Ancient Chinese secret, huh? Lupin III: Mine Fujiko Iu Onna – 02 One thing I’ll say for this new incarnation of Lupin III – it absolutely drips style from every pore. It’s swimming in cool, this one – from the music to the wardrobes to the dialogue, the show just […] Read more
It’s not among the things I’m most proud of, but I can never hear “No Ayumu – you musn’t get any cuter!” and not find it funny. OP: “***Passionate” by Iori Nomizu I enjoyed parts of the first season of Kore wa Zombie very much. I called it a tragedy […] Read more
I don’t think there’s any question based on the posting traffic on Animesuki that this was one of the more popular series of the winter season. And it’s no wonder – it certainly hit a lot of the checkpoints. Busty girls, flat-chested but genki loli, uber-kawaii necromancer. Zombies. Magical girls. […] Read more
That went pretty much as expected. The finale of Kore wa Zombie was more or less episode 11 – 12 was a complete throwaway episode primarily concerned with comedy and fanservice. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So what did we get for our 22 minutes? A pool episode. […] Read more
Well, in many ways that played like a finale. In fact, I’m guilty of not checking the episode count and with about a minute to go, I was pretty sure that was that. But given that the next ep is titled “Yes, There’s More” it’s pretty safe to assume the […] Read more
A nice return to form this week for this series. The show has suffered from lazy writing from time to time, but in the last two episodes it’s seemed especially apparent. Well, this week was focused, on-point and had a nice mix of (mostly) serious stuff and comedy. We have […] Read more
If the rotation held this would be a serious week on Kore Wa Zombie, and sure enough that’s exactly what we got. Though there were certainly a few moments of silliness the episode followed the pattern of alternating humorous and serious eps. As suspected the King of Night had in […] Read more
In some respects this episode encapsulated everything that’s good and everything that’s bad about Kore was Zombie Desu Ka? It was peppered with moments of inspired comedy and clever dialogue, but all too often fell back on the tired running jokes that stopped being funny by the second time they […] Read more
I’ll state it for the record – that might be one of the strangest 22 minutes of anime I’ve seen. There’s no question that the POV of this show is rather warped, but they may have topped themselves with this one – all the more because it was coming on […] Read more
Whoa, that episode was full of surprises – in so many ways. Not least, how serious it was – there wasn’t anywhere close to the roughly 70-30 mix of screwball comedy to action and drama here – closer to 90-10 in the other direction. First off, we were treated to […] Read more