begin, this seems like the right post to pass along congratulations to Nishikori Kei, who this week achieved a major milestone – he became the first Japanese man to break into the Top 10 in the […] Read more
The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but straight lines just aren’t the way of BONES sci-fi. We’re getting there, slowly but surely – the pieces are starting to fit together with Captain Earth. I admit there were a few things I completely got wrong – […] Read more
Enter the…. Well, whatever the hell Raichi is. Brat? It’s a complete change-of-pace for Ace of Diamond this week. We bid a fond farewell to Yeung and Akikawa, obviously, but also largely set the main characters to the side in favor of a focus on the game that will determine […] Read more
The most damning of all faint praise – “it could have been worse”… Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii – 06 I was tempted to limit my review of Soredemo Sekai to a single sentence this week – “The less I say about this episode the better.” But the truth is by […] Read more
Now that’s presenting taking the piss in a wholly different light. In the time I’ve been blogging, no show has ever survived “On the Respirator” status in the season check-in post. But Sidonia no Kishi might just be the first one, if the last two episodes are any indication. I […] Read more
I’ll never o-hanami the same way again. One of the dirty little secrets about Mushishi is that most of the time, it’s not really about Mushi but about people. Each story is like a self-contained parable about the vagaries of human nature – our hopes and dreams, our capacity for […] Read more