And so begins the second cour of Ao no Exorcist, with a new OP (straight-up J-rock by ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D, with a few spoilerific frames) and ED (fairly boring techno with a visual focus on Rin, Yukio and the students). It seems fitting that the second half of the series […] Read more
Now that represents a solid return to form for Ao no Exorcist. No other currently airing series does filler as well, but last week’s was pretty flimsy even by those standards, and it’s nice to get back to some plot-advancing development. Mind you, there was plenty of amusing stuff happening […] Read more
Even in a series with an established proclivity for filler episodes, this one was exceedingly lightweight. There were some odd things about this ep, starting with the fact that there was really no setup for it at all. It started, and Rin, Izumo and Shima (Kuro, too) were at the […] Read more
Seriously, now – if you can’t be moved by a cute little kitty-cat literally crying, what kind of heartless bastard are you? It’s a great credit to Ao no Exorcist that it manages to switch between it’s different modes without losing a step. After several school life eps followed by […] Read more
They talked!!! But WTF did they do to pass the exam? Ah, well – there’s some serious academic fixing going on at this school, and obviously Bunny and Hoodie are important enough to the plot that they had to be advanced with the others. But I can forgive it, because […] Read more
The big news in Ao no Exorcist this week was that Bunny Shota and Hooded-cloak Guy finally broke out in a big way, and boy was it worth the wait! They- wait… Oh yeah, that never happened – they’re still furniture. Never mind. I’m still enjoying this series, though I’ll […] Read more
OK, before we get to the actual review – what’s the deal with the Bunny Shota and Hooded-cloak Guy? They’re animated into virtually every school scene but they seem to have no impact on the story, and they haven’t even been introduced. WTF? Ah, Shiemi – you’re a slam-dunk for […] Read more
I’ll state right off the bat that, if you were to skip this episode of Blue Exorcist, your overall understanding of the series would in no way be compromised. It’s filler in the true sense of the word – anime-original, and seemingly quite irrelevant to the overall story. But for […] Read more
After a couple of false starts, we finally got the school life episode this week. Given that this is likely to be the setting for a bunch of the remaining episodes, there’s a lot of heavy lifting to be done in terms of introducing new characters and establishing the routine. […] Read more
I’m beginning to wonder if their isn’t some sort of contractual requirement for Kana Hanazawa to play a major role in at least half of all anime airing at any given moment. Seriously – I don’t keep statistics on such things, but she must surely be the hottest seiyuu in […] Read more