Let the raging begin. There are obviously reasons to be interested in Kimi no iru Machi above and beyond the series itself. It’s hard to think of another manga that inspires the level of sheer venom from the readers – yet something keeps them coming back for more. Above and […] Read more
No letdown here – Blood Lad follows up a very good premiere with an equally good second episode. I’m quite pleased with this series, which is shaping up as the most interesting work from Brains Base since Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. It’s not lavish, ultra-fluid or spectacularly detailed but it does […] Read more
In a season where second episodes haven’t always lived up to the promise of premieres – so far – it’s nice to see the opposite effect with Uchouten Kazoku. Of my top tier of shows going into the season, Uchouten Kazoku and Gatchaman Crowds were the ones whose premieres were […] Read more
Now that’s more damn like it. While enduring the seemingly endless Groundhog Day that was “Defense of Trost”, I couldn’t help but think of the succession of chapter titles Togashi-sensei used during the “Greed Island” arc of Hunter X Hunter: “To Masadora! Part 1” “To Masadora! Part 2” “To Masadora! […] Read more
Madhouse continues to illustrate what happens when brilliantly written shounen is elevated to high art. Of late, Hunter X Hunter has taken on that peculiar quality that great anime sometimes does, where a 22-minute episode seems to last about five minutes. It’s a product of not-wasted time, I suspect – […] Read more
A new season begins with the return of an old (very old) face. OP6: “Crater” by Merengue It’s a new cour, and that means a new OP and EDs for Uchuu Kyoudai (I especially like the ED “animation” this time, even if it’s basically still frames). As I speculated, the […] Read more
That was every bit as random as I expected. OP: “Crowds” by WHITE ASH I’ve long held the suspicion that Nakamura Kenji has experimented with augmented reality in his own way. At the very least, as a director he seems incapable of producing anything with a conventional look – from the […] Read more
It’s fair to say the second episode was much closer to what I was expecting from Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen than the first. In hindsight, the direction this series was going should have been fairly obvious, though I confess I didn’t see it coming. It certainly reveals the double-meaning of the […] Read more
GKMP continues to be full of surprises. This is a series that’s pretty much managed to surprise me at every turn so far, despite the fact that it’s easily the most conventional of the three mecha series that premiered in the Spring. Every time I’m pretty sure I’ve got a […] Read more
I’m guessing that’s the first time in anime we’ve heard the line, “Dammit – how can something so tasty come out of an anus?!” OP: “Kiss you” by miwa Just to review, here are a few of the superlatives with Gin no Saji: Winner of the Manga Taishou Grand Prize […] Read more