Tamayura really ought to come with either a warning label or an insulin shot. Brother’s Conflict – 01 I confess I didn’t make it through the premiere of Brother’s Conflict. It only took me about three minutes to figure out that this was not working for me in any way, […] Read more
Let the insanity begin – Free! at last. OP: “Rage on” by OLDCODEX I can’t imagine the content of the first episode of Free! would surprise too many viewers, but there’s still an awful lot to talk about. I think a few things were pretty much a given: this is […] Read more
Gifuu Dodou should be manly enough to satisfy even the most manly of tastes. Pretty much everything you need to know about this series you can guess from the writer/director and the time slot. It’s based on a manga by Hara Tetsuo, famous for Fist of the North Star, who’s […] Read more
Summer season, start. LiA kicks off the season with another “earlycast” from Niconico, with the usual craptacular quality. If I decide to stick with Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi it’s going to be a similar decision to RDG: watch the netcast and blog, or wait for the HD releases? That decision […] Read more
Hentai Ouji probably isn’t my cup of tea, but I can see where it’s pretty good at what it does. Wai, it’s another LN adaptation with a long title and alliterative character names to show us how clever it is – and it stars Kaji Yuuki to boot. Both those […] Read more
That was one premiere that could never be accused of being boring. Sunrise is probably the epicenter of the mecha universe as far as a plurality of anime fans are concerned. While some (me included) would argue Evangelion is the seminal mecha anime (and probably anime, period) of all-time, and […] Read more
If you were worried that the magic would be gone, I think you can relax – Haiyore! is just as agreeably nuts as ever. This is a wholly unsurprising sequel, and it’s a wholly unsurprising show as well. Haiyore delivers what we expect most of the time, and that’s usually […] Read more
We’ve been down this road with Satelight before, and it’s a worrying one. I mentioned earlier tonight in my Mushibugyou review (sorry Stilts, I liked it) that it was an advantage not to have any experience with a source material when it undergoes significant changes for an anime. I have […] Read more
Here’s another one that was pretty far off my radar screen, but… I wasn’t expecting to find too much to interest me in Mushibugyou, which is why I didn’t include it in the season preview post. And especially after the hatchet job RC did on it (Hell hath no fury […] Read more
The eternal quest for a truly great Gen Urobuchi series is off to a terrific start. I was a bit worried about the Spring season after the first batch of premieres, but this weekend has brought a pretty impressive crop. Some of that is the power of sheer numbers, of […] Read more