I’m guessing that’s the first time in anime we’ve heard the line, “Dammit – how can something so tasty come out of an anus?!” OP: “Kiss you” by miwa Just to review, here are a few of the superlatives with Gin no Saji: Winner of the Manga Taishou Grand Prize […] Read more
That definitely goes down as an experience… OP:「私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い!」 (No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!) by (Konomi Suzuki and Kiba of Akiba) I had some idea of what to expect from Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui!, both […] Read more
Uchouten Kazoku is a series which holds tremendous promise, but it’s too early to see how the pieces are going to fit. OP: “Uchouten Jinsei (有頂天人生)” by milktub Going in, it seemed as if Uchouten Kazuku might be one of the tougher Summer series to nail down, and the premiere lives […] Read more
To some extent, Makai Ouji is truth in advertising. Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist is published in Weekly Zero Sum, the same magazine that features the likes of 07 Ghost and Karenval. As such you have a pretty clear idea of what to expect here, and in some ways we […] Read more
Let the comparisons begin… OP: “ViViD” by May’n At first – and even second and third – glance, there are a striking number of parallels between Blood Lad and Hataraku Maou-sama. In addition to a regular guy demon lord as the main character, there’s a machine-gun humor derived from a […] Read more
Genshiken is back, though seemingly largely unnoticed. I remember this series being fairly popular back in the day (it even spun off its own fictional anime, Kujibiki Unbalance), but it placed similarly low in both the LiA and RC preview polls and no one seems to be talking about it […] Read more
Ah, Kishi-san, Uezu-san – somehow it feels as if we’ve met here before. Well, that had some of the best WTF factor of any series I’ve seen for a while. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tried to get into a game adaptation by this director/writer team – […] Read more
Anime’s fanfiction all grown-up is back for another season. Senki Zesshou Symphogear is another of those series that was pretty close to my cutoff point for blogging more than once, which makes the decision on the sequel a little iffy. I liked it a fair amount, but never really loved […] Read more
Watching this episode, I kind of felt like David Bowman in the Stargate sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey… OP: “Watashi no Bara wo Kuuminasai (私の薔薇を喰みなさい)” by ALI PROJECT It’s been a long time since I’ve watched any Rozen Maiden anime – even longer since the events of this episode […] Read more
In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld, “It’s so nice when it happens good.” OP: “May I Help You? (めいあいへるぷゆー?)” by Lucy Yamagami (Ai Kayano), Saya Miyoshi (Mai Nakahara), Megumi Chihaya (Aki Toyosaki) Yesterday I found a premiere I actually hated, so it was especially rewarding to find one today […] Read more