I hope you were taking notes – I’ll expect a report by Noon tomorrow. The experience of watching Hoozuki no Reitetsu is quite unlike any other anime comedy – or anime – I can remember.  In a way I’m reminded of the old adage that 75% of communication is nonverbal, […] Read more

More than almost any anime, Hoozuki no Reitetsu reminds me how much I still don’t understand about Japanese culture. A funny thing happened on the way to this series being hopelessly obscure – “so far under the radar it might end up on a milk carton”, as I put it […] Read more

All the weirdness and twice the laughs in the second episode of Hoozuki no Reitetsu. This is one now definitely in the keeper list for Winter, though I doubt it’s going to generate much of a following among the English-language anime fanbase.  I loved the second episode and as I […] Read more