Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen is still hitting all the right notes, no matter how few people are listening. It’s funny, but for a series that seems to have failed spectacularly in important respects – certainly in terms of commercial success and impressing fans of the Nomad anime – it feels to […] Read more
There can be few series that have so thoroughly made me rethink an established franchise as this one has. That I consider Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen an outstanding anime is certainly no secret by now. But it’s such an odd thing to follow the reactions – or rather, lack of them […] Read more
Kanaria, I knew you had it in you… I’ll be the first to say that I never would have suspected that Rozen Maiden had it in itself to be this transcendent and special. I’ve been effusive in my praise for the director and writer of Zurückspulen, and I think with […] Read more
Enter the Desu… Well, this is a moment we definitely knew was coming sooner or later. There was always going to be a point where the dolls would take center stage, Jun and the cast of the Unwound World would fade into the background (quite literally, as it happens) and […] Read more
There’s so much about Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen that’s different from the anime we usually see – and the Rozen Maiden we’ve seen before. Yes, it’s really happening – I’m going to drop the “simple and profound at the same time” bomb again, because Zurückspulen really deserves it. In fact I’d […] Read more
What a joy it is to watch really talented people at work. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I’m finding this new adaptation of Rozen Maiden to be a truly marvelous thing. Superlatives practically leap to mind as I watch it – beautiful. Elegant. Minimalist. Profound. […] Read more
Another briefer than usual dispatch from the road. Servant X Service – 06 They moved Servant X Service again? I can’t remember another recent show that seemed to hop around the schedule like this one does, but better today than Saturday night/Sunday, I suppose. I confess I’m still not sure […] Read more
The best-looking anime episode of the season so far comes from DEEN, and I’m not nearly so surprised about that as you might think. It’s pretty rare for me to lead with the visuals when blogging an anime episode, but they were really off the charts on Rozen Maiden this […] Read more
You can officially scratch this one off the “maybe” list, though in truth you could have done it after the brilliant second episode. One word review time again , and this time around the word is “elegant”. You could even say minimalist and you wouldn’t be too far off in […] Read more
Anime are a lot like race horses – if you want to predict how good they’re going to be, you could do a lot worse than looking at the pedigree. Any concerns I had about Rozen Maiden: Zurückspulen after the middling premiere have pretty much evaporated. The last two episodes […] Read more