Thanks to your kind support, LiA won our group. To be honest I’m pleasantly surprised, because this was a very strong pool – The Cart Driver and LMT especially are sites I know well. The wait for Round 4 is happily much shorter – the matchup is Conspicuous klux, and […] Read more
Wow – that’s a three-part story? I’m definitely OK with the relaxed, time-wasting appeal of Hyouka – generally speaking. But stretching this movie script mystery over three parts makes for some pretty watery gruel, even by this show’s standards. I guess KyoAni deserve credit for going all-in with this approach, […] Read more
After the fold. UPDATE: Studio Feel will be animating. Ugh. As you may know, Minami-ke was confirmed for a fourth season a couple of months ago. At last, the details are in – Winter 2013 is the air date. Director will be Kawaguchi Keiichiro (Hayate, Mayo Chiki, Sket Dance) and […] Read more
If “less is more” is your mantra, I imagine this episode of Space Brothers was right up your alley. I’m very pleased that Uchuu Kyoudai seems to be drawing a very good audience in it’s Sunday morning timeslot (the manga is also selling phenomenally well) but I’m quite sure it’s […] Read more
MGX manages to surprise me yet again. I’m pretty sure there’s never been a relationship anime quite like this one. I confess that while I was totally wrapped up in the this arc’s story after last week, I was looking forward to this ep with a hint of trepidation. After […] Read more
I don’t have to search too hard for a one-word review of that episode – “Wow” covers it pretty well. Not only was the match between Hisoka and Gon the subject of perhaps the most intense build-up of any event in this series so far, but there was the added […] Read more
Damn, it really sucks to be Irisviel’s neck lately. In a sense, the pressure is really off for me when it comes to blogging Fate/Zero. I have no emotional attachment to any of the surviving characters, so I’m free to enjoy the last two episodes on a purely intellectual level […] Read more
These two shows appear to be headed in opposite directions… Lupin III: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna – 11 Regrettably, Lupin III wasn’t at its best this week, which leads me to wonder if we’re going to be finishing on a disappointing note. It’s not really a surprise that the […] Read more
As many different styles, shapes and sizes as great anime come in, how alike they are is more striking than how different they are. Fundamentally, if a series is going to meet the threshold of greatness, it has to be rooted in characters we can relate to and emotions that […] Read more
“Defensive Universal Confrontation Keeprs”. The more you know. Every season (if I’m lucky) there’s one show that I totally and unreservedly love, and no matter how much I admire and enjoy the other top series, that feeling is always unique to that one show. Chihayafuru, Cross Game, Ikoku Meiro… For […] Read more