I’m officially rooting for Yakushi at this point. Does that make me a bad person? Well, naturally Daiya no A would decide to start off 2016 by royally pissing me off – must be payback for initially leaving it off my 2015 Top 20 list. It says something for how […] Read more
What a remarkable story this show is turning out to be. OP2: Zenryoku Batankyuu” by AŌP There’s not much I could say in criticism of this episode of Osomatsu-san, which kicks off the second of what I assume will be many, many cours of anime in spectacularly funny and disturbing […] Read more
There’s no hiding the fact that 2015 wasn’t a great year for anime, but if you squint hard enough you can see signs of hope. As I take stock of what’s happened in anime, not just in the year just-ended but the last several years, a few things become clear. […] Read more
In assessing an anime year, this list is almost as important as that other one. In looking back at my Top 10 list, my original take that 2015 was a slightly below average anime year seems to hold true. Apart from Death Parade – which while not my all-time best […] Read more
What’s last shall be first – and truthfully, I never really doubted what series that would be. #1 – Death Parade The truth is, I knew as soon as I watched Death Parade that if it wasn’t going to take the top spot for 2015, something very special was going […] Read more
Another of the many faces of “Gundam” reveals itself in Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is definitely Gundam for serious Gundam fans, but that doesn’t mean everyone else can’t enjoy it too. Clocking it at a snappy 15 minutes, this web animation is quite engaging in its simple and straightforward brutality. Accompanied by […] Read more
Is there such a thing as the 13-episode rule? It seems funny to think you’d still be unsure of what to make of a series when it’s half-over (especially if it’s a multi-cour) but that’s exactly where I am with Tekketsu no Orphans. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I almost […] Read more
Concrete Revolutio doesn’t seem to be the anime we wanted, but it might just be the anime we needed. I’ve had the increasing sense while watching Concrete Revolutio – and never more so than this week – that this is an anime that will be regarded as a classic say, […] Read more
That was everything I hoped it would be, and more. There’s only one thing wrong with a series finale as great as “Lord of the Takanashi”. Namely, it was so good that it makes the pain of knowing it was the finale that much more acute. if “always leave them […] Read more
For the record, 39 cm equals 15.35 inches. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. The first cour of the second season of anime’s most lavishly produced and slickest sports anime comes to an end in exactly the way you’d expect, with a highly entertaining if ultimately predictable episode. […] Read more