Puck and Pitz are the top bosses. It’s a good general rule of thumb that as soon as I seriously consider dropping a series I’ve been covering for a long time it will deliver its best work, and Captain Earth is no exception. The general trend has been upwards but […] Read more
When it comes to anime blogging, weekends are survival of the fittest. Haikyuu!! – 14 The new season has me in a bit of a pinch, schedule-wise. Sundays were (as usual) the busiest day of the week last season, and that problem has only gotten worse with most of my […] Read more
Taken either as an ending or a beginning, this episode finds Captain Earth in a pretty good place. It hasn’t exactly come back from the dead like a blowed-up and drowned yakuza, but Captain Earth has certainly shown a new vigour over the last few weeks. After a span of […] Read more
The first rule of Immortal Yakuza Fight Club is you do not talk about Immortal Yakuza Fight Club. Captain Earth is starting to get positively Valvraveian in its plotting. You name it, we’re seeing it – and my initial suspicion that this was an amalgam of sci-fi and mecha tropes […] Read more
A squirrel or a bust – which would you choose, Akari? Sidonia no Kishi – 10 I’m quite stumped as to where Sidonia no Kishi is headed with only three episodes left. The story is definitely still in the expansion phase with no signs of that reversing soon, and the […] Read more
I’ll say this for Sidonia no Kishi – it’s certainly giving us an interesting love triangle. Boy, placenta, and gender unspecified (though there is the annoying overachiever XO Midorikawa in there too). Sidonia no Kishi – 09 There was an interesting development in the world of Sidonia no Kishi this […] Read more
If you’re looking for Ogone energy in Tokyo, Shinjuku (Kabuki-cho specifically) is probably as good a place as any… If only science could put Captain Earth and Sidonia no Kishi together, like human and gauna – combining their best elements into one super-being. Well – maybe not a super-being – […] Read more
If you stepped up to a roulette table and the dealer was a 17 year-old kid, wouldn’t that set up a few alarm bells that something wasn’t right?? I was going to question the logic of a casino that (naturally) doesn’t allow minors as customers but does allow them to […] Read more
Sci-fi Saturday indeed… Sidonia no Kishi – 06 I hesitate to group these two shows together in a single post, because it’s not really fair to either of them – apart from both being science fiction there isn’t much that links them, and the constant comparisons are more than a […] Read more
The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but straight lines just aren’t the way of BONES sci-fi. We’re getting there, slowly but surely – the pieces are starting to fit together with Captain Earth. I admit there were a few things I completely got wrong – […] Read more