I’m kind of running out of things to say about Samumenco, and that’s never a good sign. NoitaminA is going into its normal winter hibernation and Samurai Flamenco will be back on the 9th of January, but I’m not so sure I’ll be back with it. For all the on-screen […] Read more
Okada-sensei, you’ve really got it working here – for the love of Goc, please don’t screw it up. It’s always a little scary putting yourself in the hands of Okada Mari, especially on an original series, especially a two-cour. She’s a literary seductress, so alluring and able to draw you […] Read more
Don’t take this the wrong way, but this break couldn’t have come at a better time for Golden Time. GT is taking a two-week break for the holidays, and while that normally annoys me, in this case I think it’s a good thing. I confess, while I’m still very much […] Read more
If great characters make a story, then any set in this mythology has a massive head start. OP: “Anata no Eranda Kono Toki wo (あなたの選んだこの時を)” by Kanako Ito Fuka Ryouiki no Deja vu is neither indispensable to the Steins;Gate franchise, or a great story in its own right. That said, […] Read more
Boy, talk about a mood shift… It seems a bit odd to watch the “Sekai no Saitou” OVA right after the 11th episode of Refrain, but that’s just the way the timing worked out. You could hardly draw up two episodes that more effectively highlight this series in its polar […] Read more
An interesting book, but I thought the ending was a bit abrupt. As OVAs go, this was a pretty good one. It was plot-relevant for starters, which is rare-enough, though the fact that Attack on Titan is an ongoing series has something to do with that. It was also competently […] Read more
I don’t want to say that episode was tense, but if my phone had rang my upstairs neighbor would have seen something like this… As arcs go, “Chimera Ant” pretty much redefines epic. It’s epic in terms of length, it’s epic in terms of scale, and it’s epic in terms […] Read more
The Winter 2014 season promises some very good second cours of Fall 2013 shows – and thank goodness for that. Winter isn’t normally one of the highlights of the anime year – it and summer are pretty much a crapshoot. You get fewer series to begin with, which cuts down […] Read more
What a marvelous dichotomy this episode of Kingdom presented. To be clear, Kingdom the manga/anime isn’t history – it’s historical fiction. Who knows how things really played out on these battlefields – but in the end it doesn’t matter, because all we’ll ever know about those moments is what’s trickled […] Read more
How do you solve a problem like Mari? Pocari Sweat was one of three readers who made the biggest contribution to LiA, and had a request – a post on the topic of one of anime’s most powerful and controversial writers, Okada Mari. Not an easy commission, mind you – […] Read more