“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
No question about it – in terms of charm and originality, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is the most interesting shoujo romance to come along in quite some time. There are a lot of reasons why I find this show so appealing, starting with the animation and the really creative and even […] Read more
Who would have thought back in Season One that we’d be hearing complaints about Bakuman moving too fast… I happened to glance at one of the Bakuman discussion boards, something I try not to do before I’ve watched the new episode of a series, so I knew there were quite a few […] Read more
I guess it can’t be a shoujo romance without a serious love rival to deal with. Enter Megu, Kitagawa Megumi (Kotobuki Minako) who may be the designated villain of the piece or a well-meaning distraction on the romantic journey of out two leads. Megu is a model, quite popular and […] Read more
Any week that marks the return of Evangeline Yammamoto is off to a good start. Btooom! – 06 Btooom is a classic dilemma – I really want to dislike it, but I’m fairly engrossed every time I watch it (when I’m not just grossed, anyway). It’s a well-made action thriller, […] Read more
Wow – that conclusion sure arrived a lot faster than I expected. As with just about everything else with Little Busters!, I’m very much of two minds about this episode, and the entire Komari arc (both episodes of it). On the one hand I can very much feel myself being […] Read more
With this many iconic characters running around, the hard part with H x H sometimes is figuring out who the star of the episode was. As always with this series, it’s a mark of its greatness that it can offer an episode with no action in the middle of an […] Read more
Another week, another gem. Ho, hum. One of the things that stands out about Space Brothers is the attention to detail – not in the animation (I love the space shots but the backgrounds do get a little fuzzy in four-cour anime with limited Blu-ray sales) but in the writing. […] Read more
There are few shows doing idiocy as well as Chuunibyou, and there’s definitely something to be said for that. It occurs to me that this show would get a lot more interesting if it were revealed that Rikka (or even Yuuta or, God forbid, Dekomori) actually had magical powers. I […] Read more