Well, raise your hand if you didn’t know how that was going to turn out. While it was always pretty obvious how the immediate crisis in this arc would ultimately be resolved, Ushio and Tora still did a pretty great job (as usual) getting us there. It does get a […] Read more
Fall 2015 is notably light on surprises, for better and for worse. I had a pretty good idea of what shows figured to be good coming into the season – and judging by the poll, so did you. I haven’t been taken aback by much of anything so far this […] Read more
The further Subete ga F ni Naru goes down the rabbit hole, the better I like it. The more anime I watch – especially given the broader creative trends in the medium – the more I realize that strangeness is a good thing in and of itself. That’s not to […] Read more
For Eijun fans, this week’s Diamond no Ace is all about the long game… Read more
Things settle down with a more typical Haikyuu episode this week. Read more
When you get down to it, this series is some pretty dark stuff. If nothing else (and in truth, there actually is a lot else) Osomatsu-san is making me very curious about the original – it can’t be this out there, can it? This show is a black comedy to […] Read more
OPM delivers the Christmas ballet a few months early this year… One Punch Man continues to be one of the most fun shows of the season, though I keep searching for that other layer I thought I was picking up in the manga chapters I read. I see it sometimes, […] Read more
Call her by whatever name you like, but Yachi has certainly brought some interesting changes to Haikyuu – and this is not a series that’s big on change. Read more
It’s always the quiet ones you have to watch out for. In Gundam, anyway. Iron-Blooded Orphans is certainly shaping up as an interesting show, albeit one with some discernible flaws (and I’m not talking about the quite significant drop in animation quality this week). The first four episodes have generally […] Read more
This series is the bandeja paisa of the fall season. I’m coming around on Concrete Revolutio, which in its baffling way is proving to be a very interesting series. It’s a mess, but I think intentionally so. Ghosts, youkai, aliens, mecha, cyborgs – you name it and it’s here. It […] Read more