For the love of God, Sidonia, please stop trying to be funny. Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki – 05 Is there a show that’s less adept at comedy than Sidonia, yet still attempts it so often? It’s really egregious – not only is every stab at humor basically the […] Read more
Almost caught up now… Kyoukai no Rinne – 05 Happy Boys’ Day, the close of Japan’s Golden Week and (hopefully) of my gastrointestinally-induced posting delays (no promises). We jump in here with two of the last bubble series of the season, firstly Kyoukai no Rinne. This one fell into the […] Read more
Look out – it’s got a gun! Owari no Seraph – 05 There are some strikes against this series that would normally be large enough to be insurmountable, but I’m going to give it yet one more episode. Why? Two reasons, the first being that it looks as if it’s […] Read more
Kyoukai no Rinne is emerging as one of the sleepers of the season. Sort of. I don’t know if Kyoukai no Rinne is just growing on me, of if the anime is better than the manga. Either way I find myself not just enjoying this series more week upon week, […] Read more
And sometimes the three-episode rule is plenty. Plastic Memories – 03 I’m afraid this is the end of the line for me with Plastic Memories, at least in terms of blogging it – I’ll watch another ep or two to see if it surprises me, but I’m increasingly convinced that […] Read more
This pair isn’t exactly your one-stop shopping for pulse-quickening excitement. Mikagura Gakuen Kumiyoku – 02 I think it would be fair to say that the problems with the second episode of Mikagura were easy to predict. Namely, that once you got past he veneer of insanity and things calmed down […] Read more
When I trial a show based solely on the studio behind it and nothing else, things rarely end well… Houkago no Pleiades – 01 Truth be told, it’s hard for me to watch Houkago no Pleiades without a heavy heart, and that’s because of what it isn’t rather than what […] Read more
This is definitely not A-1’s finest day. Gunslinger Stratos – 01 My attachment to Gunslinger Stratos was always pretty tenuous – basically, Urobuchi Gen’s tangential involvement in drafting the scenario for the game the anime is based on. I went into this story about a future where Japan is split […] Read more
Next week had damn well better be worth the wait. Diamond no Ace – 74 As is too often the case with Daiya no A lately, we have to be patient through an awful lot of twaddle to get to the good stuff. And this time around we didn’t even […] Read more
I had no idea when I called Shirobako a WUG for the anime production world that it would turn out to be as true as it has. Shirobako – 05 First off, I would certainly acknowledge that Shirobako is an interesting series – and that it’s better, on the whole, […] Read more