I hadn’t really noticed much, as this show does such a great job of integrating all its characters into every episode, but Jintan has been kind of secondary in the last few. This was definitely a return to the themes of the first two eps – the main focus on […] Read more
AnoHana continues it’s so-far almost perfect run with a near-flawless fifth episode. It might not have packed as many theatrical moments into it as episode four, but made up for it with some serious emotional drama. In small doses, more is revealed about the day of Menma’s death and the […] Read more
I really don’t want this to degenerate into fanboy, slavish praising – but that’s a real danger after tonight’s AnoHana. I think this series has been amazingly close to perfect after four episodes and it’s not going to be easy for me to sound like anything except a starry-eyed fan. […] Read more
Let’s review: A day in the life of a very strange ghost: – Make very material muffins with very material ingredients – Pray at the altar of another dead person – Go screaming through the woods because someone says they saw your ghost. Oh, yeah – that’s you! Without question, […] Read more
It’s neither here nor there as far as AnoHana is concerned, I suppose, but I confess it was a bit emotional for me to hear Irinu Miyu and Haruka Tomatsu having a conversation on screen again. The chemistry is certainly still there – the force is strong with those two. […] Read more
I have a lot to talk about with this one, starting with the fact that it faced by far the highest expectations for any Spring series in my eyes. And, in the event, it managed to live up to them almost completely. That’s really something to celebrate. There are so […] Read more