To say that Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince has turned out to be a different show than the one I expected after the premiere is a healthy understatement. My take on GKMP has been forming over the last few weeks, and this episode did nothing to change it – but it […] Read more
Its defenders and detractors would agree about very little when it comes to Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, but one thing they’d both probably stipulate to is that it’s one weird show. But in some ways it may in fact be the most unusual I’ve ever covered. Little did I […] Read more
Cute girls baking cookies. Not much to say about the KoiChoco OVA, really. It basically chronicles an afternoon in the life of Yuuki as the overworked Student Council President, or more specifically Chisato and Satsuki fighting over his time. Chisato wants him to teach her to bake, and Satsuki wants […] Read more
Things continue to move along at a brisk but manageable pace with Arata Kangatari, which as yet stubbornly refuses to offer up any clues suggesting radical changes to the storyline to compensate for its brevity. I’m finding – more so with the anime than with the manga, perhaps because the […] Read more
This series just has a way of focusing on the right animal at the right moment. Metaphors can be taken too far, I know, but they are useful in trying to illustrate a point, and so I’ve found it with RDG. A couple of weeks ago I noted that this […] Read more
Cyclone! Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W – 05 I haven’t generally been all that crazy about the character-driven episodes of Haiyore! – or is the plot-driven ones? In any event, less drive and more comedy is usually the forumla for success here, but for an ep that was plot and character heavy […] Read more
Well, that was a bit of a shame. I haven’t checked the credits, but I’m going to hazard a guess that Urobuchi Gen didn’t write this episode. To be fair, Gen hasn’t been credited with writing an episode since the first one, but if there were any doubt that he’s […] Read more
A funny thing happened in the middle of this episode: Kuroneko actually showed up. Hard to know just what to make of this episode of Oreimo, really. On the one hand, we’re at least back on-point as far as the story is concerned, and the more likeable members of the […] Read more
Even for a Togashi series, it’s incredible just how much the tone of Hunter X Hunter has shifted seemingly in the blink of an eye. I hate to keep using the word “somber” but it just keeps leaping into my mind unbidden as I watch the “Chimera Ant” arc unfold. […] Read more
Clearly, being alive is not a prerequisite for being a main character in this series. It’s hard to believe that – not counting the flashbacks to boyhood days – Brain Jay has been dead for the entire timeframe of Space Brothers. The man – and especially the events surrounding his […] Read more