It’s getting close to decision-time with Magi. I don’t know if Magi is taking an inter-seasonal break like most series, but it certainly didn’t go out of it’s way to generate a logical stopping point for the close of its first cour. We’re very much right in the middle of […] Read more
Of all people, it was Furuya-kun who best summed up this episode of Space Brothers. I was wondering how Uchuu Kyoudai could possibly follow up the emotional crescendo of last week’s episode, which hit me like a freight train. I should know by now not to doubt, because between the […] Read more
Seriously – did anyone doubt for a second that Gon would put out “Rock”? 60 episodes is something of a milestone for any anime, and as I marvel at yet another stellar episode it makes me inclined to reflect back over the last five cours. It’s frankly pretty amazing how […] Read more
All in all Madhouse does a pretty good job here, delivering a non-ending that serves the purpose with few surprises. Certainly, there were multiple challenges facing the anime staff in crafting this episode. Not only is this a one-cour anime adapting a manga that covers nine volumes, but it’s an […] Read more
Give Sukitte some credit for this: it never misses its cues. My feelings about Megu-tan as summarized in last week’s post: I don’t wish her any ill, but I just don’t care about her very much and and her likely tearful redemption next week seems like an anti-climactic way to […] Read more
In some ways, this may just be the hardest blog post I’ve ever had to write. I’m really walking on eggshells with this one. It’s a bit of a quandary trying to figure out what I can and can’t say, because it’s hard to separate what I know because I […] Read more
Sometimes even in the darkest stories, you can find a glimmer of hope somewhere. So far that isn’t the case with Shin Sekai Yori. This series continues to be both the most disturbing and most heartbreaking of the season for me. The premise in fantastical, no doubt, but it’s been […] Read more
If you’re a fan of NoitaminA – and I’m one of the biggest – this goes down as one of the best and worst days of the year. It seems odd to be depressed about the NoitaminA block on a day when both halves of Production I.G.’s entry delivered standout, […] Read more
Now that’s how you kick things up a notch. It seems quite fitting that Production I.G. should have cranked out this episode on a day when so many nut-jobs and gullible lost souls are praying for an ancient prediction that doesn’t even predict the end of the world to end […] Read more
If I know anything, it’s that when two trees throw down, you do not want to get in the way. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the […] Read more