Wait – I thought Okada Mari was Head of Trap Development? Two straight intros for Kill la Kill with Okada trap jokes? It’s a coincidence I promise you (and content-relevant), but symptomatic of the fact that it really is getting harder and harder to talk about this show in any […] Read more
Here’s a link to a short interview BONES founder Minami Masahiko gave recently. I love BONES, as longtime readers here know, and Minami-san is one of the most important figures in modern anime. I think this gives an idea as to why BONES is a special company, and just what […] Read more
I’ve just realized – we’re four episodes in and none of the male characters has cross-dressed yet. But don’t worry – an episode like this proves we’re solidly in Okada’s hands. I’m still very much in Nagi no Asukara’s camp – I like the straightforward emotions at play here, which […] Read more
If there’s a phrase that keeps running through my mind as this week’s anime has played out, it’s “the plot thickens”… It’s been quite clear right from the beginning that Golden Time was speaking a different language than the legions of teen romance series that anime has offered up over […] Read more
There’s a rumor flying around that Manglobe is about to go broke, to which I can only ask: what’s taken so long? Manglobe has a long and august history of producing fascinating and offbeat anime that absolutely crater commercially (not least in NoitaminA, where it did so with Sarai-ya Goyou). […] Read more
Breaking up is hard to do… Tokyo Ravens – 03 Tokyo Ravens is still a series I want to like – and there are parts of it I do like – but it has two huge flaws that are proving hard for me to overcome: too much bad CGI and […] Read more
Kyousogiga continues to be the best new series of the fall, with no signs of slowing down. In any given season there are always a few series that can fully engage me on an intellectual level, and a few that can do so on an emotional level. But the list […] Read more
Never underestimate the power of bro-hood, ~degeso. It seems only fitting that Hunter X Hunter 101 should be a survey course in great anime. It’s all here – the ruthless, chilling and jet-black hilarious brilliance that makes H x H the masterpiece that it is. We also got a fair […] Read more
Yowamushi Pedal is the show than can makes sports anime fans out of muggles, if they’ll only let it. I said back when this series was announced that Yowapeda was going to prove a good test case for whether a sports anime could make inroads with a demographically broad Western […] Read more
Yozakura Quartet is, as ever, a hard show for me to categorize. I’ve long suspected that this season was going to be a tougher one than usual to settle on a blogging schedule for, because there seemed likely to be an inordinate number of shows bunched very close together in […] Read more