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
There are all sorts of lessons in this episode – for characters, writers and producers alike. This was a big episode for Gin no Saji in many ways, and it came with a lot of expectations as a result. I would argue that they were largely met, mainly because the […] Read more
That’s certainly a new meaning of the word “asshat”. Winter 2014 is shaping up as the worst season in the Blu-ray era for anime sales (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though that’s a topic for a full post). But not for all of them – 3 of the top […] Read more
Dammit, my world just doesn’t make sense any more. This is what Nagi no Asukara has reduced me to – I’m happy to see Yoshino Hiroyuki’s name attached to an episode. That just should never happen, but so it is here – down is up, right is left, and Yoshino […] Read more
Nadavu signed on at a Patreon patron and asked for a poem on the subject of spoilers. Harder than it sounds… “Best by Date” Spoilers? Yeah, they suck And pretending they’re guesses, Ain’t foolin’ no one Read more
That really hit the spot. The timing for watching the Yowapeda “Special Ride” OVA was perfect – which is odd, considering it was originally released (though never subbed) some months before the anime began. It works much better now, not least because it’s set in the days after the Souhoku […] Read more
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