When a note-faithful adaptation of a brilliant manga opens a season with two letter-perfect episodes, it’s hard not to be optimistic about what’s to come. *This is a special dual post with Zephyr from RC, my fellow Jormungand fan… I loved the first season of Jormungand, but there were times […] Read more

As we end the first season of Jormungand – as we should, with Jonah and Koko squarely in focus – my thoughts are right where they were when I read the manga: there’s nothing else quite like this series. As is my usual practice I won’t do a “Series Review” […] Read more

Jormungand will sometimes let you forget just how ugly and brutal a world it is, but never for too long. Season one looks like it will continue it’s note-faithful adaptation right up to the end, finishing with a two-part adaptation of Valmet’s arc (though curiously changing its name in the […] Read more

“The lady doth protest too much, Methinks.” – Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act III It took a little while for this adaptation of Jormungand to hit its stride, but it’s now right there with the best series of the season.  It’s hard to say just why that is, given just how note-faithful […] Read more

Parents – don’t swing your kids by the arms like that, it’s very bad for them.  The more you know. Well, they left it in for a change – Jonah’s voice-over narration that is.  This was one of his more critical internal monologues, sort of the acid test of whether […] Read more

Did you get all that? That was about as inside the beltway an episode of Jormungand as we’ve seen so far, and that’s saying something.  In general I like the arcs from this series that are steeped in politics and the minutiae of the arms racket less than the ones that deal […] Read more

I suspect this might be an ep that will shake the tree a little when it comes to Jormungand. I remember it was just about this point where I really surrendered myself to Jormungand the manga and began to love it unreservedly.  Interestingly, I’ve also read some reviews where readers […] Read more

Jormungand rule #1: every boss must have a sexy, badass female bodyguard. After easily its two most emotionally transparent episodes to date, Jormungand is back testing the audience again with one closer to it’s earlier form.  I’m hard pressed to think of a manga with a complicated plot that explains […] Read more

With this episode, clearly, Jormungand has stepped up to claim its place as one of the best shows of the season. This has been an extraordinarily faithful adaptation of Takahashi Keitarou’s manga so far – more so than I expected in fact, given how unconventional the first volume of the […] Read more