It’s not too late to start the best show this season you aren’t watching.  And you’ll have three months to catch up… When it comes to intrigue in the best sense of the word, Concrete Revolutio may just be the best series of the season.  It’s jam-packed with interesting ideas […] Read more

This universe is apparently still in its expansion phase. It was officially announced this week that Concrete Revolutio is going to be a split cour series, though of course if you’ve been following the posts here that will come as no surprise to you.  It’s a damn good thing, too, […] Read more

Say hello to the kitchen sink. I wouldn’t want to make the argument that Concrete Revolutio is the best show of the season – it sports too many flaws for that to be the case.  But it may just be the most consistently interesting show of the season.  It’s dense, […] Read more

That was a fitting episode for a series with as elastic a concept of time as this one. Concrete Revolutio continues to be a survey course in paranormal phenomena and Japanese history.  It remains as superficially confusing as ever but while it may be my imagination, I can almost convince […] Read more

I know most of you aren’t paying attention, but you should be. If Concrete Revolutio were a song, I think it would be The Monkees “Shades of Grey”… When the world and I were young, Just yesterday. Life was such a simple game, A child could play. It was easy […] Read more

Concrete Revolutio grows more compelling every week. There’s a crazy sort of brilliance to this series, I think.  Make no mistake – it’s one of those “doomed to fail” shows Bones produces every so often, and seems destined to be on the honor roll of anime featuring the largest gulf […] Read more

I give up – more or less. You know, the truth is I still can’t make sense out of Concrete Revolutio.  It’s not so much that the narrative is confusing – though it certainly is – but the series itself.  I like to find the rationale in things, and in […] Read more

Whatever Aikawa and Mizushima are taking, I hope they leave some for me. I just don’t know what to do with Concrete Revolutio.  I mean, I want to write about it but I’m not sure where to start. It’s such an unholy mess of jumbled-up genres and tropes that trying […] Read more