“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
Hey, who got heartwarming in my irreverence? Two chapters today, as different as day and night (or the white and black in a panda’s fur). I enjoyed the first, chronicling Penguin-san’s broken heart at the hands of Penko-san, though it doesn’t rank among the best Shirokuma has had on offer. Basically, the […] Read more
“A Tiny Wind” There’s no Sankarea on TV this week, courtesy of the UEFA Tournament going on in Poland and Ukraine. But we do have this OAD, which acts as a sort of prequel to the series. And given the sizable detours the show has taken over the last month, […] Read more
Or is it 03? I’m not really sure… First things first – the animation was definitely better this time. It’s still not going to win any awards and there’s still too much CGI where CGI shouldn’t go – but better. Perhaps the crush of CGI in the premiere was a […] Read more
“The lady doth protest too much, Methinks.” – Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act III It took a little while for this adaptation of Jormungand to hit its stride, but it’s now right there with the best series of the season. It’s hard to say just why that is, given just how note-faithful […] Read more
“Amagi Kouga’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” Yes, that stuff hitting the fan is exactly what it looks like, and there’s lots of it – take cover. Most of it blew directly into Kouga’s face sadly for him, and that crack you heard may just have been the […] Read more
I can only paraphrase the words I used for Watanabe Shinichiro and Sakamichi – why does everyone else make this seem so hard? There’s a reason why all of the sports shounen I’ve blogged the last couple of seasons have fired and fallen back, and it’s not because I don’t love the […] Read more
The idea that Ishihara might not be human actually explains a lot. Mobile Suit Gundam AGE – 35 Things are definitely getting interesting on AGE, as the pieces for what look like the last extended arc are falling into place. I’m once again struck by how emotionally tone-deaf Flit is. […] Read more
There must have been a seiyuu convention in Kyoto the week this episode was filmed. Leave it to Hyouka to have a change of pace episode and still have nothing really happen. This series certainly isn’t getting any easier to write about, but my enjoyment level is pretty consistent – I suppose […] Read more
Fun and games are certainly not the theme of episode 11 of Space Brothers. We started to see a real exploration of the theme of space and mortality a few episodes back, when Mutta discovered Hibito’s will and final papers hidden in the guest room of his rented house in […] Read more