Dammit Watanabe, why do you insist on making it look so easy? This was an amazingly simple episode of Sakamichi no Apollon, really. Basically four main scenes, plus a few supporting ones, spread out over the winter holidays as Kyushu is covered by a light blanket of snow. I can […] Read more
Though the plot is really heating up, I can already see Tsuritama returning squarely to its roots for the final arc. I’m hard-pressed to think of a show that’s been as consistent as this one has. Though there have certainly been stylistic changes, the overall quality has been remarkably stable […] Read more
Short intestines? Kawaii!! A little change of pace this week, with the entire episode taken up by one chapter – “Mr. Handa’s Group Blind Date” (apart from a tiny segment about pot stickers at the beginning). Actually, the pot sticker mini and the blind date chapter did have a common […] Read more
What is first shall be… First. What – is it summer already? OP: “Pride” by Nothing’s Carved in Stone Seems like every anime season lately has a series that debuts a month before the rest of them. This time around, it’s Kingdom, from Studio Pierrot. There are several reasons this […] Read more
Parents – don’t swing your kids by the arms like that, it’s very bad for them. The more you know. Well, they left it in for a change – Jonah’s voice-over narration that is. This was one of his more critical internal monologues, sort of the acid test of whether […] Read more
The most unassuming of the Triplets reveals his true colors at last… We’ve definitely seen two of the Furuya Brothers carve out their own identity already. Kouta is a sullen genius, the spoiled diva. Ryuuji is the smiling front man for the group, the voice of “reason” such as it […] Read more
For once, I’m glad I wasn’t invited. Unfortunately, this is one of those eps where the extreme compression ratio of this adaptation becomes clear. While I got the basic gist of what was happening, there were certain elements that never quite clicked, and left me a little unsure as to […] Read more
Come on Girls, just admit it – you’d do the same thing, if given half a chance… Mobile Suit Gundam AGE – 34 The moment we’ve all been waiting for is upon us – Asemu (Toriumi Kousuke) is indeed back, but you can call him “Captain Ash”. He’s leading a […] Read more
“Valar Morghulis” It’s tough to face a season finale of Game of Thrones, no doubt about it. Ten episodes simply isn’t enough – as soon as I feel my appetite is whet, it’s time for another ten-month break. Brutal, I tells ya – and I already know what’s going to happen (apart […] Read more
Why do I get the feeling that every Hyou-ka planning meeting starts with “You know what would look really cool?” So help me, I’ve really come to like this show a lot, but it’s devilishly hard to blog about. It’s hard to even say why I like it, apart from […] Read more