If you care to join me on the fence with this one, I’ll happily slide over. I’m certainly not seeing brilliance in Hitsugi no Chaika after two episodes, but it is a pretty interesting series. This is not a glamour production for BONES – it seems pretty clear that it […] Read more
“Idiot”, my ass… I’m not patient or fastidious enough to regularly track who the animation directors for specific episodes of Hunter X Hunter are, but I’m assuming they brought out one of the big guns – Mori Tomoko or Abiru Takahiro, maybe – for this one, and likely next week’s […] Read more
This sounds like a job for “Hime, Hime!” I’ve been trying to think of another time when the anime landscape for sports manga fans has been like this. Yowapeda, Ace of Diamond, Baby Steps, Ping Pong, Haikyuu – five manga adaptations, five different sports, five radically different narrative styles, all […] Read more
Doskoi! Tonari no Seki-kun – 15 I guess it’s pretty much official now that the reports of TV Seki-kun’s demise were incorrect, as it’s now aired two weeks in a row as scheduled this season. I won’t be foolish enough to try and predict what’s going to happen with the […] Read more
I’m not sure what to make of Gokukoku no Brynhildr yet, but I am sure I’m enjoying it so far. It seems like an odd way to describe a series that shows us what we’ve seen from this one already, but the word I most want to describe Gokukoku no […] Read more
In my continuing belief that there’s a Seinfeld quite for every situation, Isshuukan Friends is like gossamer – and you don’t dissect gossamer. For the second time in as many weeks I’m going to reference Sekai Soredemo wa Utsukushii in talking about this series. It’s not as though the two […] Read more
“The Lion and the Rose” I could pretty much just go with “Karma’s a bitch” and I think this episode would be pretty well covered. Needless to say, I fully expect you to have seen the events of this ep before you read this, I’ll be dispensing TV spoilers freely […] Read more
Pardon me as I just breathe a little sigh of relief, even as I don’t allow myself to relax yet. Let me make one thing perfectly clear: to paraphrase Roger Ebert, I love Baby Steps. Love, love. love, love, love Baby Steps. Clear enough, I hope. I make no pretense […] Read more
OK, exclamation points just in the title line only. We’re two episodes in, and so far the Haikyuu adaptation is doing pretty much everything textbook perfect. I’m hard-pressed to believe the only thing Mitsunaka Susumu has directed before this was Cuticle Detective Inaba – a mediocre series if ever one […] Read more
To thine own whack be true, BONES… If there were ever a show that was emblematic of the studio that produces it, Captain Earth is it. Some of the top tier studios – Production I.G. is a good example – don’t have a signature identity, per se. They produce all […] Read more