In every episode since this arc started I’ve been thinking a lot about a character who wasn’t on-screen – but it was a different one this time. For all the high drama surrounding Hibito’s compelling but ultimately predictable peril on the moon, Space Brothers has really missed Mutta’s presence. The […] Read more
I’m trying to sort out my feelings for Zetsuen no Tempest but believe me, it isn’t so easy. There’s no show quite like it. Without wishing to complicate things further, let me introduce a quote from yet another of Shakespeare’s plays (A Midsummer Nights Dream) which seems appropriate here: Captain […] Read more
The gloves are pretty much off now. This is going to be a dark ride of epic proportions from here to the end, I suspect. This has been a pretty dark couple of days in anime, what with the most recent episodes of Psycho-Pass and Robotics;Notes. But for my money […] Read more
“Every poem read sends you back a thousand years. How many sports are capable of such a feat?” There have been 30 episodes of Chihayafuru in total now, and since the vast majority of them have been excellent (or better) the series has obviously done a lot of fantastic things. […] Read more
There aren’t many anime episodes about which I’d use the term “brutal” in a good way, but this was definitely one of them. When you consider how many times Robotics;Notes has actually raised the ante already, it’s clear this is a series that has the potential to go extremely dark […] Read more
Is this a new beginning for Kotoura-san, or just a change-of-pace? It’s fitting that this episode started with Kotoura settling into her new apartment, reflecting on the events that led up to that moment, before flashing “The End” as the boxes fell on top of her. That’s because for me […] Read more
Surely, there’s no art form more (ig)noble than than manly art of the pun. That a series can devote an entire half-episode to puns in a language I barely speak and still make me laugh is testament to just how well-executed the first half of this week’s Shirokuma Café was. […] Read more
Thank goodness for sequels and carry-overs. I can’t ever remember a season where I only ended up blogging one new series (excluding sequels). I’m still watching a few others, but Kotoura-san is the only one that made the cut, and the only one that looks as if it has a […] Read more
The only thing that tempers the sheer joy of watching a new Ginga e Kickoff episode is the knowledge that each one brings us closer to the end of the series. It would be silly to question the judgment of TYO and the creative team behind GeK now, because they […] Read more
Look out, Hosoka – there’s a new superfreak in town. We’re five eps in, we’ve had only one appearance each by Makoto/-chan and Hosaka (and no sign of either in the preview), and yet things are still humming along at a fine pace. It’s a testament to how deep the […] Read more