Are you sure you wanted to take a week off with so much competition, Daiya no A? There’s a great moment of self-parody – no one does self-parody quite like Adachi – in Cross Game (only the manga, sadly) where Aoba is recuperating from her broken leg in the hospital […] Read more
I suppose understanding what was going on for two straight weeks in a BONES sci-fi original was a non-starter… One of the most frustrating yet enticing things about BONES projects like Captain Earth is the constant struggle to try and make sense of all the myriad twists and turns and […] Read more
When in doubt, blame religion… I would say this episode of Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii didn’t work quite as well as the previous three, though I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I think it’s pretty easy to say why, at least for my part. What I enjoy most about […] Read more
Mushishi is re-introducing itself to the world, shade by shade. To follow up on my analogy of last week, Mushishi as a series seems more than ever like a painting – one where we’re privileged to see the brushstrokes applied every week. Every color is part of what defines the […] Read more
The sport of Ping Pong isn’t the only thing one could learn a lot about from watching this series. Absolutely fascinating, this show is – subtle, intense, funny, challenging. It’s ugly as Yuasa anime usually are, but it has a kind of beauty to it too – the kind of […] Read more
It has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, but wherever this is, I want to go there ASAP. I’m straddling so many fences I’m starting to worry about groin pulls, but Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou is yet another show I’m not quite decided on. It’s close – […] Read more
There’s just no substitutive for talent. Anime Mirai has been good for one really solid effort every tear – Oji-san no Lamp and Death Billiards from the last two – and while Harmonie is the first of the 2014 offerings that I’ve watched, if one of the other three tops […] Read more
Nope, still not sure one way or the other. I want to like Hitsugi no Chaika and I sort of do, but there just isn’t quite enough here to close the sale yet. To be honest I found this episode to be a bit on the boring side, though there […] Read more
Oh, God – back to Trost? It’s really not as bad as all that – in fact, this OVA was rather enjoyable in a lighthearted sort of way. It’s just that the word “Trost” sends shivers down my spine after the endless cycle of time-wasting the Shingeki no Kyoujin anime […] Read more
So Okada Mari and Satou Junichi got together to do a mecha anime… Wait – who did what, now? A confession – I really shouldn’t have watched this week’s Hunter X Hunter before watching M3 (or any other show). But the fact is I didn’t want to wait any longer […] Read more