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
Watching this arc really is the agony and the ecstasy… I wrote a lot about last week’s episode, and I suspect next week’s is going to be impossible not to likewise discuss at length – so I feel as if I really need to control myself now. In my defense […] Read more
Shameless. Utterly shameless. There came a time, about halfway through this episode, when my thought process shifted from “They couldn’t possibly – could they?” to “Dammit – they’re going to do it, aren’t they?” And sure enough the vicious rat bastards did – they ended the episode exactly where I […] Read more
There are many ways to put a puzzle together, I suppose. There have been quite a few revelations in Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta, but nothing I’d really call a surprise. All of the exposition has more or less followed the expected course so far, which can either be taken […] Read more
If this season’s Xin had a theme song, I suspect it would be “Lola”. The countdown to the end of Kingdom’s second season continues, and like so many I’ll be hoping for a continuation announcement at the end (or soon after). We may be 74 episodes in but this truly […] Read more
I suspect this episode was exactly what many semi-gruntled Space Dandy viewers were waiting for. I decided to re-watch last week’s excellent Space Dandy in the English version, just to give it another chance to impress me. To be honest I still don’t see what folks are talking about – […] Read more
Noragami continues to deliver right on schedule. Not only is this the only new full-length series this season that hasn’t really had an off week, Noragami seems to have raised its game to another level in the last two episodes. There’s not an element of the show that isn’t working […] Read more
Anyway you slice it, that ep was a cracker. Now that’s how you rebound from an off week. I wasn’t too worried about last week’s off episode because Ace of Diamond has been pretty darn consistent, but nevertheless it’s great to see the show follow it up with one of […] Read more