Sorry it took so long, Noragami – I promise is wasn’t for lack off affection. This one has been sitting in my inbox for quite some time, and it’s not alone – the beginning of any season, especially Spring, is a tough time to fit in anything outside the broadcast […] Read more
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? The second episode of Little Busters! EX is very much more of the same. The same as the first episode, that is, which is quite a bit different than either season of LitBus the TV series. There still isn’t much of the original […] Read more
Another Saturday, another Natsume Yuujinchou OVA. As I said last time, any day with Natsume Yuujinchou in it is a good day. And while this OAD may not rank with the elite chapters in the anime’s history, it’s still Natsume – and that’s enough to put a smile on my […] Read more
Any day with Natsume Yuujinchou in it is a good day. It’s an auspicious winter indeed that brings us new Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi both, and we’ve had two Natsume OVAs and a Mushishi TV special in the span of about a month. Even better was the announcement that Mushishi […] Read more
That really hit the spot. The timing for watching the Yowapeda “Special Ride” OVA was perfect – which is odd, considering it was originally released (though never subbed) some months before the anime began. It works much better now, not least because it’s set in the days after the Souhoku […] Read more
A new year, and yet another new anime take on Little Busters!. OP Sequence: Let me open with the usual disclaimer: I haven’t played the VN and have no advance knowledge to speak of what takes place in EX. So I’m coming at this from the perspective of a new […] Read more
Well, I guess I put off watching it as long as possible. This is going to be a short one. I think I said pretty much everything I had to say about this OVA series and its place in the Rurouni Kenshin canon when I reviewed the first one, and […] Read more
More is better when it comes to Tonari no Seki-kun. The only bad thing about this OVA is that it confirms for me that the TV adaptation of Tonari no Seki-kun would be even better if it were 12 minutes instead of 6. I like the format of two chapters […] Read more
“Timeless” is a good word for Mushishi, in more ways than one. Various year-end anime polls like to include a category for “world-building” or some such description, and it’s hard to imagine Mushishi not coming out on top any time it’s eligible to compete. It’s truly remarkable how seamlessly I […] Read more
Yep, Blood Lad still entertains the heck out of me. Blood Lad is a sadly under-appreciated series, and something of a poster child for what’s wrong with the anime industry these days. It only got 10 episodes from Brains Base, which was just barely enough time to scratch the surface […] Read more