Alas, sunk by my own words… The waters the series is sailing into with that character are riddled with some very obvious mines, but I’m not going to assume the worst – Sakurasou is certainly well-written enough at its best to avoid most of them. Well, it was a nice […] Read more
We have a situation in the two shoujo romances this season where the lead couple probably shouldn’t be together, but for entirely different reasons. This is a series that really cries out for a longer adaptation, because it’s hard to see any way that four more episodes are going to do it […] Read more
I really only had one problem with this excellent episode, but it’s a fairly big one. Overall, I continue to be impressed with Sukitte Ii na yo as a pretty realistic, unsentimental and sometimes brutal look at teen romance. It does something few such shows – either shoujo or harem […] Read more
I’m beginning to see a kind of sick wish-fulfillment at the center of Btooom!. Btooom! – 07 I really wish I had time to keep up with JoJo, because in a way it would be a natural show to blog alongside this one. Both are marvels of excess and bombast, […] Read more
Of all the series I’ve liked over the last couple of seasons, Little Busters! may be the hardest affection to justify. In a court of law, a stipulation is when both sides agree to a certain set of facts, and that they won’t be argued for the duration of the […] Read more
“I feel so light. No weight on my legs… No weight on my chest.” I’d like to say I wondered if this episode would break me down, but I pretty much knew that it would – it was really more a question of what would be the trigger. And interestingly, […] Read more
If you’ve been impatient for me to criticize the Madhouse Hunter X Hunter, your long wait is finally over. There’s no new episode next week. How could you do that to me after such a great episode, and that cliffhanger? There – never let it be said that I’m not hard on […] Read more
In all honestly I’m having a hard time sorting out Zetsuen no Tempest, but the fact that it’s something special shines through that uncertainty. I don’t know why BONES didn’t decide to take on Shakespeare years ago, because they pair together like wine and cheese. Rarely in anime have I […] Read more
Well then – let the apoplexy begin. If you’re going to do a timeskip, I guess you may as well go all-out and completely blow preconceptions out of the water as Shin Sekai Yori did. Novel readers obviously had an idea of what was coming, and some of us who […] Read more
So this was the week Chuunibyou finally crossed the unseen horizon and went serious. And all in all, it did a pretty darn good job of it. When a comedy goes serious, you can look at it two ways. You can judge it by the vehicle it chooses for the […] Read more