It really is funny how there’s an inverse relationship between how hard Fumetsu no Anata e tries to be heartbreaking, and how heartbreaking it actually is. Read more

“Kaibutsu banzai!” indeed. Read more

Fumetsu no Anata e has a strange and often wonderful way of looking at the world, and the less hard it tries to be ingratiating the more charming it is. Read more

Now that was more like it. Read more

The contrast between permanence and impermanence is very much at the heart of this story, and that’s a subject inherently laden with melancholy. Read more

World building involves a lot of heavy lifting, and that isn’t always the most gripping or elegant part of a story to watch play out. Read more

I’d have taken one look at that battleship with hair and decided by arrows weren’t going to do any good whatsoever. Read more

While this episode is not close to the masterpiece the premiere was, it has a different job to do and it does it well. Read more