I’ve never seen an anime romance quite like this one – and I mean that entirely in a good way. As much as any show this year, Tonari no Kabutsu-kun is the one I’m disappointed to see ending when it is. If ever a show had so much more story […] Read more
Another beautiful display of raw theatricality from Zetsuen no Tempest. Completing the transition from “Hamlet” to “The Tempest” Yoshino casts himself in the role of Ariel this week – the spirit who acted as the agent of the wizard Prospero and helped carry out his grand plans. There are others […] Read more
Enter Nishizono Mio (formally, anyway), and she’s quite different than the other cast members we’ve met so far. You’ll have to forgive the brevity of this post. In addition to this being finals week at my language school (Kanji alone would take more study time than I spend awake on […] Read more
This week’s Hunter X Hunter had me wrestling with a dilemma of sorts. It’s fair to say that I was looking forward to this ep as much as any anime episode all year, but fate intervened and left me a twisted, wraith-like creature with a bout of food poisoning. So […] Read more
The wait continues… To be honest, I was very tempted to watch the preview first this week, as it was the part of the episode I was most looking-forward to. I went in a little peeved at the way the Mutta storyline is being teased and delayed, which feels cheap […] Read more
Trying to encapsulate an episode like that was always going to be tough, even under ideal circumstances. Shin Sekai Yori is a show that begs serious analysis, but at the moment I just don’t think I’m capable of it. There’s something vaguely surreal about watching such a complex and unsettling […] Read more
Saddest looking snake ever. I suppose it says something for the place Kamisama Kiss holds in my regard that I decided to make this the episode I’d try and blog to get myself kick-started during my bout with constitutional misery. I went to my inbox and while shows the H […] Read more
That was a truly impressive display of film-making on all fronts. There’s no denying it – with Psycho-Pass, Urobuchi Gen is once again teasing us with the potential for true greatness. This show is just getting better and better as it segues from a “crime of the week” format into a truly […] Read more
Robotics;Notes offers up a fine example of the dramatic art of the anti-climax. Among the many things I appreciate about R;N is that is fully acknowledges that no matter what else is happening in the world, the small things in our lives still dominate our thoughts and feelings. There’s certainly […] Read more
I’ll say this much for Chuunibyou – when it decided to make a transition to serious mode, it didn’t pull any punches. I personally would have preferred a more balanced recipe from the beginning, with the obvious implications of chuunibyou – which were always the elephant in the room – […] Read more