The intensity in those pods is starting to rival Hunter Exam levels… Well, not really. Still – it is getting pretty hairy in there. I can’t help but wonder at the total exclusion of Team C from the last few episodes – it’s possible that they’ve been spared Hoshika-san’s torture […] Read more
One of the hardest things to do as an anime blogger is to separate preconception from genuine criticism. There are definitely times when I’m glad I don’t know the source material for an anime, and SAO is one of them. Just to reiterate, I’m watching this series completely unencumbered – […] Read more
At long last Hunter X Hunter arrives in York Shin, and I suspect we’re going to be here for a while. I don’t know if this episode marks the “official” beginning of the York Shin Arc, but it certainly seems to be a beginning and an ending. Especially coming on […] Read more
What’s this – an actual cliffhanger in Shouwa Monogatari? No matter how you slice it, Shouwa Monogatari always seems to come down to the same thing – Yuuzou-san terrorizing the family and his wife making excuses for him. It just so happens that this time Yuuko-chan does something legitimately stupid […] Read more
My reaction here is very simple – that was a truly massive improvement over the first episode. Before anyone accuses me of flip-flopping, let me reference what I said last week: It may be that as we get to know the characters better and start to explore the phenomenon Kokoro […] Read more
I’m surprised to hear myself say this, but by the end of this episode of Koichoco I found I was rather enjoying it. Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate – 02 Let’s have no illusions, this is pretty formulaic stuff – though by their very nature VNs are formulaic, so that’s […] Read more
Gonna need the thesaurus to try and do justice to how amazing this episode was. I wasn’t sure if AO could possibly have an encore that would live up to the expectations created by the blockbuster ending of last week’s episode. But it did – amazingly it exceeded the sky-high expectations and […] Read more
“Afraid of Strangers” Romance flag officially planted. I think it’s a pretty safe bet after chapter 3 that Adachi-sensei is going down the “Miyuki” path here, and setting up a potential relationship between step-siblings Touma and Otomi. As totoum said after the last chapter, Adachi was “30 years ahead of […] Read more
Hippocratic Oath of comedy threshold met. I can definitely say after two episodes that Binbougami Ga! has a winning comedic formula. It’s made me laugh consistently through two eps by totally buying into the stupidity of the premise and embracing its inner idiocy. You’ve also got two very solid seiyuu […] Read more
This is a funny sort of show about a funny sort of romance, but so far it’s working for me. My reaction after two episodes of Natsuyuki Rendezvous is exactly the same as it was after the first. There’s really nothing spectacular happening here, but the series is slowly creeping […] Read more