I guess it can’t be a shoujo romance without a serious love rival to deal with. Enter Megu, Kitagawa Megumi (Kotobuki Minako) who may be the designated villain of the piece or a well-meaning distraction on the romantic journey of out two leads. Megu is a model, quite popular and […] Read more
Any week that marks the return of Evangeline Yammamoto is off to a good start. Btooom! – 06 Btooom is a classic dilemma – I really want to dislike it, but I’m fairly engrossed every time I watch it (when I’m not just grossed, anyway). It’s a well-made action thriller, […] Read more
Wow – that conclusion sure arrived a lot faster than I expected. As with just about everything else with Little Busters!, I’m very much of two minds about this episode, and the entire Komari arc (both episodes of it). On the one hand I can very much feel myself being […] Read more
With this many iconic characters running around, the hard part with H x H sometimes is figuring out who the star of the episode was. As always with this series, it’s a mark of its greatness that it can offer an episode with no action in the middle of an […] Read more
Another week, another gem. Ho, hum. One of the things that stands out about Space Brothers is the attention to detail – not in the animation (I love the space shots but the backgrounds do get a little fuzzy in four-cour anime with limited Blu-ray sales) but in the writing. […] Read more
There are few shows doing idiocy as well as Chuunibyou, and there’s definitely something to be said for that. It occurs to me that this show would get a lot more interesting if it were revealed that Rikka (or even Yuuta or, God forbid, Dekomori) actually had magical powers. I […] Read more
I’m not sure if Shin Sekai Yori was in what I would call a slump – more like “slightly less great” for a couple of episodes – but it was fully back on-track for this one. Damn it, how does SSY keep making me think the episodes are 5 minutes […] Read more
I know a government conspiracy couldn’t be too far off… It’s looking like a pretty darn good season on NoitaminA after all. Psycho-Pass is rounding into form nicely, and I’ve loved Robotics;Notes right from the beginning. The thing about this show is that even when things get heavy (and the destruction of the solar […] Read more
If Minority Report Mated with UN-GO and gave birth to Urobuchi Gen, Psycho-Pass would be pretty close to the result. Fundamentally, I think Psycho-Pass comes down to this: if you think a sci-fi film noir written by Gen and animated by Production I.G. is likely to be interesting, you’re going […] Read more
There’s just nothing like real artisan lemur cheese. This was a pretty lighthearted and simple edition of Shirokuma this week, with two stories that definitely placed the comedy first. We had a sort of slightly off-kilter take on “The Secret Garden”, except that everything in this secret garden is edible […] Read more