This series is doing an admirable job with the final lines of episodes. Witch Craft Works lost its usual digest partner this week thanks to the Olympics pre-empting Seki-kun (which explains its double episode last week). So forgive me if this post is a bit short – I quite enjoy […] Read more
I just about ran out of space on my notepad following that episode. The news that Kingdom’s second season is ending after 39 episodes became official this week. That was wholly expected, but there’d been some hope that we might see an S3 announcement at the same time. The fact […] Read more
The torture continues… At this moment it’s utterly pointless to compare Hunter X Hunter with anything else currently airing. It’s a combination of the fact that H x H is at a ridiculous level and the fact that we’re in the midst of a historically weak season, but I […] Read more
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that coming. I’m not going to sprain my shoulder patting myself on the back for getting the events of this episode exactly right last week – though I did, right down to the timing and the identity of the deceased. Fact is your […] Read more
Don’t lie – I know most of you were singing it in the shower the last time you heard it in an episode… Yowapeda is back in a much more mischievous and balanced mode, with the non-stop intensity of the training camp behind us. Plotquakes aside that was a very […] Read more
My God – it’s full of stars… Space Dandy is managing to do something pretty rare in anime, and that’s not repeat itself. Part of that comes from the HEIII/reset button format (though Meow actually snuck a little continuity into the mix this week just for a nano) but it […] Read more
Another week, another rock-solid episode of Noragami. You know the drill – every week Noragami just delivers the goods. More than any new show this season this is the one that’s managed to evade the usual peaks and valleys – in fact, I’d go so far as to say the […] Read more
I’d recognize that voice anywhere… It’s all about separating the wheat from the chaff on this week’s Daiya no A. Everything in Japanese high school baseball is about getting to Summer Koushien at any cost (it’s probably the most popular single sporting event in Japan, including the Olympics and World […] Read more
Thank goodness for Eddie Jay. Interesting news this week – a new series (Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo, so technically a new old series) will be taking over Uchuu Kyoudai’s timeslot in April. There’s been no announcement that Space Brothers will be ending, but a timeslot change seems unlikely at this […] Read more
Any day with Natsume Yuujinchou in it is a good day. It’s an auspicious winter indeed that brings us new Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi both, and we’ve had two Natsume OVAs and a Mushishi TV special in the span of about a month. Even better was the announcement that Mushishi […] Read more