It’s somehow fitting that Bingougami Ga! ended on the very same day that a second season of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san was announced. I can’t say that anything surprising happened in the finale of Binbougami. In fact, my notepad sits pristine and unsullied by writing of any kind – I guess everything […] Read more
The mix of comedy and drama in Binbougami has been just right lately. That is to say, mostly comedy – but comedy where the characters actually matter and behave in a way that makes sense. Here’s a little snippet of my “First Impressions” post: But the breakout performance is by […] Read more
Hard to pull off a straight-up comedy episode much better than that one. The weightier stuff can be a little up and down, but there’s no doubt in my mind that when Bingoumai Ga goes all-out for humor, it stacks up with any show this season. Bobby and Moumou singing […] Read more
Fearless is a pretty good quality for a comedy to have, generally speaking. Not enough on its own to guarantee success, but a good start – and Binbougami Ga! is pretty fearless. With one exception, this series has proved itself quite adept at striking the balance between nasty and sincere […] Read more
I’d like to pretend last week’s episode of Binbougami never happened. Fortunately, that’s a lot easier to do after this one. If ever a comedy series needed a straightforward, stupidly funny episode, it was Binbougami Ga! Coming off an ep where everything was out of balance and off-key – the […] Read more
Wow – did Binbougami really just go there? That was certainly an eye-opening episode, but on balance it was definitely the weakest of the series for me so far. This was really the first time the character side of the equation felt off – this was a bit syrupy, heavy-handed […] Read more
Hot damn, is there any anime that doesn’t instantly get better by adding Tomatsu Haruka? Yet another hard show to blog, this one. There’s really nothing fancy going on here – just very good comedy that gets the details right most of the time. Between the machine-gun pacing and the […] Read more
Considering how different they are, it’s surprising how well the contrasting styles of Binbougami Ga! fit together. This is another one of those Summer series that’s easier to enjoy watching than it is to blog, but it’s nonetheless quite an interesting little shows. Binbougami is really two shows in one, […] Read more
Binbougami ga! is slowly turning into something I wasn’t expecting after the first couple of episodes. I’m not going to go so far as to call this show “deep”, but I’ve probably been a little too guilty of labeling it as another Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. While it has slipped into the […] Read more
Which one is the real one, indeed… If you’re going to be an anime comedy, bringing in Shimono Hiro to play a masochistic Dog God is probably never a bad idea. And Hiro-Hiro really sinks his teeth into the role of Momou the Inugami, an old bondage buddy of Momiji […] Read more