Much more so than this first time around, Noragami has hit the ground running. Not much time to write, but I thought this week’s episode of Noragami Aragoto was so good that it’d be a shame not to at least check in. The Bishamon Arc is highly-regarded by fans of […] Read more
This is another one of those times when predictability is a good thing. Once again I’m compelled to say: I’m just not sure you can do traditional shounen any better than this. It’s not all that subtle, maybe a little sexist in a benign sort of way, loud and brash […] Read more
Greetings from Bogota! So it turns out the internet at this hotel is damn good and the co-workers and myself didn’t paint the town too dark a shade of red, so I thought I’d check in with a very brief (anything you get from me this week is likely to […] Read more
So – planes have wi-fi now. That’s kinda cool. Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru – 02 I haven’t quite figured out what I feel about Sakurako-san no Ashimoto yet. It’s a pretty familiar anime premise on paper, but an odd mix of elements in practice. There’s that […] Read more
What’s better than a little Hinata? How about a little She-nata? Read more
Context is important, but humor can be universal. It’s funny the things that strike a chord with you in watching anime, and how that impacts the experience of watching it. I have very little knowledge of the original Osomatsu-kun, as I said last week – and one of the remarkable […] Read more
Am I crazy, or did that military HQ have the Eye of Sauron on top of it? Comet Lucifer – 02 I was pretty close to bailing on Comet Lucifer for a while, but by the second half of this episode I found myself sort of enjoying it. I’m a […] Read more
On thing about Gundam – whatever the series itself brings to the table, you can get an awful lot of entertainment value from the names. OP Sequence: The elephant in the room with Iron-Blooded Orphans is and always has been the same: how will Okada Mari’s dominant-gene vision mesh with […] Read more
Let the parade of Hunter X Hunter graduates begin! The second episode of One Punch Man was a bit more conventionally action-driven than the first, but make no mistake – it’s still the humor that stands out with this series. It’s a black comedy for sure, and there’s not as […] Read more
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Yes and no – but this one was already pretty fond. It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to write about Kekkai Sensen – just a little over three months, in fact. And that’s too long, given the circumstances behind this […] Read more