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
How can a kid with such great language skills have no much trouble with one two letter word? Boy, was that episode ever a tale of two halves. The A-part was very much a continuation of the mostly slice-of-life mode that the series has been in for the second season, […] Read more
Yep, definitely the oddest series of the season… I’m glad I don’t have to work on this series’ marketing campaign for Sentai Filmworks, because I wouldn’t want the job of trying to sell this series for all the caterpillar fungus in China. I have a suspicion anyone still watching it […] Read more
Well – baby steps, I suppose. Nishimura Junji (director of True Tears) is the credited screenwriter for this episode, which should be a good sign any way you look at it. Of course he also wrote some of the most inane episodes of Hanasaku Iroha and some of the best […] Read more
What is it about these Shinto series and 4th episodes? I’m not trying to make Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha into something it isn’t. I recognize that this show isn’t – for example – Gingitsune, or even Natsume Yuujinchou. This is a conventionally plot-driven romance-oriented series with broad comedy that happens […] Read more
That was a new spin on identity theft. Witch Craft Works – 05 The danger of any show whose primary appeal (for me, anyway) is randomness is that when it focuses on plot or character – or, God forbid, starts to make sense – some of the magic is gone. […] Read more