Which Maeda Jun or are going to get here, I wonder? Charlotte – 02 For starters, I thought the second episode of Charlotte was clearly better than the first. The humor was hit and miss and the A-part was a bit draggy, but when things ratcheted up a few levels […] Read more
Another old friend returns, though this one from not so long an absence. DurararaX2 is back for the second of its three split cours, picking up more or less where the final episode of Shou left off. All in all this is a series that hasn’t held up as well […] Read more
Every time I think I’m out, they pull me right back in again… It’s certainly never a bad thing for an anime to finish with your best stuff, even if’s only a season break. And Durarara did that here, concluding “Shou” with what might have been the best episode of […] Read more
Next week had damn well better be worth the wait. Diamond no Ace – 74 As is too often the case with Daiya no A lately, we have to be patient through an awful lot of twaddle to get to the good stuff. And this time around we didn’t even […] Read more
One step forward, one step back? After what was the best episode of the season for Durarara, I had respectably high hopes that we were looking at a resurgence of he enthusiasm the first season generated – at least the levels the second cour did, anyway. But this one left […] Read more
Durarara! certainly is an interesting puzzle, in more ways than one. The thing is, DRRR is definitely starting to click for me, but the funny thing is I can’t say exactly why. It’s almost impossible for me to look at my positive reactions after an episode and my indifferent ones […] Read more
This arc is beginning to look very familiar… It’s tomorrow morning already, and if I wasn’t already exhausted from the last few days, this tortoise-like posting routine would be bad enough. So sorry DRRR, but it’s gonna be a brief one. Basically, it feels to me as if we’re going […] Read more
Did you hear about the sushi chef? He was Russian. Really? He should slow down. Durarara still isn’t firing on all cylinders for me. For whatever reason, it just isn’t the same experience. I do rather like the Russian Bratva, who are singularly weird and colorful (though often curiously pale) […] Read more
Not even Durarara, it seems, is immune from the anime cold. It was another pretty solid episode of DRRR this week, though I’d place it a notch below the last one and I’m still not quite… I don’t know what. The connection hasn’t quite taken – the wires aren’t joined, […] Read more
New episode, new arc, new Durarara? Sort of. I won’t say the fifth episode of Durarara!!X2 was a revelation, but it was definitely the best of the season as far as I’m concerned. This was really the first time I felt some of the spark I did in watching the […] Read more