Who would have thought we’d see a Hideauze cameo in Majestic Prince? After the ugliness of today’s other mecha show, the issues raised by GKMP seem positively quaint and reassuring – but they’re right in the mainstream for this kind of series. Majestic Prince as usual just goes along, doing […] Read more
I’ll say this much for Valvrave the Liberator – it gives you plenty of reasons to love it and plenty of reasons to hate it, but it sure makes it hard to be neutral. Valvrave is certainly the most kitchen-sink ready of all the series this season – maybe of […] Read more
From one extreme last week to the other this. I’ve said this before, but I think I like Hataraku Maou-sama better when the focus is on the comedy and not the larger plot. It’s a pretty good plot, actually – very good in fact – and these dramatic episodes certainly […] Read more
This show really is out there where the buses don’t run. It’s no exaggeration to say I love Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge. It’t not perfect, but it’s special in so many ways. This is one of the most fearless series I can remember in that it seems willing to […] Read more
It’s a tough time to be a big story in anime. We’ve just had the conclusion of one anime that really suffered from its one-cour length, Red Data Girl – though it managed to be one of the better shows of the season anyway – and we’re staring right down […] Read more
It’s nice to be right from time to time. Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – 09 Another fairly forgettable episode of Haiyore this week, though it was just about saved with some more fireworks between Kuuko and Mahiro there at the end. I think one issue with this series is that among […] Read more
One way or another, Urobuchi Gen’s genes are showing through. I think, fundamentally, Suisei no Gargantia is proving to be more like an Urobuchi Gen series than it might have looked a few weeks ago – but not because of the requisite butchery (though last week’s calimari-bake was pretty grisly). […] Read more
Crumbs – is this really the show I liked so much in the first season? No, I haven’t spoiled myself on the ending (apart from snarky hints from trolls who think they’re being clever with non-spoiler spoiler comments) – though it appears most of the anime audience has by now. […] Read more
For the first time this week, Hunter X Hunter put me in mind of The Princess Bride. I’m a big fan of anime characters who don’t speak all that much, but when they do you damn well better listen. Kaitou is rapidly stamping himself as one of those. He’s a […] Read more
It almost feels as if the series just got started, strange as that sounds. A 60-episode prologue, in an era when most anime are 1/5 that long in total? Yeah, an awful lot has happened (though no one will ever accuse Uchuu Kyoudai of being fast-paced) but I think a […] Read more