I have a suspicion that sometime during Valvrave’s development, someone asked “What’s it about?”, and someone else answered “Yes.” Well, somehow or another Valvrave the Liberator managed to find another plot thread that wasn’t in the blender yet – amnesia (it’s a good week for amnesia in anime).  One thing […] Read more

Oh, Valvrave – promise me you’ll never stop being you… Anime’s greatest whack-job is back, and the good news is that nothing has changed – Kakumeiki Valvrave can still dish out the guano and make it taste like filet mignon better than anything else on the air.  In some ways […] Read more

If only Valvrave would stop being so conservative and really go for it, it might just get somewhere. I have to say this for Kakumeiki Valvrave – it’s definitely the best one of whatever the hell it is that I’ve seen in a long time. Seriously – Sunrise really does […] Read more

I guess your take on this ep probably depends on the standard you use to measure. To say this is a tough episode to “grade” is putting it mildly.  On the one hand, I think it was the most conventionally successful Valvrave episode in the entire series, apart from the […] Read more

I’ll say this much for Valvrave the Liberator – it gives you plenty of reasons to love it and plenty of reasons to hate it, but it sure makes it hard to be neutral. Valvrave is certainly the most kitchen-sink ready of all the series this season – maybe of […] Read more

This series is really starting to make sense.  What I’m not sure of yet is whether or not that’s a good thing. There’s a truth in advertising element to Kakumeiki Valvrave in that for all its balls-out plot overload, it’s basically mixing and matching mecha and sci-fi cliches rather than […] Read more

Sorry, haters – that ep was simply awesome, and no amount of bitching can change that fact.  Stick that in your Guilty Crown. For starters, I can only give you what is without question my favorite exchange of ridiculous dialogue this season: “It seems that not even war can cure […] Read more

Ah, that’s how I like my Valvrave – extra crazy with a side of absurd. No half measures for me – if I’m going to connect with Kakumeiki Valvrave, it has to go all-in.  Last week’s ep was almost sensible by Valvrave standards, and that’s why it didn’t do much […] Read more

Yeah, this series is still pretty whacked.  But by Valvrave standards this ep was almost tame. Rukino Saki made quite an impression on me last episode, but this week I think she exceeded my expectations – though not entirely a good way.  It seems fitting that she chose to compare […] Read more

Valvrave the Liberator has definitely lapped loopy, and jumped straight to batshit nuts. As I watched this episode and the sheer bakayaroucity (Minami Chiaki’s word – it fits perfectly, but she gets the credit) gathered momentum like a boulder rolling down a ski jump, one thought kept playing in my […] Read more