Turns out Mt. Maeda is an active volcano… Witch Craft Works – 11 I guess the message of this episode is that the secret to magic power is in the shirt. Or something. Anyway… We’re still in full-on plot mode with Witch Craft Works, which clearly has a lot on […] Read more
You’ve got the wrong game, Gotou – this is golf, not tennis. Unless you’re talking about Davis there’s no love in golf…. Witch Craft Works – 10 The massive infusion of plot continues with this episode of Witch Craft Works, which is following the pattern many such madcap series do […] Read more
“Sasuga Seki-kun”. If ever the shoe fit… Tonari no Seki-kun – 09 “A boy knitting?” Let’s not get too caught up in old-fashioned gender roles, Yokoi-chan. Especially when the boy is Seki-kun, for whom no art, craft or skill can be limited by something as confining as gender politics. By […] Read more
That was pretty random even by WCW standards. Tonari no Seki-kun – 08 Shogi makes a return this week on Tonari no Seki-kun, with the focus this time shifting to family drama. Not surprisingly a story of forbidden love is even more irresistible to Yokoi than Seki-kun’s usual antics – […] Read more
Even in the wake of possibly the best anime episode in the last year, the rest of the schedule does soldier on… Tonari no Seki-Kun – 6/7 Honestly, an episode like this week’s Hunter X Hunter pretty much ruins me for other anime for a while. It’s so completely on […] Read more
That was a new spin on identity theft. Witch Craft Works – 05 The danger of any show whose primary appeal (for me, anyway) is randomness is that when it focuses on plot or character – or, God forbid, starts to make sense – some of the magic is gone. […] Read more
Sometimes I wonder if studios plan these things in advance. Tonari no Seki-kun – 04 Having mastered the vagaries of Shogi, our intrepid time-waster turns his hand to Go with similarly off-kilter results. I was hoping perhaps for a direct reference or two to a certain Shounen Jump series, but […] Read more
Sometimes the three-episode rule simply isn’t enough. Nobunagun – 03 It was a bit of a thematic change-of-pace for Nobunagaun this week with a training episode, but the series as a whole is in a bit of a holding pattern for me. It’s marginally more interesting in execution than it […] Read more
It’s been quite a week for Wake Up, Girls, even before it aired. Golden Time – 14 I’m not sure where I stand with Golden Time at the moment, to be honest. Is demotion to a digest post a precursor to termination? Yeah, that’s possible – in all honesty it […] Read more
Two episodes in, I’m still not sure if there’s a reason this season of Chuunibyou exists apart from the obvious commercial one. Chuunibyou 2 – 02 I remain on the fence about blogging this season of Chuunibyou. There was nothing especially wrong with this week’s episode, just as there was […] Read more