In every way, PuPiPo! is just the appetizer. I was disappointed to see that PuPiPo! is going to be a three minute series, because I like mangaka Oshikiri Rensuke and I thought this had some sleeper potential. I’m not going to blog a three-minute series, but I did want to […] Read more
Pocari Sweat (who already contributed via Paypal) came through by signing on as a Patreon patron, so as promised – the floor is yours! Without further ado, here’s Pocari’s top 10 list. I’ll refrain from commenting so as not to potentially spoil my own… 10. Pycho Pass9. To Aru no […] Read more
That was the simple and profound ending that Gingitsune richly deserved. I was deeply moved by the last moments of this episode, and when a show can do that to me without anything overtly emotional happening, I know the writing is top-notch. It’s obvious enough why someone might be moved […] Read more
That was some hard-core shounen sports drama right there. The unspoken mathematical elephant in the room finally got spoken this week. Two spots, three players – something had to give. Perhaps that something was Chris’ shoulder, but that remains to be seen. There was plenty of drama leading up to […] Read more
Let the bloodletting begin – but as usual, it will completely miss the point. I’m not going to use the pretext of yet another stellar episode of White Album 2 to dump on Golden Time. That series is still reaching me on a visceral level and I respect that, but […] Read more
Time to dust off the spoiler warning again… To be honest, I’m not sure what I was expecting after last week’s emotional typhoon of an episode. I suppose I wasn’t really thinking that far ahead, because I was so emotionally drained after that ep, especially the last 10 minutes. I […] Read more
It’s Shueshia’s world – they just let us use it. I didn’t go to Jump Festa last year – I was still pretty new to Japan, and Chiba seemed a lot farther away than it really is (about an hour with one transfer to Makuhari Messe, ¥480). In truth I’m […] Read more
Shirokuma Cafe doesn’t need to worry about its bad pun throne. Looks like next week could be a big one for Space Brothers, one of those watershed episodes the series builds up to every cour or so. We may see Hibito at last confess the truth to Mutta about his […] Read more
How can you not like an anime where the hero spends part of the finale in an “All Your Base are Belong to Us” T-shirt? I’m not going to pretend for a moment that Outbreak Company was especially brilliant or profound, but given that I covered a few episodes and […] Read more
The worst thing about any great series is obvious – that it ends. Kyousougiga hasn’t been a conventional anime series in any way, shape or form since the very beginning – not in terms of medium, narrative structure, themes or sheer quality – so it’s no surprise that the ending […] Read more