I’ll admit it up front – there’s not a whole lot that’s original about Dragon Crisis. There’s nothing that’s going to change your life, or the way you think about anime. It doesn’t possess spectacular animation or background music. But in spite of all that, I rather liked it. I […] Read more
Dragon Crisis ends as it ran, with an enjoyable though unexceptional conclusion. It was nothing if not comprehensive though, I’ll give it that. The good? For starters, we got not only a confession of love from Ryuji, but an actual kiss. How many romance series never even give the audience […] Read more
The penultimate episode of Dragon Crisis and things have come full circle – Onyx has come back and custody of Rose is the matter of the day, once again. Turns out Sapphie inadvertently set the stage for the current sequence of events by pushing Rose to complete the coming-of-age ceremony […] Read more
Dragon Crisis is back, with the first of back-to-back episodes. And as this series usually does, it delivers exactly what you expected – no more and no less. Another new character this week, and with it another mega-star seiyuu, Emiri Katou. This series is full of above the title voice […] Read more
Another entertaining, stylish episode of Dragon Crisis this week. While this isn’t breaking much new ground, the show just has a certain something I find appealing – a sense of style and slightly offbeat wit. This week was a heavily Misaki focused episode. She was doing her best Makoto (Kanon) […] Read more
Every season usually offers a show or two that don’t do anything to particularly to knock your socks off, but just has a quality to it that makes you like it. Wagaya no Oiniri-sama is a series that comes to mind for me, as does Yoshinaga San’chi no Gargoyle. They […] Read more
For my money that was clearly the best episode of Dragon Crisis since the premiere, and maybe period. It was well-paced, exciting, had a couple of nice hooks and tied up the Ai arc (for now) very neatly. Turns out Furomori is a former Society member pissed off because they […] Read more
It struck me tonight (probably because I watched this episode right after Fairy Tail 66) that Kugimiya Rie’s Rose voice is almost identical to her “Happy” voice. Stick a pair of wings on a land animal and I guess KugiRie’s got her character down. As for the episode itself, it […] Read more
The “St. George and the Dragon” arc lasted only two eps, which was too bad in the sense that I rather liked George Evans as a character. But plot cohesion isn’t the strength of this show so far, and the premise had definitely played itself out by the end of […] Read more
A definite shift to a lighter tone this week, and the introduction of a couple of new characters. After the accelerated events of the first three episodes, probably not a bad thing. Ryuuji is off to the beach on a pre-arranged trip to the beach with friends, which unfortunately sets […] Read more