Things appear to have gotten a lot more complicated here. It’s interesting that I’ve come to like the male lead here better than the one in Sukitte, because that’s certainly not what one might have expected after the first episode. But my initial take on Haru seems to have been […] Read more
No question about it – there are a lot of series this season that aren’t separated by whole lot in terms of quality. Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – 02 One of the reasons it’s so hard to settle on a blogging schedule this season is my current living situation, […] Read more
Any way you look at it the lead story in the Astral Ocean OVA is Ao in a dress, but there are actually a couple of semi-serious moments along the way. Safe to say that Jungfrau no Hanabana-tachi falls squarely in the class of OVAs that place humor as the […] Read more
These are going to be short and sweet I’m afraid, as I try to sort through this huge season and see if any of these shows are going to make it into the rotation. K – 02 I still sort of like K, though it remains a case of style […] Read more
Shaka, when the walls fell. As a template for series about sports and series about kids, it would be hard to top Ginga e Kickoff. There was advancement for just about every character in the series over these two eps, the first of which covered the second half of the […] Read more
About the best compliment I can pay to the second episode of Little Busters is this: I’m not quite sure why I enjoyed it as much as I did. I’ll be honest – there was quite a bit in this episode that under normal circumstances would make me cringe (a […] Read more
I used to have a sign above my desk that said, “It is what it is” and the people who worked for me were more than a little sick of hearing that phrase, I’m sure. I still trot it out when the moment fits, and watching SAO seems to be […] Read more
OK, that was officially my favorite H x H episode that didn’t feature my two favorite characters… You know the drill – episode was awesome, blah blah blah. Well, sorry, but it was – with a beautifully creepy and almost sentimental buildup that led to one of the all time-sucker […] Read more
Three episodes in and I’ve seen absolutely nothing to make me rethink my opinion that Shin Sekai Yori is the best new series of the Fall. So far, it’s one of the best series of the year. On balance, it would be pretty hard to find much to criticize in […] Read more
Or, “Giant Robots and the Children Who Love Them” OP: “Junjō Spectra” by Zwei For me it would be hard to top the anticipation I felt going into the Spring season for NoitaminA. You had two series from auteur directors, one of whom had been absent from TV for many […] Read more