Episode 17 continued to spin the saga of the three ETU forwards, Sera, Sakai and Natsuki. The nice thing about this has been that none of them are bad guys – just competitors who want to play. Sera has been the one at the center of the narrative and thus […] Read more
Another week, another win for ETU – this time a hard-fought 1-0 league match over Yokohama. This was ETU’s third win in a row but they really had to earn it – Yokohama marked Gino with two men and forced ETU – unsuccessfully – to find their creativity elsewhere. The […] Read more
Although the entire pre-OP sequence is yet another recap, the pacing continues to pick up somewhat. On the day of the World Cup final, we get a new episode of Giant Killing, and an easy win by ETU. Revenging their earlier defeat at the hands of Nagoya, our heroes net […] Read more
Ah, Giant Killing – it’s the little series that could, the dark-horse of the spring season. No budget, no big names in the cast, no big studio muscle behind it, and not much of a following, apparently. But it just keeps chugging along, quality episode after quality episode. This week […] Read more
Well, much as I predicted ETU added another goal as Itagaki and the rest of Nagoya grew increasingly desperate to try and score the equalizer. It’s fascinating to watch this series unfold at the same time as the world cup – the experience of watching a real game and a […] Read more
Did I really just do that? It’s about time I blogged an episode of this show, because it’s one of my favorites of 2010. It seems to be a new golden age for sports anime, and GK is proving itself worthy of comparison with the best of them. While there […] Read more