Sakurasou sits squarely at the intersection of several genres, and stubbornly refuses to fit in any of them. Make no mistake about it, Sakurasou is a pretty interesting series. As far as I know the novelist Kamoshida Hajime has never written anything else, and you have a first-time director working […] Read more
The best thing about the shoujo offerings as a group this season is that each of them is quite distinct from the others. I don’t really have much to say about this week’s episode of Tonari, even though I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was pretty much a build-up […] Read more
Girls are scary. There’s a funny sort of reversal happening with Sukkite Iinayo. Usually you have fans of the source material decrying the shortcomings of the adaptation, and how it never manages to capture the magic of the original. Here, there are seemingly endless “Yeah, the anime seems really good […] Read more
I’m not sure if this constitutes an attempt to make Iwase likeable, but if so, it didn’t work for me. The struggle for success in the world of manga is so constant that sometimes I get tired just from watching Bakuman. I know that’s a realistic picture and that only […] Read more
Too many shows, too little time… Btooom! – 03 Btooom! is preposterous, but in an entertaining way. It’s one of those shows where a lot of suspension of disbelief is necessary, because the plot is effectively an elaborate 2 AM bar conversation between a bunch of smart geeks with too […] Read more
The tension level jumped quite a number of notches this week, that’s for sure. If anything, this week’s episode was about confronting the elephants in the room that Space Brothers has been avoiding to some extent up to now. In the first instance, the nerves of the family members as […] Read more
Three episodes in Little Busters! seems incapable of being less than likeable, but this week’s episode had something of the feel of a placeholder. I suppose it’s unavoidable to compare LB to its predecessors in adaptation from Key, especially Kanon (which I loved) and Clannad (which I liked). I’ve mentioned […] Read more
Finally, someone comes along who can give the Phantom Troupe as good as they get. There was an awful lot happening in this ep of H x H – as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago there are several different threads in the story at the moment any one […] Read more
I’m running out of ways to say how great this show is, so back to the basics – this show is really, really great. There’s no denying that watching a good anime is an enjoyable experience, but it’s the occasional great ones that really make the experience of being a […] Read more