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
Context is everything I suppose – and Tonari no Seki-kun is looking a lot better than it did a week ago. Tonari no Seki-kun – 02 Since Tonari no Seki-kun is looking like the best comedy of the season even at 5 minutes (unless you consider Space Dandy a pure […] Read more
In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld, this is going to be a shame. Pupa – 01 I can’t imagine this is what Mochzuki Tomomi had in mind when he signed on to direct Pupa for DEEN. We’re talking about one of the most respected directors in anime, doing what […] Read more
That episode of Kingdom was one of those anime episodes that felt like it lasted about four minutes. Yozakura Quartet ~Hana no Uta~ – 10 This was an odd little episode of Yozakura Quartet, the series where even the eyecatches have panty shots. We’re only two weeks away from the […] Read more
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