Someone really needs to take Miki Shinichirou down a notch or two – he’s just making everybody else look mediocre lately. Once again, I can only offer no defense of Gingitsune, only the same explanation I gave last week – this sort of thing either works for you or it […] Read more
Growing pains, indeed. Why is it that baseball manga seem to come up with the most ridiculous versions of American names? You’d think as baseball fans the mangaka would have a better idea of what names are more common in the U.S. than the average Japanese, but for some reason […] Read more
For now at least, Space Brothers is all the way back, and it’s great to see. Episodes like this one are a reminder of why Uchuu Kyoudai has been one of the better anime of the last couple of years, and why Nanba Mutta has been one of the very […] Read more
What a fine bloody mess this is turning out to be. It’s a shame none of the central cast of WA2 has heard that old adage about ripping off the band-aid, because the longer this whole confrontation is deferred the worse the pain is going to be. I’ll give Kazusa […] Read more
They grow up so fast, don’t they? There may in fact be another significance to the name of this series and the titular gang at the heart of it, and while I certainly was suspicious of the significance of a a certain vehicle that’s cropped up as a motif a […] Read more
Rita was the first patron to commission a work, so Rita – here’s your haiku. Thanks again for your support. Rita requested any sports anime/manga as the theme, so I went global… “It’s All About the Pairings” Sports fans do exist, But if it’s sales you want Aim for fujoshi Read more
All work and no play makes L-Elf a dull boy. As we get closer to the end of this series one truth is certainly emerging – Valvrave is suffering. It doesn’t seem that any of the good guys are immune to it – dying, losing parents, being raped by friends […] Read more
This one went exactly as I expected, top to bottom. Here’s the results of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary poll. I figured that enough people only know the post-2005 reboot that the new Doctors would win, and that Tom Baker would emerge victorious among the oldies. For the record, here’s my […] Read more
This isn’t the show I expected to fly under the radar, but it’s funny how things work out. Nagi no Asukara had a fair amount of hype going into this season, but as the weeks have progressed it’s fallen behind other Thursday shows to the point where not many people […] Read more
To sum up my feelings about Samumenco, I can do no better than the words of Crazy-Eyez Killa. OK, so if that was bad coke or some kind of dream sequence happening at the end of last week’s episode, this week gave no indication of it. If anything the weirdness […] Read more