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
Another impressive episode of Kakumeiki Valvrave, but boy – they’ve sure left themselves a lot to do in just a week. There are myriad timeless expressions that fit the master plan L-Elf came up with to strike back at the rotten core of Dorssia. Hoist by their petard, turnabout is […] Read more
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