I’ve seen some carping about the current episode being a step-down from the first four, but I thought it was outstanding. The casual dialogue was excellent and funny in both a deadpan (“Phones? They do that, yeah.”) and absurd (“Sis, even in the afterlife I’ll never forgive you for what […] Read more
Still great, this show – beautiful to look at, wonderfully acted and insanely clever. This ep might have been a very small step down from episode three, but it was still outstanding. The episode picks up more or less where the last ended, with Kozue still missing and now Maya […] Read more
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin continues to be the best series of the summer so far, the only one to offer three winners in three episodes. Make no mistake, there was a definite change of tone here – this was a sort of “occult slice of life” interlude. But that’s something this […] Read more
Episode two pretty much confirmed what I suspected after the first one – this is the best series of the summer. Perfect? No – but we’ll get to that in a minute. What Occult Gakuin has in droves is style. The animation, the BGM, the ED – this is clearly […] Read more
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin A-1 Pictures continues to be an interesting studio. Most famous as the home of Yutaka Yamamoto, exiled from KyoAni and the helmer of the excellent Kannagi adaptation, A-1 has consistently produced good-looking series, and this one is no exception. Writer Seishi Minakami has worked with Satoshi Kon […] Read more