Well, that was a shame, really. It’s hard to find too much to say about Arata Kangatari, really, because the whole enterprise speaks more to the potential it left untapped than to anything that appeared on screen. The finale, like the rest of the series, was perfectly fine for what […] Read more
One to go? Hard to believe. I still can’t quite complete the mental connection confirming that Arata Kangatari is down to the final episode. It seems so utterly absurd on the face of it when watching the anime, and the most incredible thing is that I still don’t really have […] Read more
It’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye… The great Arata mash-up of 2013 is underway, and scheduled to run for the next two weeks. Something, as they say, had to give – there was no way the adaptation was simply going to present about 20% of the […] Read more
It’s a tough time to be a big story in anime. We’ve just had the conclusion of one anime that really suffered from its one-cour length, Red Data Girl – though it managed to be one of the better shows of the season anyway – and we’re staring right down […] Read more
What a fascinating riddle of a series Arata Kangatari is turning out to be. I’m probably biased, but I really think this series is continuing to get better as it progresses. That’s something of a small miracle considering the schedule, but that it’s not only coherent but manages to convey […] Read more
Things are definitely heating up, and on several fronts. After a one-week hiatus (table tennis taking over the timeslot) Arata Kangatari is back. And it’s still determinedly sticking to its roughly four chapter-per-episode adaptation pace, despite the fact that we only have five eps left in the series. The interesting […] Read more
Change is the air, finally. This was probably the most interesting episode of Arata Kangatari so far – both in its own terms, and because it’s where we’re finally seeing some deviation from the manga. The anime is half over – as for the manga who knows (it’s about to […] Read more
Things continue to move along at a brisk but manageable pace with Arata Kangatari, which as yet stubbornly refuses to offer up any clues suggesting radical changes to the storyline to compensate for its brevity. I’m finding – more so with the anime than with the manga, perhaps because the […] Read more
I see a lot of hopeful signs for Arata Kangatari, but the road ahead is still a puzzling one. The basic trend continues unabated – Arata Kangatari is being adapted at the rate of about 4 chapters per episode, and there are no signs that entire major plot elements will […] Read more
Arata Kangatari is certainly showing no signs of panic, considering the realities of the calendar. While things are zipping along nicely, I’m still quite unsure where Satelight is headed with this adaptation. They continue to adapt the manga at a pace of a little more than three chapters per episode […] Read more