Once again, let’s start this dance… The parade of the new starts with something old – or at least, something new based on something really old. That would be Tezuka Osamu’s Black Jack, the story of a patchwork quilt of a rogue surgeon named Hazama Kuroo, which Tezuka began in […] Read more
What it comes to bang for your entertainment buck, Usio to Tora is hard to beat. Another stellar episode of UshiTora this week, maybe the most consistent series of the Summer season. This show is simply a marvel of efficiency, rarely wasting a moment of screen time without appearing (unless […] Read more
OVAs like this are the very epitome of mixed emotions. This certainly isn’t the last time this year I’ll be writing about Akatsuki no Yona, a series I’ve come to love unreservedly. But it may be the last time I’ll be writing about new anime for the franchise, which is […] Read more
This week, Diamond no Ace presents possibly the most halfhearted backstory ever. It’s like they knew it was a lost cause. Read more
The last finale of the season (not counting Manglobe, apparently) comes from one of its most underrated simple pleasures. Read more
So long to an incredibly fun show – but hopefully not goodbye. Read more
Memo to Manglobe: Was that so damn hard? It’s finale weekend in anime (a few frontrunners beat the rush last week, but you get my point), and it’s been possibly the strangest I can remember. Working gave us an ending that wasn’t an ending and made us ecstatic about it, […] Read more
See Manglobe, this is why people get pissed off at you right here. I hardly know where to begin talking about that episode, to be honest. The first 20 minutes were great, but that’s like saying the 20’s were a great decade except for the whole Great Depression thing at […] Read more
My one word reaction to how that finished: Uwah! Well now, it’s not too often in anime that I’m as surprised – and pleasantly too – as I was by the final few moments of Working!!!. About how the series would be ending I didn’t know much, except that I […] Read more
This is one of those series that gives predictability a good name. In a week full of anime goodbyes – or at least “so longs” – it’s nice to talk about a show that’s not going anywhere. We’ll have a pause after this coming season before the third cour airs, […] Read more