Sometimes the fiercest battles come without the raising of a single fist. There’s no question that Kingdom sports some of the finest writing of any series in the past year. It stands out like a sore thumb for a multitude of reasons, that being only one: as a sweeping military/political […] Read more
Kingdom slips quietly in on little cat feet, almost unnoticed… Kingdom is a series I’m really torn on as a blogger. I kick myself for dropping it, because I did so just when it was getting really good and mostly missed out on talking about one of the bravura seiyuu […] Read more
There’s something to be said for finishing a season with your best material ever. I’m very much divided about Kingdom. On the one hand, I can’t help but think with regret about what might have been. If this series had been animated in grand style by Production I.G. or BONES, […] Read more
One-word review: Wang-Qi. That is all. Read more
Now that’s what I call a digest post. I’ve finally caught up with Kingdom, though it took a while. There’s absolutely no way I could hope to write anything intelligible about 19 episodes worth of material, but I did say I’d check back in with this show when noteworthy events […] Read more
Damn, this show is hard to blog. You know the drill by now. Lots of good stuff happening on-screen, but not a lot of interpretation necessary. In the episodes where politics and strategy don’t play a big part (this was definitely one of those) Kingdom is one of the most […] Read more
Well now, there’s some straight-up GAR for you. I really enjoy Kingdom (especially when the animation is tolerable, as it was this week) but as I’ve mentioned before, there are times when it isn’t the easiest show to write about. There’s a WYSIWYG quality to it most of the time, […] Read more
It may be old-fashioned and not too pretty to look at, but Kingdom keeps building momentum – even if hardly anyone’s around to notice. As is the standard for war epics, there’s a sense of watching pieces being moved about on a big chess board. The interesting question here for […] Read more
Turns out there was a trap in Kingdom after all – but… All in all I’d say this was one of the best episodes of Kingdom to date, starting with the most obvious element – the animation. It was positively lush by Kingdom standards – hardly any CG, and halfway […] Read more
I guess the upshot of this week’s Kingdom is more or less “youth will be served”. As expected, the focus of this week’s episode was mostly on the introduction of the “fearsome men of the mountains” to the story (and it was refreshingly free of bad CG for the most […] Read more