Gifuu Dodou should be manly enough to satisfy even the most manly of tastes. Pretty much everything you need to know about this series you can guess from the writer/director and the time slot. It’s based on a manga by Hara Tetsuo, famous for Fist of the North Star, who’s […] Read more
Summer season, start. LiA kicks off the season with another “earlycast” from Niconico, with the usual craptacular quality. If I decide to stick with Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi it’s going to be a similar decision to RDG: watch the netcast and blog, or wait for the HD releases? That decision […] Read more
Mushibugyou snuck a recap episode in under the guise of a fanservice episode, so not much to say here. If you want to look for the 3 minutes of sento fanservice, it is in there scattered among the recycled material. The most interesting takeaway is that Kuroageha looks a lot […] Read more
Well, that was a shame, really. It’s hard to find too much to say about Arata Kangatari, really, because the whole enterprise speaks more to the potential it left untapped than to anything that appeared on screen. The finale, like the rest of the series, was perfectly fine for what […] Read more
There was one major character element missing from Kingdom, and it looks as if it’s arrived. The scope of Kingdom continues to widen, and with it the already bewilderingly large cast (which is like two casts, given that everyone has two different readings of their name). Zheng’s challenge seems to […] Read more
Chalk this one up as another ending that wasn’t. I’ll always have a real affection for Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, because it was the first series that really went at Ishihara Shintaro head on, and the only one that’s savaged him the way he deserves to be savaged. That episode in the […] Read more
For me, among the myriad questions facing this finale one stood out – would Gen finally answer one of his own questions? Short answer: Yes (pretty much). Long answer: Well… Still mostly yes, I think. Gen Urobuchi promised this would be a different sort of series than we’re used to […] Read more
Well, if nothing else I can say that Oreimo at least managed to surprise me with this episode. I’m not even going to bother referring to this as the “TV End” or some other such euphemism, because it really wasn’t an ending of any kind and frankly, made no attempt […] Read more
Nothing changes the mood faster than the welcome return of an old friend. If anyone ever needed a mom, Gon and (especially) Killua did, right about now. And with the return of Biscuit Krueger, we have – I would argue for the very first time – a change of tone […] Read more
At long last, he picked up the damn boulder. If I were a more cynical person, I might ask questions like the following about Armin and Pixis’ master plan: If Eren, as a titan, can pick up a rock heavy enough to block the entrance, why can’t another titan push […] Read more