I’ll say this much for Fall – so far, it’s consistent. Donten ni Warau – 01 It’s been a strange week of blogging for me, cobbling together whatever time and resources I could to try and keep up with the barrage of new premieres and the continuing flow of old […] Read more
NOnoda? No problem. OP: “Determination” by LASTGASP It’s always great to welcome back an old friend like Yowamushi Pedal, which returns to the airwaves after a brief one-season absence (many thanks to Majimoji Rurumo for keeping the Watanabe Wataru slot ably filled). Yowapeda was one of the surprise (to most) […] Read more
Sora no Method is a real test for me, in so many ways. Sora no Method – 01 There’s not much about Sora no Method that would draw me to it under normal circumstances. Only one thing, in fact, though it’s an important one – it’s an original series by […] Read more
Saturday is definitely the right day of the week here. World Trigger – 01 Phanfone (that has to be one of the strangest typhoon names ever) continues to bear down on Japan, my sisters continue to run me ragged, my body continues to expunge the unsightly residue of a weeklong […] Read more
I certainly appreciate Denkigai no Honya-san a lot more than I would have before I moved to Tokyo. I knew Denkigai no Honya-san was broadly a parody of life in a comic store in an Akihabara-like neighborhood, but I had no idea that it was going to be so nakedly […] Read more
I know I’ve been running a fever and all, but I didn’t expect to hallucinate that it was 1977. While my cold seems to be in retreat, it’s Midnight and I’m utterly exhausted from tour-guiding my sisters, with more posts to go, so just a brief first impression sampling today. […] Read more
I guess this series is anime’s revenge for Inception… With the notable difference, of course, that most of the people watching Tokyo ESP (basically all of them) actually know what X-Men is, while less than 1% of the people who watched Inception in theaters had ever hear of Satoshi Kon. […] Read more
So far, Summer is full of series that are meeting expectations – and that’s mostly a good thing. I’m surprised by how happy I am to have Kuroshitsuji back. I always liked it but it’s not a franchise I’ve thought about all that much since the last OVAs appeared (in […] Read more
Mappa. Watanabe. Kanno. NoitaminA. You were expecting anything less? OP: “Trigger” by Yuki Ozaki The last of my top tier of summer anime in terms of anticipation weighs in, and like the shows that came before it, Zankyou no Terror lived up to the billing for the first week at […] Read more
This one looks like it’s shaping up to be a pretty good tolerance meter. As anyone in the industry knows, if you want to attract female fans the most surefire method is two (it must be two, not one or three) exclamation points in your title. And I don’t think […] Read more