Here’s some good news – a bonus episode of Hoozuki no Reitetsu. It had been widely reported – at least in every source I saw – that Hoozuki no Reitetsu was going to be 12 episodes long.  Happily, there’s going to be a 13th next week (one which I assume […] Read more

Japanese Culture class is back in session… This is really the first time since very early in Hoozuki no Reitetsu’s run that I’ve felt a bit left out of the joke.  The entire episode was pulled straight from Japanese legends and fairy tales (and just my luck, none of them […] Read more

So wrong, and yet so right… There was an interesting bit of news this week with the announcement that the first volume of the Hoozuki no Reitetsu Blu-ray/DVD was delayed by four weeks.  I have no idea why (presumably production delays), but I obviously hope there isn’t a negative impact […] Read more

It’s another tough week for the translators. In a sense, this episode of Hoozuki no Reitetsu seemed a lot closer in spirit to the first couple of episodes than the last few.  The difference is that I’m so wrapped up in the sensibility of the series now that it doesn’t […] Read more

I’m buying pretty much everything Hoozuki no Reitetsu is selling at the moment. The development of this series is unidirectional at this stage, and it’s the right direction – it just keeps getting better and better every week.  Or else it was this great all along and it’s simply taken […] Read more

Anime comedy doesn’t get a whole lot better than that. It’s a shame there’s not enough material for a second season of Hoozuki no Reitetsu yet, because from the looks of things it would be very likely to get one if there were.  As of now Stalker predicts this will […] Read more

That’s certainly a new meaning of the word “asshat”. Winter 2014 is shaping up as the worst season in the Blu-ray era for anime sales (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though that’s a topic for a full post).  But not for all of them – 3 of the top […] Read more

Yep, definitely the oddest series of the season… I’m glad I don’t have to work on this series’ marketing campaign for Sentai Filmworks, because I wouldn’t want the job of trying to sell this series for all the caterpillar fungus in China.  I have a suspicion anyone still watching it […] Read more