Perhaps more than any great series of recent vintage, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita has stubbornly refused to let the audience get a handle on just what kind of show it really is. I’m been grinding on trying to figure out just why director Kishi Seiji and AIC decided to adapt […] Read more

I’m starting to run out of ways to describe how Jinrui continues to amaze me. What’s one step up from “Queen”?  Why, God, of course – and Watashi learns a valuable lesson (yes, another one) in the danger or impulsive behavior where the Fairies are concerned.  Of course this being […] Read more

The social satire is strong with this one… It’s tempting to think of this episode as “A Faerie History of Japan”, but I suspect that would be reading a bit too much into the satire – and believe me, there’s plenty to read into it anyway.  Still, as an island […] Read more

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Seriously – my pathetic words cannot do justice to how effing brilliant this series is.  You’re going to have to forgive me for going into full fanboy mode for a […] Read more

This series is one of the most exquisite mind-benders in recent anime history. We’ve certainly seen time loops, cloning, temporal paradoxes and such used as themes in anime before.  But somehow Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita has a way of making the pieces fit together that manages to be intellectually dense without […] Read more

Having already demonstrated its brilliance at slapstick and satire, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita this weeks conclusively proves that it can do emotional depth, too. There’s just so much more going on in Jinrui right now than anything else airing that at times, it can almost feel like a lot of […] Read more

Well now, even by Jinrui’s whacked-out standards I’m not at all sure what to make of that one. First things first – was there a timeskip somewhere I didn’t catch, or a reference to this episode being a flashback?   I can’t think of obvious reason why Watashi seemed to meeting […] Read more