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
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