“Sasako-san – doko no aru daro?” Look out Handa-san – looks like you have some competition. Shirokuma is another one of those shows that’s so easy to watch and enjoy that you don’t have to think too hard – it’s great at providing the simple pleasures. But this one does […] Read more
If there were any doubt that Chuunibyou would be pursuing the romance angle in its final arc, I think it’s safely dispelled now. Chuunibyou has been a study in extremes for the most part. In the first six episodes it was very silly and pretty funny a good percentage of […] Read more
If it seems as if there’s one character in Jormungand that’s always a step ahead of everyone else, that’s because there is. Her name is Koko, but I don’t think she’s loco at all. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, pronounced [ˈjɔrmuŋɡandr]), often written Jormungand, or Jörmungand and also […] Read more
Whatever else you may think about it, watching Sakurasou is certainly never a boring experience. As this episode played out, I was reminded of the start of the old nursery rhyme “There Was a Little Girl” (actually a poem by Longfellow): There was a little girl, who had a little […] Read more
This ep was definitely a gift for the soccer geeks in the audience. I’m going to risk repeating myself now that we’re 28 episodes into Ginga e Kickoff, but for a serious fan of sports anime, what it offers is so rare that it’s hard not to keep talking about […] Read more
There’s no need to mince words – every week I grow more impressed by just how excellent Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is. There are a couple of ways one could go about trying to explain the appeal of this series, starting with the most obvious: list all the things it does […] Read more
That was a difficult episode to watch – mostly (but not entirely) for the right reasons. The contrast between the way the two shoujo romances this season approach their material could hardly be more stark, and while it’s not fair to either series to judge them based on the other, […] Read more
Probably the best episode of Little Busters! so far, though that should hardly come as a surprise. It would be easy to sum up the strength of this episode with “Duh – it’s Kud!” And while our little Euro-Asian hybrid is without question the most entertaining of all the girls […] Read more
I finally found a more mismatched show to pair with Btooom! Kamisama Hajimemashita – 08 Even when Kamisama Hajimemashita is being serious, it can’t help being funny. This week every scene involving Mikage and his sidekick Otohiko (Takahashi Hiroki) was a riot. Otohiko is yet another in a line of […] Read more
BONES really has the time travel bug lately… This was another magnificently over-the-top episode for Zetsuen no Tempest, which isn’t satisfied with its own florid dialogue – it’s actually quoting soliloquies from The Bard directly of late. Interestingly, while the superficial template was obviously “The Tempest”, most of the lifted […] Read more