For a series without special effects or combat or any supernatural powers whatsoever, Bakuman can be incredibly intense sometimes. I have a lot of thoughts as I reflect back on this episode, starting with this one: I really want to know if the Nanaime story is based on a real […] Read more
I’ve never seen an anime romance quite like this one – and I mean that entirely in a good way. As much as any show this year, Tonari no Kabutsu-kun is the one I’m disappointed to see ending when it is. If ever a show had so much more story […] Read more
Enter Nishizono Mio (formally, anyway), and she’s quite different than the other cast members we’ve met so far. You’ll have to forgive the brevity of this post. In addition to this being finals week at my language school (Kanji alone would take more study time than I spend awake on […] Read more
This week’s Hunter X Hunter had me wrestling with a dilemma of sorts. It’s fair to say that I was looking forward to this ep as much as any anime episode all year, but fate intervened and left me a twisted, wraith-like creature with a bout of food poisoning. So […] Read more
The wait continues… To be honest, I was very tempted to watch the preview first this week, as it was the part of the episode I was most looking-forward to. I went in a little peeved at the way the Mutta storyline is being teased and delayed, which feels cheap […] Read more
Trying to encapsulate an episode like that was always going to be tough, even under ideal circumstances. Shin Sekai Yori is a show that begs serious analysis, but at the moment I just don’t think I’m capable of it. There’s something vaguely surreal about watching such a complex and unsettling […] Read more
After a long, long night, here’s my verdict on food poisoning: I’d give it a pass. Nowhere near as fun as you think. The “before/after” sequence above does a pretty good job showing my physical state over the last two days. After a sleepless night spent repeatedly in prayer to […] Read more
Saddest looking snake ever. I suppose it says something for the place Kamisama Kiss holds in my regard that I decided to make this the episode I’d try and blog to get myself kick-started during my bout with constitutional misery. I went to my inbox and while shows the H […] Read more
That was a truly impressive display of film-making on all fronts. There’s no denying it – with Psycho-Pass, Urobuchi Gen is once again teasing us with the potential for true greatness. This show is just getting better and better as it segues from a “crime of the week” format into a truly […] Read more
Robotics;Notes offers up a fine example of the dramatic art of the anti-climax. Among the many things I appreciate about R;N is that is fully acknowledges that no matter what else is happening in the world, the small things in our lives still dominate our thoughts and feelings. There’s certainly […] Read more