Shirokuma Cafe doesn’t need to worry about its bad pun throne. Looks like next week could be a big one for Space Brothers, one of those watershed episodes the series builds up to every cour or so. We may see Hibito at last confess the truth to Mutta about his […] Read more
How can you not like an anime where the hero spends part of the finale in an “All Your Base are Belong to Us” T-shirt? I’m not going to pretend for a moment that Outbreak Company was especially brilliant or profound, but given that I covered a few episodes and […] Read more
The worst thing about any great series is obvious – that it ends. Kyousougiga hasn’t been a conventional anime series in any way, shape or form since the very beginning – not in terms of medium, narrative structure, themes or sheer quality – so it’s no surprise that the ending […] Read more
Another impressive episode of Kakumeiki Valvrave, but boy – they’ve sure left themselves a lot to do in just a week. There are myriad timeless expressions that fit the master plan L-Elf came up with to strike back at the rotten core of Dorssia. Hoist by their petard, turnabout is […] Read more
I’m kind of running out of things to say about Samumenco, and that’s never a good sign. NoitaminA is going into its normal winter hibernation and Samurai Flamenco will be back on the 9th of January, but I’m not so sure I’ll be back with it. For all the on-screen […] Read more
Okada-sensei, you’ve really got it working here – for the love of Goc, please don’t screw it up. It’s always a little scary putting yourself in the hands of Okada Mari, especially on an original series, especially a two-cour. She’s a literary seductress, so alluring and able to draw you […] Read more
Don’t take this the wrong way, but this break couldn’t have come at a better time for Golden Time. GT is taking a two-week break for the holidays, and while that normally annoys me, in this case I think it’s a good thing. I confess, while I’m still very much […] Read more
If great characters make a story, then any set in this mythology has a massive head start. OP: “Anata no Eranda Kono Toki wo (あなたの選んだこの時を)” by Kanako Ito Fuka Ryouiki no Deja vu is neither indispensable to the Steins;Gate franchise, or a great story in its own right. That said, […] Read more
Boy, talk about a mood shift… It seems a bit odd to watch the “Sekai no Saitou” OVA right after the 11th episode of Refrain, but that’s just the way the timing worked out. You could hardly draw up two episodes that more effectively highlight this series in its polar […] Read more
An interesting book, but I thought the ending was a bit abrupt. As OVAs go, this was a pretty good one. It was plot-relevant for starters, which is rare-enough, though the fact that Attack on Titan is an ongoing series has something to do with that. It was also competently […] Read more