This show is starting to give me whiplash. Every time I’ve started to wonder about Inari Konkon it’s done something to convince me it’s a keeper, and every time I’ve been convinced it’s done something to make me doubt it. Inconsistency is a staple of the majority of anime, of […] Read more
Even in the wake of possibly the best anime episode in the last year, the rest of the schedule does soldier on… Tonari no Seki-Kun – 6/7 Honestly, an episode like this week’s Hunter X Hunter pretty much ruins me for other anime for a while. It’s so completely on […] Read more
Do I really need to say anything? I needed some time after watching that episode before I could even begin to give order to my reactions. Not least of which because I was physically shaking when it ended – even now I’m still trembling a bit. It’s truly astonishing that […] Read more
That blush can only mean one thing… This episode could easily have been titled “The Burdens of the Strategist”, because that was the essence of the message it conveyed. It all comes back to that hostility thing Meng Tian talked about, I suppose – that, and the fact that no […] Read more
Well, that was odd. I’ve made note of the somewhat unorthodox approach to storytelling of Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta – “quite an unusual narrative style” was how I put it past week – and that was certainly in evidence here. Again we have an episode that was quite good […] Read more
Low-key, that was not. No question about it, sports can be a brutal lesson in the unsentimental nature of fate – just ask Tom Watson. That, and a reminder of the hard truth that more often than not, talent wins out in the end. That said, I was never too […] Read more
And back off the grid we go… Turns out last week’s trip to relative normalcy was a short-lived one for Space Dandy, which is squarely back in surrealist mode this week. Episode 5 was certainly a pleasant interlude and the positive response (though rather Pavlovian) not underserved. But that […] Read more
The course we seem to be on is not at all an unexpected one. The slow turn of Noragami to the dark side is actually not a turn at all, since that darkness has always existed side-by-side with the very effective comedy. Nevertheless it’s been impossible not to pick up […] Read more
There’s definitely a method to Miyuki’s madness, but madness it is. In case anyone has any doubts about the importance of pitching inside, here’s a noted baseball expert explaining why it’s so important. “I own the inside of that plate” indeed – especially for a guy with no breaking pitches, […] Read more
I keep recycling the quote from Jerry Seinfeld, but nothing else feels so right for situations like this: it’s so nice when it happens good… This was, for me, by far the best Space Brothers episode among all the ones that have omitted Mutta (or almost omitted, in this case). […] Read more