“Blackwater” I suppose if you were that sort of person that does such things, you could say this was Game of Thrones’ “Helm’s Deep moment” – the long-awaited collision of Kings that the entire series has been building up to for two seasons. There’s a major different of course, in that this […] Read more
One thing I feel confident of is that mangaka will never run out of esoteric explanations for the weird stuff that happens in sports manga. OK, raise your hand if you’ve heard of “nanba walking”. OK, now put it down – I actually don’t want to hear how smart you […] Read more
What in the world did I just watch? It’s been a frantic day and I’m tired and all, but boy – that was about as content-free an episode of any anime as I’ve seen for a while. I feel even better about comparing this series to “Seinfeld” a few weeks back, because the […] Read more
There are seasons where Space Brothers would be in the running for the #1 spot on my list, but even I tend to take it for granted sometimes with so much competition this Spring. I really do have to keep this one short, but it’s no reflection on the episode, […] Read more
Those were the biggest meat buns I’ve ever seen. The hours are slipping away and I have to be up early for a bone-crushingly full day tomorrow, at Fanime and otherwise, and I’d really planned to make this a fairly short post on MGX. But dammit, now I just want […] Read more
List of people not to piss off: 1. Killua Zoldyck I can’t recall the last time I laughed so hard at something non-comedic as I did at the last scene of this episode of H x H. It wasn’t so much that it was funny, but it was just so bodaciously awesome […] Read more
I think in order to enjoy F/Z to its fullest, you need to be either a major sadist or a major masochist. Happily though, either would probably work. It’s not like he ever makes it easy to forget, but Urobuchi-san certainly likes to remind you with brute force just who’s […] Read more
Holy time skip, Pig Boy! Only time for a brief check-in with the craziness this weekend. As you know AW was sort of on the chopping block for me after the last couple of episodes – I just wasn’t finding myself very involved in the story anymore. But I have to confess […] Read more
Wherever The Truth is from, apparently they need more lolis. Speaking only for myself, this might have been the most “Eureka Seven” episode Astral Ocean has offered yet. – complete with a massive plot bomb, much of which was incomprehensible to my feeble brain, at least so far. I guess […] Read more
Sometimes the term “femme fatale” can be taken quite literally. Just a brief check-in with Lupin III this week I’m afraid, as I’m trying to front-load the schedule as much as possible in preparation for Fanime this weekend. I was very interested to see Okada Mari’s old pal Nishimura Junji […] Read more