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
Thursdays this season are one big challenge for me to put my money where my mouth is. A couple podcasts back the Random Curiosity gang and I played a round-table game I’d suggested, about what the one element was that tied all our favorite series together. It was an interesting […] Read more
It seems almost unfair to have two anime episodes this good airing on back-to-back days. For sheer brilliance, there are really only two anime series on the schedule right now, this one and Hunter X Hunter. There are other shows I like an awful lot, maybe even love, but as […] Read more
This show has more pan than my local bakery. I continue to find Ryo-timo’s approach to fanservice far more interesting than I probably should. It seems to me that there are fanservice shows in plenty, and then there are non-fanservice shows where a glimpse of panties is a shocking and […] Read more
I don’t want to say that episode was tense, but if the phone had rang while I was watching it I suspect I’d have bitten my hand off. Hunter X Hunter continues it’s longest stretch without Gon and Killua since the “York Shin” arc, but at least we had that […] Read more
As Harry Caray used to say, the big possums walk late… The motif for this episode was definitely chess. It’s not coincidental that military strategists have historically been good chess players, or that the game itself draws so heavily on the phraseology and indeed mindset of war (and the reverse […] Read more
Yowapeda is the fastest 22 minutes in anime, even on the climbs. This is a tough business, this competitive cycling. There’s a reason Grand Tour specialists who make their living in days or weeks-long endurance events have turned to PEDs so extensively that they’ve caused the sport incalculable damage in […] Read more
My name is Guardian Enzo, and I admit it – I really liked this episode. If I’d read a detailed description of this episode before I watched it, or hell, even the whole script, I would have bet a considerable sum of money that I wouldn’t have liked it as […] Read more
This constant examination and competition may be pretty heartless, but I can’t deny it really separates the wheat from the chaff. As I said last week, this training arc is a pretty good zone for Uchuu Kyoudai. Group dynamics and Mutta’s internal conflicts are the meat and potatoes of this […] Read more
We have met the enemy, and he is us. It’s 9:35 PM in Tokyo, and another excellent sports anime is going virtually unnoticed in the English-speaking world. I’m used to it by now but that doesn’t make it any less disappointing to me, yet it’s an inescapable fact – sports […] Read more