It’s not too fruitful trying to find things to say about a recap episode. OP5: “Kienai E (消えない絵)” by Magokoro Brothers The best thing about this episode of Space Brothers is that there are a few minutes of new footage at the beginning. The worst is that it looks as […] Read more
Series like Ginga e Kickoff are a reminder of just how much an anime can come to mean to you after a while. I was looking forward very much to this finale, long-delayed from the original airing as it is – and yet, dreading it too. To be honest I […] Read more
It’s hard to do a sports episode any better than that one. Whatever your feelings about the direction Chihayafuru has gone this season, in the last two weeks I’ve think we’ve seen the worst and best sides of that change in focus. Coming off that rare stumble that made me […] Read more
Wow – where in the world to begin… In a way, it seems only fitting that Zexcs chose to bring a manga that revels in the ugliness of human nature with an incredibly ugly visual style. On the other, there’s no denying that Aku no Hana is a really, really […] Read more
My hope was that Yahari couldn’t possibly be as bad as it looked on paper, or else Brains Base would never have touched it. Thankfully, that turns out to be the case. Amnesia may have snapped their creative winning streak, but Brains Base is still one of very few studios […] Read more
Photo Kano is pretty much pure formula so far. The inbox is packed with premieres today, so this one is going to be pretty short because there really isn’t a whole lot to say. Photo Kano comes off as more generic than anything else in the first episode. There are […] Read more
Every season, like clockwork, there’s a show that’s not on my radar screen that crashes the party in a big way. Well… Simply put, the first episode of Hataraku Maou-sama was excellent in every way. I hadn’t initially paid much attention to this series, thinking it looked like a rather […] Read more
For a series that packed as much into a first episode as Karneval did, it’s surprising how little of an impression it left on me. I really want to like Manglobe series. They tend to take on idiosyncratic projects that don’t appear to have obvious commercial appeal, and they can […] Read more
My initial reaction when I saw the synposes and trailer for this series was that it might be a spoof. After seeing the premiere, my reaction is “it better be”. It doesn’t get any more old-school than the premise behind Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince: a bunch of teens at a […] Read more
And so it begins in earnest. A trickle today becomes a flood as the premieres come fast and furious, and this is the first of a veritable busload of sci-fi and mecha debuts (not including the pustulent Date A Live). My First Impressions posts are likewise going to be fast […] Read more