Whatever Watanabe Wataru decides to write next, you can pretty much sign me up now. Not to be a broken record, but you can pretty much guess what happened on Majimoji Rurumo this week.  We had an oft-used trope that would normally be anywhere in a brought range from routine […] Read more

Watanabe-sensei just can’t resist getting a plug in for the bikes… Without any question, series that are groundbreaking and game-changing are something to be admired.  But the ability to reinvent the tried and true may, in a way, actually be more difficult.  How is it that Majimoji Rurumo is consistently […] Read more

What a charming bundle of contradictions is Majimoji Rurumo. In case you can’t tell, I’m quite taken with Majimoji Rurumo.  It’s hard to imagine two series more different than this and Yowamushi Pedal that are more unmistakably alike, the product of the same mind.  I’m glad one of them at […] Read more

Sometimes preaching is a lot easier than practicing. I’ll admit there were some nervous moments for me in the first half of this episode of Majimoji Rurumo.  In Watanabe we trust, but there were certainly missteps in Yowamushi Pedal as good as the series has been on the whole.  I’m […] Read more

Talk about a change in tone… I don’t think too many viewers will be surprised that this episode of Majimoji Rurumo was a vastly different experience than last week’s emotional haymaker.  That was certainly the outlier, at least so far – but maybe not quite so much as it seems.  […] Read more

What, you were expecting me to be able to resist that? It’s not surprising at all that Majimoji Rurumo had this sort of episode in it, really, or that it would choose to pursue it.  Good anime comedies more often than not are a blend of laughter and feels, and […] Read more

That might just have been as much fun as any anime episode this season. This was one of the real “wow” episodes of the season for me, and there haven’t been many of them.  It’s not that I necessarily liked it better than all the others, or that I didn’t […] Read more

This show is one serious trip in the wayback machine. Panty shots, magical girls, cats who transform into lolis, Hiro Shimono ecchi dudes, disciplinary committee Nazis with armbands – Majimoji Rurumo is pretty much your one-stop shop for retro-styled anime comedy.  There’s not an ounce of self-importance or irony to […] Read more