I’m officially rooting for Yakushi at this point.  Does that make me a bad person? Well, naturally Daiya no A would decide to start off 2016 by royally pissing me off – must be payback for initially leaving it off my 2015 Top 20 list.  It says something for how […] Read more

Lots of headlines to choose from there… One of the more interesting games in the annals of Diamond no Ace finally draws to a close, and the stage is finally set for the final that’s been teased all season long.  But we’re going to have to wait at least one […] Read more

It looks so easy with episodes like this one… Make no mistake about it, as much as I like Daiya no A, this is one of the more frustrating sports anime I’ve followed.  It’s hard not to ask why it is that a series capable of episodes as good as […] Read more

Furuya noticed something about another person?  Did that really just happen? The next couple of weeks on Daiya no A figured to be pretty tough.  The focus is going to be on two secondary teams while we’re forced to wait on what Seidou’s team is going to look like in […] Read more

Hell has indeed frozen over. Time to put the ugliness of last week’s inexplicable ending behind us, because there are preliminaries to settle before we can get down to the main event of the cour – and we sure as hell weren’t getting an explanation from this week’s episode.  There […] Read more

Huh?? Well, I’m baffled.  First off, it must be said that was a rather good episode of Ace of Diamond on the whole.  At the very least it was a marked improvement over the last couple of weeks, which is hardly surprising given that it was Eijun pitching.  Things were […] Read more

As the greatest Beatle said, Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues.  And you know it don’t come easy. Not if you’re Sawamura Eijun, anyway. In all honesty, I’m really not feeling this game.  I’m not buying Furuya’s hero act, and I’m not buying that […] Read more

Seriously?  I mean – seriously?? I think it’s probably official at this point – Diamond no Ace has pissed me off more than any other show I’ve watched for this long.  And I don’t man mild irritation, I mean really genuinely pissed off.  It’s almost become cyclical at this point […] Read more

No doubt about it – Anpanman is this anime season’s leader when it comes appearances in other anime. At this point I’m so used to seeing early adversity for Seidou that I wasn’t quite sure how to react to the first two innings of their matchup with Seikou.  I mean, […] Read more