Well then – let the apoplexy begin. If you’re going to do a timeskip, I guess you may as well go all-out and completely blow preconceptions out of the water as Shin Sekai Yori did. Novel readers obviously had an idea of what was coming, and some of us who […] Read more
So this was the week Chuunibyou finally crossed the unseen horizon and went serious. And all in all, it did a pretty darn good job of it. When a comedy goes serious, you can look at it two ways. You can judge it by the vehicle it chooses for the […] Read more
The world of Psycho-Pass continues to get darker, stranger and more interesting every week. Considering the somewhat reflective way in which this episode started, it certainly managed to pack an awful lot into its 22 minutes. It ended up being one of the creepiest episodes yet, and also one of […] Read more
Robotics;Notes is still taking its time getting down to the business of planetary destruction, but that’s just fine with me. It’s not every show that would have the balls to introduce an “Oh by the way, the solar system is about to be destroyed” plot twist one week, then basically […] Read more
In the annals of underrated anime this series surely comes near the top of the list, and an episode like this one goes a long way towards proving that. I think if you’re a fan of Shirokuma Café this ep would have pretty much everything you’re looking for in the […] Read more
I can’t imagine there were a whole lot of readers or viewers who anticipated the way this arc was going to end. In many ways, I feel as if “Castle of Lies” is a throwback to the first season of Jormungand. This is a story that never makes it too […] Read more
These are certainly two interesting series, though the one with only one cour to work with is revealing its charms with considerably more urgency than the one that figures to be a fixture for a while. Magi – 06 Another perfectly competent and well-produced edition of Magi this week, though […] Read more
You can consider this an unpaid commercial for the best series almost none of you are watching. I’m going to ask the LiA readers to bear with me for a bit, because I’ve been thinking for a while of using the bully pulpit of RC for a little preaching about Ginga e […] Read more
“They’re So Noisy” No question about it, an Adachi baseball manga in a monthly magazine is a bit of a torture. Mix, as best I can describe it, continues apace. It’s excellent – vintage Adachi, and he’s clearly invigorated being back on his most familiar ground. But we’re no closer […] Read more
That episode didn’t do much to clarify my uncertainty over what sort of series Sakurasou intends to be over the next few months. I might be swimming upstream on this, but the Nanami arc felt like a step backwards to me. It’s not so much that the last couple of […] Read more