I hesitate to let myself get too involved with this show, considering that this week’s release is the first sub in almost three months. But damn, it’s certainly good. It’s weird to go back to a series after so long away, but I was swept back into the setting quickly […] Read more
I confess it’s been so long since I last watched an episode of Hyouge Mono that I had to go back and review the events of the last one. In the interim, the guitarist of Cro-Magnon, the band responsible for the wonderful OP, was arrested for marijuana possession and the […] Read more
The subs continue to trickle in for this series, one of the strangest, best and most thoughtful of the season. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to watch an episode but I was immediately swept up again in the strange and vivid universe it creates. It doesn’t go […] Read more
If the boundaries between eras and between fact and fiction ever loosed enough to allow me to share company with Sasuke, I would love to play poker with him. I suspect he may be the worst poker face in human history. Damn, that was fascinating. We’re really being treated to […] Read more
Hyouge Mono is without question the strangest and unlikeliest anime of this increasingly impressive Spring season. It comports to almost no accepted anime standard that I’m aware of. It features no moe, no cute girls, almost no women at all, no bishounen, and in the midst of the bloodiest period […] Read more
Memo to Japan: Just what the fuck are you thinking? I would really love to know who gave the green light to this series. An anime – three cours, no less, from early reports – about a tea master. Just who, exactly, is the target audience for this thing? Besides, […] Read more