A nice appetizer, Taifuuu no Noruda really makes you long for the missing main course. When I first saw the promo art for this theatrical feature from the relatively obscure Studio Colorado, I was pretty excited. I mean, it was beautiful (the subsequent trailers even more so), it had a […] Read more
If Akagami no Shirayukihime is great at making the normal seem exceptional, I think Working is great at making the exceptional seem normal. Stepping back and really looking at it, I think it’s hard not to be impressed with the third season of Working. It’s managed to raise the stakes […] Read more
In the end Joukamachi no Dandelion didn’t offer up too many surprises, but that’s by no means strictly a bad thing. You know, expectations are merely prejudices when you strip away all the artifice. Did Joukamachi no Dandelion live up to mine? Did it surpass them? It doesn’t really matter […] Read more
My appreciation for this series – and what MAPPA is doing with it – only grows over time. The thing about Ushio to Tora is this – it’s just really, really good. It’s not a fancy series and it doesn’t require any fancy analysis to explain why it’s so good […] Read more
It’s never been easy being a Chihayafuru fan. It’s not news by any means, but it’s really struck me of late just much harder it is to be patient with manga than anime. I recognize the importance of what Suetsugu-sensei is doing with arcs like the current one, but when […] Read more
Top-quality ramen at ¥100 for a soul? That’s actually not a bad deal. In case you haven’t heard, the “major announcement” for Kyoukai no Rinne turned out to be what most of us were hoping it would – a second season. That will premiere in Spring of 2016 with the […] Read more
Just who is the female lead here, anyway? Nagisa is making a pretty strong case… Read more
Do you get it now, Kataoka? That’s why you shouldn’t bunt all the damn time. Diamond no Ace S2 #24 is here… Read more
Seeing it made to look so easy tends to make us forget how hard it actually is. I think it’s best to look at last week’s Akagami no Shirayukihime as if the last two minutes were all that really mattered, both because the rest of it was so forgettable and […] Read more
Flushing Meadows and the Kanto Junior aren’t the only places where it’s Showdown Sunday… Arslan Senki had a resolutely discernible strategy for this episode – simplify. There’s been a lot of preamble, politics and permutations building up to this point, but that was pretty much all stripped away this week, […] Read more