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
I’m not sure if Shin Sekai Yori was in what I would call a slump – more like “slightly less great” for a couple of episodes – but it was fully back on-track for this one. Damn it, how does SSY keep making me think the episodes are 5 minutes […] Read more
I know a government conspiracy couldn’t be too far off… It’s looking like a pretty darn good season on NoitaminA after all. Psycho-Pass is rounding into form nicely, and I’ve loved Robotics;Notes right from the beginning. The thing about this show is that even when things get heavy (and the destruction of the solar […] Read more
If Minority Report Mated with UN-GO and gave birth to Urobuchi Gen, Psycho-Pass would be pretty close to the result. Fundamentally, I think Psycho-Pass comes down to this: if you think a sci-fi film noir written by Gen and animated by Production I.G. is likely to be interesting, you’re going […] Read more
There’s just nothing like real artisan lemur cheese. This was a pretty lighthearted and simple edition of Shirokuma this week, with two stories that definitely placed the comedy first. We had a sort of slightly off-kilter take on “The Secret Garden”, except that everything in this secret garden is edible […] Read more
Somewhat tardy, here’s the Fall 2012 check-in – and a pretty solid season it is, on the whole. My read on Fall 2012 going in was that it was deep in potentially good shows, while lacking candidates for real greatness. On balance I’d say that expectation has largely been met […] Read more
Kamisama Hajimemashita might not be the best series of the Fall, but it just might be the most consistent. Magi – 05 Another very solid episode for Magi this week, as Aladdin’s storyline continues to be the most interesting element in the series. As expected, Baba-sama case off her Earthly […] Read more
Make no mistake about it – the “other” HCLI squad takes a back-seat to no one when it comes to kicking serious tail. Kasper Hekmatyar was much more of an off-screen presence than on in the first season of Jormungand (though his urinal confrontation with Jonah was certainly a memorable […] Read more
The inevitable triangle seems finally to be upon us, and so far I’m not in love with where it seems to be taking Sakurasou. I’ve had the nagging feeling for a while that Sakurasou was a series torn between two impulses – one, to be a somewhat radical and certainly unusual […] Read more