In the annals of anime fandom, no words so often unjustly doom a series as “That’s a kid’s show, right?” Spring is finally here with the first official LIA premiere of the season (unless you count the Anime Japan Mushishi screening) and it’s a show that wasn’t prominent on my […] Read more
Anime is starting to get the kinks worked out of this short-format anime thing… In honor of Tonari no Seki-kun ending (for now) I ate dinner at Tonari Ramen last night (a local tanmen chain – very delicious). Happily this isn’t really the end, as the DVDs are going to […] Read more
Togashi Yoshihiro continues to be the sorting hat of mangaka. with the help of Madhouse and Koujina-sensei. This is a landmark episode of Hunter X Hunter, though only for personal reasons. It’s the first time in at least a year (to be honest I can’t remember the last time) that […] Read more
That was mostly predictable, but mostly in a good way. Mostly. Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta could be a poster child for any number of phrases: a mixed bag. Scratching the surface. Leaving a lot on the table. In sum, there’s an awful lot that can be picked apart with […] Read more
“Chimera Ant” has nothing on Yowamushi Pedal. Forgive the briefness of this post, as it’s pushing Midnight here already and tomorrow is another full day of travel. Time is a theme here, because this episode of Yowapeda continues the presentation of perhaps the longest 400 meters in sports history. The […] Read more
Sometimes we can only appreciate a series fully when we can look back on it as a whole. Yeah, right – as if… Read more
Space Dandy finishes its first season pretty much where I expected it to back when it all started. There were definitely some peaks and valleys in the first cour of Space Dandy, which are inherent in the style with which it chose to tell its story. But in the end […] Read more
Let the torture begin. In today’s anime reality one-cour series are the norm, but sports manga adaptations are a different animal. They’re a throwback in that way – a series like Daiya no A effectively takes two full cours just to exposit the prologue, and is only now getting down […] Read more
Here’s some good news – a bonus episode of Hoozuki no Reitetsu. It had been widely reported – at least in every source I saw – that Hoozuki no Reitetsu was going to be 12 episodes long. Happily, there’s going to be a 13th next week (one which I assume […] Read more
That was a stellar ending – but surely, we had no reason to expect anything less. Final episodes of really good anime can inspire a wade range of emotions in me. But I know I’ve experienced a truly special series when the dominant feeling is gratitude – only the very […] Read more