I’m resigned to the fact that this series will never be recognized as the classic it was, but that doesn’t diminish its greatness one bit. Please don’t mistake the fact that I’m not doing a separate series finale and series review post for Nazo no Kanojo X as any indication […] Read more
That was certainly… an ending. I’ll give a lot of credit to TMS for the work they did on this updating of the Lupin III franchise. The soundtrack (produced by Watanabe Shinichiro) was superb, and the visuals were quite unlike anything I’ve seen in the last couple of years. But […] Read more
If one were to guess a trend for the new season based on this weekend’s premières, it’d have to be “Viva Italia”. The Spanish are hoping, I’m sure, that it doesn’t carry over into football. OP: “Magenta Another Sky” by Hitomi Harada I would say that I liked this premiere […] Read more
Let’s all dance with Mutta wigs! OP2: “Eureka” by Sukima Switch After endless and irritating viewer references to Mutta as “middle-aged”, we finally have a real middle-aged man to worry about as Fukuda takes center stage in episode 14. He’s been an interesting figure dancing around the edges of the […] Read more
It’d be hard to imagine two episodes more different than this one and last week’s Hunter X Hunter, but the series never misses a beat. In some ways, this episode felt almost like a reward for both the characters and audience – a chance to sit back and relax after […] Read more
If any premise ever screamed out “Light novel!” it’s this one. I enjoyed the first episode of Campione!, though my initial impression is that this a pretty generic setup. I don’t necessarily consider “generic” a negative term, as long as a series is well executed and based on initial evidence, […] Read more
With this post, at last we’re caught up with Ginga e Kickoff… It’s nice to see Ginga getting some traction among the fan community, in Japan anyway. There was the Sankakau poll that had it at #19 in the “Series You’re Wasting Your Life by Not Watching” poll. Doujins are […] Read more
Under the circumstances Niko could have come up with a more sensitive gift than that – but it’s the thought that counts, I guess. Episode 12 of Accel World was quite entertaining, but there really isn’t a whole lot to say about it that it didn’t say for itself. It […] Read more
If you want intrigue and mystery, this episode of AO should be your one-stop shopping for the week. I’ve enjoyed the world-building episodes of the last several weeks (and I’ll gladly fight the legions who disagree with me), but I was strongly inclined to believe we were about to see a […] Read more
As much as Sankarea has stymied my attempts to understand it at every turn, it can be no surprise that it ended in a stubbornly mysterious manner. Sankarea is definitely a series that proved the old “don’t judge a book by its cover” adage (and MGX is certainly another). With […] Read more