Seki-kun is really raising the bar every week. The show, too. Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara – 07 This is a pretty odd series to begin with, but I found that episode especially strange. There were quite a few moments when I was rather confused as to what was happening […] 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
Oh yeah, Yokoi is hopelessly ensnared now. Tonari no Seki-kun – 19 The little show that could just keeps delivering. This is very much the same sort of impact the manga has – it’s just these brilliant little observations one right after the other, wearing down your resistance until you’re […] Read more
The most damning of all faint praise – “it could have been worse”… Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii – 06 I was tempted to limit my review of Soredemo Sekai to a single sentence this week – “The less I say about this episode the better.” But the truth is by […] Read more
Seki-kun wins! Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara – 05 The phrase that leaps to mind for Gawoware is “curiously compelling”. Surely, this is one of the strangest series of the year. That’s not enough to make a show worthwhile on its own, obviously, but it is interesting – and so […] Read more
Why can’t all of Sidonia no Kishi look like the eyecatches? Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou – 05 We’re almost at the halfway point of this series, so the decision really can’t be dragged out much longer. But more and more Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou is looking like one of those […] Read more
Yokoi wins! Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara – 04 Well now – thinks got pretty serious there for a bit. This is a bit of a funny show, Gaworare is (funny-unusual, though it is pretty funny-“ha ha” as well). It’s uncommon to see a series where the canon plot and […] Read more
Hunter X Hunter is back! No, it has nothing to do with either show, Just felt like repeating it. Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara – 03 I officially like this show. Yeah, it’s pretty lowbrow in most respects, but it ain’t brainless, believe me. This is a very clever show […] Read more
Ok, I have to ask – what the hell is the deal with the bear? Sidonia no Kishi – 02 I certainly want to like this show, but there are some major flies in the ointment. Between the really ugly character CGI and the fact that a big story is […] Read more
Doskoi! Tonari no Seki-kun – 15 I guess it’s pretty much official now that the reports of TV Seki-kun’s demise were incorrect, as it’s now aired two weeks in a row as scheduled this season. I won’t be foolish enough to try and predict what’s going to happen with the […] Read more