Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, but mine was already pretty fond of this series before the latest information blackout. I’ll be honest – I’d already watched these episodes (and the next two) raw a while ago. So as a result I had a pretty good idea of […] Read more
Oklahoma isn’t the only place where the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye. Sakurasou is another series that probably had one more week to make up my mind for me one way or the other – and darned if it didn’t do a pretty good job of it. […] Read more
Since this is the last time I’m going to be able to say it about a TV episode, I’m going to repeat myself one more time – I love Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. Brains Base just delivers. They deliver with original series, they deliver with adaptations, and they even deliver with […] Read more
Are those the unmistakable strains of magical realism I hear coming from the background? Well, it’s arrived at last – a “serious” episode, and the start of another character arc. Interestingly enough this was actually quite a funny episode in addition to that – arguably the most well-balanced and one […] Read more
It’s getting close to decision-time with Magi. I don’t know if Magi is taking an inter-seasonal break like most series, but it certainly didn’t go out of it’s way to generate a logical stopping point for the close of its first cour. We’re very much right in the middle of […] Read more
Of all people, it was Furuya-kun who best summed up this episode of Space Brothers. I was wondering how Uchuu Kyoudai could possibly follow up the emotional crescendo of last week’s episode, which hit me like a freight train. I should know by now not to doubt, because between the […] Read more
Seriously – did anyone doubt for a second that Gon would put out “Rock”? 60 episodes is something of a milestone for any anime, and as I marvel at yet another stellar episode it makes me inclined to reflect back over the last five cours. It’s frankly pretty amazing how […] Read more
All in all Madhouse does a pretty good job here, delivering a non-ending that serves the purpose with few surprises. Certainly, there were multiple challenges facing the anime staff in crafting this episode. Not only is this a one-cour anime adapting a manga that covers nine volumes, but it’s an […] Read more
Give Sukitte some credit for this: it never misses its cues. My feelings about Megu-tan as summarized in last week’s post: I don’t wish her any ill, but I just don’t care about her very much and and her likely tearful redemption next week seems like an anti-climactic way to […] Read more
In some ways, this may just be the hardest blog post I’ve ever had to write. I’m really walking on eggshells with this one. It’s a bit of a quandary trying to figure out what I can and can’t say, because it’s hard to separate what I know because I […] Read more