About to be put to the test: can one character ruin an otherwise extremely promising show? There’s so much I like about Servant X Service – the premise, the accuracy with which is portrays the life of an office worker, almost all the characters. Heck, even Kayano Ai saying “Chihaya-san” […] Read more
Like its main character, Free! is only really exceptional when it’s in the water. I can’t really say I saw anything here that changed my opinion about Free! one way or the other. There were no surprises for me in this episode, which isn’t in itself a bad thing. But given that […] Read more
That definitely goes down as an experience… OP:「私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い!」 (No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!) by (Konomi Suzuki and Kiba of Akiba) I had some idea of what to expect from Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!, both […] Read more
Appropriate that flies were the bug of the week, because it’s really hitting the fan now. OP2: “Tenshin∞Unchained” by FREE Hebi’M After a recap episode Mushibugyou is back, with a new OP (surprisingly lacking in Mugai, I can’t help but notice) and ED. And the series continues on the same […] Read more
Uchouten Kazoku is a series which holds tremendous promise, but it’s too early to see how the pieces are going to fit. OP: “Uchouten Jinsei (有頂天人生)” by milktub Going in, it seemed as if Uchouten Kazuku might be one of the tougher Summer series to nail down, and the premiere lives […] Read more
To some extent, Makai Ouji is truth in advertising. Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist is published in Weekly Zero Sum, the same magazine that features the likes of 07 Ghost and Karenval. As such you have a pretty clear idea of what to expect here, and in some ways we […] Read more
Let the comparisons begin… OP: “ViViD” by May’n At first – and even second and third – glance, there are a striking number of parallels between Blood Lad and Hataraku Maou-sama. In addition to a regular guy demon lord as the main character, there’s a machine-gun humor derived from a […] Read more
A new episode of Kingdom? That must mean new cast members, then. Once again Kingdom delivers up a big, sprawling episode that serves notice that this series is telling the story with the widest scope of any anime on the air. There are times when I’m concerned it might be […] Read more
If you were expecting Togashi to keep the morality of this arc simple, you were definitely barking up the wrong tree. The guy doesn’t do simple. There was really no way the “Chimera Ant” arc could remain as relentlessly dark and morose as it was for it’s first ten episodes […] Read more
Genshiken is back, though seemingly largely unnoticed. I remember this series being fairly popular back in the day (it even spun off its own fictional anime, Kujibiki Unbalance), but it placed similarly low in both the LiA and RC preview polls and no one seems to be talking about it […] Read more