So – anything much happen on Space Brothers this week? I can’t help but feel something like the Grinch on a bad day for what I’m about to do, but if I’m going to be honest I wasn’t completely thrilled with this episode as a wrap to the current arc. […] Read more
Bless you, BONES, for continuing to not give a damn about the flavor of the week. Zetsuen no Tempest is yet another Fall series of sterling quality that’s a complete commercial flop, which is something of a recurring (and depressing) theme. I can understand it to some extent, because Zetsuen […] Read more
There’s no more running from the future, it seems. I must confess there were times in this episode when I had absolutely no idea what was happening. Given the fact that I probably wasn’t supposed to, that may not be such a bad thing – but for the first time […] Read more
There’s no need to mince words – that was utterly fantastic. Chihayafuru firing on all cylinders. I swear, when I wrote last week’s post I had no idea that Tsuboguchi Hiroshi was going to have by far his most screen time in this episode. Hell, Madhouse even used the same […] Read more
I wonder if Urobuchi Gen has heard the criticism that Psycho-Pass isn’t exactly an original idea. There’s no doubt that having Makishima compare the Tokyo of the series’ creation to Gibson, Orwell and Philip K. Dick had the feeling of a wink at the audience – and I’ll give him […] Read more
There’s an effortless quality to Robotics;Notes that belies just how many good things it accomplishes every week. I’m not going to bemoan the commercial failure of Robotics;Notes anymore, I promise (the first volume did about as poorly as expected) but I am going to keep singing the praises of the […] Read more
Kotoura-san is still the best non-sequel of the season, but it’s pretty clear that the issues that keep it from reaching greatness aren’t going away anytime soon. It’s a shame the folks at AIC don’t have some paranormal abilities themselves, because if they’d known how well this series would be […] Read more
For a minute there I thought I was watching “Bears on the Slope”. There are many relationships in Shirokuma Café that pack plenty of charm, but the one between Shirokuma-san and Grizzly-san may just be my favorite of the lot. It sounds funny to say considering the premise of this […] Read more
I can’t say this news surprises me all that much, but it’s still absolutely wonderful to hear that Space Brothers has been renewed, and not only that, will move to a coveted Saturday evening timeslot to share a block with Detective Conan. This is further proof that there’s more to […] Read more
Yep, still damn good. I pretty much said what I wanted to see about Sankarea and how sadly underappreciated it is in the Episode 14 post, but this was certainly a fine episode in its own right. It’s become something of a tradition for series to do OVA episodes about […] Read more