I’ve liked Robotics;Notes since the premiere, but I suspect this episode is going to win over a lot of viewers that might have been on the fence. I have no doubt R;N is going to get a lot more serious and dark given who created it – the hints are […] Read more
When you can say a show as good as Jormungand already was is hitting its stride and still be guilty of massive understatement, you know just how incredible “Perfect Order” has been so far. In a way, I look at Jormungand as a kind of jigsaw puzzle. The first season […] Read more
Myself and the other 11 people in the English-speaking world actually watching Ginga e Kickoff were treated to another stellar episode. It’s a measure of how invested I’ve become in the characters here that when they show signs of real growth, I sometimes feel as proud of them as if […] Read more
Sometimes there’s just no substitute for experience. Kamisama Hajimemashita certainly isn’t doing anything radical, or truth be told even anything different. This is a very tried and true formula, but it all comes down to execution. I’m sure the manga is charming, but I think the reason this is succeeding […] Read more
It’s always nice to welcome an old friend back into the fold. I’ve been a big fan of Minami-ke since long before I was blogging. It’s hard to believe it’s been five years (the incredible anime year of 2007) since the first and best season aired. I wasn’t as down […] Read more
Sakurasou sits squarely at the intersection of several genres, and stubbornly refuses to fit in any of them. Make no mistake about it, Sakurasou is a pretty interesting series. As far as I know the novelist Kamoshida Hajime has never written anything else, and you have a first-time director working […] Read more
The best thing about the shoujo offerings as a group this season is that each of them is quite distinct from the others. I don’t really have much to say about this week’s episode of Tonari, even though I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was pretty much a build-up […] Read more
Girls are scary. There’s a funny sort of reversal happening with Sukkite Iinayo. Usually you have fans of the source material decrying the shortcomings of the adaptation, and how it never manages to capture the magic of the original. Here, there are seemingly endless “Yeah, the anime seems really good […] Read more
A quick update: I’ve decided to put SAO on hiatus for the time being. If I were back in the US or if the Fall schedule was a little lighter – or even if it aired during a different time of the week – I’d probably keep covering it, because […] Read more
I’m not sure if this constitutes an attempt to make Iwase likeable, but if so, it didn’t work for me. The struggle for success in the world of manga is so constant that sometimes I get tired just from watching Bakuman. I know that’s a realistic picture and that only […] Read more