If action is your thing, these two shows offered up plenty to smile about this week. Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta – 07 I hate to be a broken record (do people still get that reference? Well – even a broken clock is right twice a day…), but Hana no […] Read more
That was an episode that put the “epic” in historical epic. Kingdom 2 – 23 Bad CGI and all, this last sequence of battles has been one of the best I’ve seen in anime for a long time. Admittedly that’s a pretty low bar since hardly anyone is doing this […] Read more
Meng Tian has certainly been the conspicuously absent figure over the last few episodes of Kingdom, but it was always only a matter of time before he made his presence felt in a big way. Kingdom 2 – 22 I’ve had the feeling for a while that Meng Tian was […] Read more
One stays, one goes. Kyoukai no Kanata – 05 It’s funny, but somewhere along the line KyouKan has leveled up a little and it’s hard to say exactly why. The last two eps have certainly been the best – it’s a bit more self-apparent with #4, which was simply the […] Read more
It’s nice to see than anime can still tell stories like the one Kingdom is telling. Kingdom 2 – 21 It’s not as if the field is crowded with nominees, but it’s pretty hard to think of an anime in the last several years that does better at depicting large […] Read more
Now that’s lycanthropy with a capital “like”. Outbreak Company – 04 I’m still pretty much right on the fence with Outbreak Company. It’s just a little better than you expect it to be – a little smarter, a little more self-aware, a little funnier. Is it brilliant? No, but it […] Read more
Breaking up is hard to do… Tokyo Ravens – 03 Tokyo Ravens is still a series I want to like – and there are parts of it I do like – but it has two huge flaws that are proving hard for me to overcome: too much bad CGI and […] Read more
These are two series with some interesting parallels, but one of them is working considerably better for me than the other. Outbreak Company – 03 Outbreak Company is definitely a better show than I figured it would be going in, though I’m at the three-episode cutoff and it’s still right […] Read more
Mecha and Onmyouji is a pretty unusual pairing for anime. Tokyo Ravens – 02 I place this show is the same broad category as Kyoukai no Kanata in terms of overall quality (perhaps a little better), but the two make an interesting contrast in terms of the reasons why. Whereas […] Read more
Just for fun I thought I’d pair up two of the most mismatched shows ever. Gingitsune – 02 Gingitsune is certainly a steak without a whole lot of sizzle. While the art is quite attractive the animation itself is quite basic, even rough. Plot-wise the focus so far has been […] Read more