So that’s one “maybe” and one “no”. Tokyo Ravens – 01 Tokyo Ravens was solidly in the middle of my expectations range. It’s a story about Onmyoudo, which I like, but it’s a LN adaptation from a studio without a long list of accomplishments. Pretty good but not great staff […] Read more
Gundam may just have topped everyone in the race to be retro. Non Non Biyori – 01 Of all the sleepers on my Fall list, this might have been the deepest. At least, it’s the show that seemed to dovetail least with my tastes in anime. It was strictly a […] Read more
It’s a good time to be a fan of sports anime. OP: “Reclimb” by ROOKIEZ is PUNK’D There are a bunch of sports anime this season – which is a nice change from recent history in and of itself – but there were two shows I was really targeting as […] Read more
The themes of this season just keep asserting themselves. There’s clearly something to mangaka Yasuda Suzuhito’s Yozakura Quartet that compels, because anime keeps coming back to it over and over. But this series is really less about Yasuda-sensei’s manga and more about Ryo-timo, the auteur who directs and provides animation […] Read more
We’ve had a show jump from off the radar into the sleeper category in White Album 2 – can one of my sleeper picks going into the season live up to its side of the bargain? OP: “tiny lamp” by fhána The old school theme is very prominent this season […] Read more
So far, Fall 2013 has a distinctly old school flavor to it – at least the tiny corner of the schedule that overlaps with my tastes, anyway. OP: “Go EXCEED!!” by Tom-H@ck featuring Masayoshi Ōnishi I love sports manga, and the anime that come from them. Not all of them, […] Read more
And so enters the first wild card of my Fall schedule. I bailed pretty early on the first White Album anime – long before all the headdesk melodrama that seemed to have viewers of the series in agony, in fact. I was just bored and stopped watching so I don’t […] Read more
There is a secret of this world – but it isn’t that Kuragaya is a badass. That was already pretty obvious. OP: “Boys be Smile” by Suzuyu Here we are again, beginning another go-around with Little Busters! (though not the last, as Ecstasy has already been announced, with Kud Wafter […] Read more
Yes, we’ve been here before – more or less. The elephant in the room with Log Horizon isn’t just Sword Art Online. It’s also the many other variations on this theme that have come before, inside of anime and out (the best of which is Tad Williams fantasy trilogy Otherland). […] Read more
After a flying start to Fall, here’s a first look at a couple of titles that weren’t in the pre-season top tier. Outbreak Company – 01 My take on Outbreak Company in the Fall Preview was “I hope the author knows just how dumb the premise sounds and is in […] Read more