It’s interesting that the two alliterative school life series both succeeded this weekend with episodes that were totally different, but quite true to the nature of what each show is. Last week did a nice job of setting up the conclusion of Wakana’s arc, and honestly, I really couldn’t have […] Read more
Having already demonstrated its brilliance at slapstick and satire, Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita this weeks conclusively proves that it can do emotional depth, too. There’s just so much more going on in Jinrui right now than anything else airing that at times, it can almost feel like a lot of […] Read more
How fitting that today’s episode of Space Brothers should be so focused on curiosity. Looking back over the first 19 episodes of this series, I’d have to say this episode was one of my favorites, despite the fact that not much really happened. It’s not like we’ve been counting the days till […] Read more
Well, that had to be the shortest H x H pre-open ever. But I guess it said everything that needed to be said. If there’s a danger with Blogging this show, it’s becoming repetitive. Not H x H, but the blog posts – because there’s only so many different ways […] Read more
At last the main relationship in Sword Art Online takes center stage. SAO has a funny sort of narrative style to it – the anime anyway – where it seems as if things keep happening whether we’re watching or not, and we just happen to check in on them from […] Read more
Kokoro Connect makes a habit of showing us both the risks and rewards of creative ambition. This week, thankfully, the balance was tipped heavily in favor of the latter. I consider last week’s episode quite a stumble, but KK definitely regained its footing this time, and the reason is that […] Read more
I’m kind of starting to get why AW fans are a bit ragey about this arc – although I wonder if my reasons might be a little different. It’s hard for me to put my finger on why this arc irritates me so much sometimes, apart from the revoltingly weepy […] Read more
Yes, there’s more… I won’t rehash all the old discussions about where Guilty Crown came up short as a series. It seems like you’d be hard-pressed to think of a series that garnered more volume of commentary with less affection than GC, so I’m happy to leave that in the […] Read more
Binbougami ga! is slowly turning into something I wasn’t expecting after the first couple of episodes. I’m not going to go so far as to call this show “deep”, but I’ve probably been a little too guilty of labeling it as another Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. While it has slipped into the […] Read more
Watching Natsuyuki Rendezvous had the same effect that watching Hazuki use Atsushi’s plates & utensils does – it makes me happy and sad. As I watched the first five episodes of this series, I’ve increasingly felt that the real main character wasn’t Hazuki, or even Rokka. It’s the ghost that’s the main […] Read more