Don’t lie – I know most of you were singing it in the shower the last time you heard it in an episode… Yowapeda is back in a much more mischievous and balanced mode, with the non-stop intensity of the training camp behind us. Plotquakes aside that was a very […] Read more
My God – it’s full of stars… Space Dandy is managing to do something pretty rare in anime, and that’s not repeat itself. Part of that comes from the HEIII/reset button format (though Meow actually snuck a little continuity into the mix this week just for a nano) but it […] Read more
Another week, another rock-solid episode of Noragami. You know the drill – every week Noragami just delivers the goods. More than any new show this season this is the one that’s managed to evade the usual peaks and valleys – in fact, I’d go so far as to say the […] Read more
I’d recognize that voice anywhere… It’s all about separating the wheat from the chaff on this week’s Daiya no A. Everything in Japanese high school baseball is about getting to Summer Koushien at any cost (it’s probably the most popular single sporting event in Japan, including the Olympics and World […] Read more
Thank goodness for Eddie Jay. Interesting news this week – a new series (Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo, so technically a new old series) will be taking over Uchuu Kyoudai’s timeslot in April. There’s been no announcement that Space Brothers will be ending, but a timeslot change seems unlikely at this […] Read more
Any day with Natsume Yuujinchou in it is a good day. It’s an auspicious winter indeed that brings us new Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi both, and we’ve had two Natsume OVAs and a Mushishi TV special in the span of about a month. Even better was the announcement that Mushishi […] Read more
There are all sorts of lessons in this episode – for characters, writers and producers alike. This was a big episode for Gin no Saji in many ways, and it came with a lot of expectations as a result. I would argue that they were largely met, mainly because the […] Read more
That’s certainly a new meaning of the word “asshat”. Winter 2014 is shaping up as the worst season in the Blu-ray era for anime sales (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though that’s a topic for a full post). But not for all of them – 3 of the top […] Read more
Dammit, my world just doesn’t make sense any more. This is what Nagi no Asukara has reduced me to – I’m happy to see Yoshino Hiroyuki’s name attached to an episode. That just should never happen, but so it is here – down is up, right is left, and Yoshino […] Read more
That really hit the spot. The timing for watching the Yowapeda “Special Ride” OVA was perfect – which is odd, considering it was originally released (though never subbed) some months before the anime began. It works much better now, not least because it’s set in the days after the Souhoku […] Read more