Ah, Giant Killing – while the series continues to go mostly unnoticed (as most sports anime do in the West) it remains one of the best shows going. Week in and week out GK delivers solid episodes, and 18 was no exception. As always, GK does a great job re-creating […] Read more
I admit it – I’ve totally gone over to the dark side with this show. At some point in the last two episodes my resistance caved and I surrendered myself willingly to the raunchiness, tastelessness, meanness and outright wrongness of this entire enterprise. And I haven’t looked back. It’s as […] Read more
As episode 5 begins the reset button has been hit for this game adaptation, and we enter the platonic friend/tomboy/bed hair arc as Kaoru takes center stage. Thing start much the same as the Haruka arc did, with Junichi being stood up at the park on Christmas Eve. This time, […] Read more
Things certainly aren’t going well in little Sotoba. The body count grew impressively this episode, with Nao’s husband kicking off among others, and her son possibly right behind. We’re up to twenty now, and our intrepid Dr. Ozaki has finally decided it’s time to do something more than monitor the […] Read more
One step closer to an answer, but the mystery still remains. The return of Soma and Agni – and their curry-pan – brings pretty much the entire semi-regular cast of S1 back into the fold. With the exception of poor Madame Red, of course – she’s not coming back, but […] Read more
Episode 4 of Nurarihyon is pretty much straight action all the way through. Kana and Yura are right where we left them, being menaced by the Kyuuso Clan of rat demons. Yura kicked some rat tail with her shikigami, but when Kana was threatened she let her guard down and […] Read more
Now that was more like it. I love the baseball themed eps of Major – the series does them exceptionally well, though I’d like to see Goro at bat more – but the last few have started to drag on me. The drama has gotten heavy and a little obvious, […] Read more
Still great, this show – beautiful to look at, wonderfully acted and insanely clever. This ep might have been a very small step down from episode three, but it was still outstanding. The episode picks up more or less where the last ended, with Kozue still missing and now Maya […] Read more
I haven’t quite figured out if this series is intentionally mixing up an endless array of styles and tropes, or it’s just really, really confused. Either way, it’s certainly interesting to look at. An amazing amount of stuff continues to happen every episode. Things get revealed left and right – […] Read more
Episode 17 continued to spin the saga of the three ETU forwards, Sera, Sakai and Natsuki. The nice thing about this has been that none of them are bad guys – just competitors who want to play. Sera has been the one at the center of the narrative and thus […] Read more