So long to an incredibly fun show – but hopefully not goodbye. Read more
Series Reviews
Arslan Senki – 25 (End) and Series Review
Memo to Manglobe: Was that so damn hard? It’s finale weekend in anime (a few frontrunners beat the rush last week, but you get my point), and it’s been possibly the strangest I can remember. Working gave us an ending that wasn’t an ending and made us ecstatic about it, […] Read more
Gangsta – 12 (End?!) and Series Review
See Manglobe, this is why people get pissed off at you right here. I hardly know where to begin talking about that episode, to be honest. The first 20 minutes were great, but that’s like saying the 20’s were a great decade except for the whole Great Depression thing at […] Read more
Working!!! – 13 (End?) and Series Review
My one word reaction to how that finished: Uwah! Well now, it’s not too often in anime that I’m as surprised – and pleasantly too – as I was by the final few moments of Working!!!. About how the series would be ending I didn’t know much, except that I […] Read more
Ore Monogatari – 24 (End) and Series Review
That was an ending that highlighted both this series’ charm, and its limitations. I really don’t think there’s any other way Ore Monogatari could have ended, or perhaps even should have ended. So I’m not disappointed with this finale in any significant way. But at the same time, you can’t […] Read more
Baby Steps Season 2 – 25 (End) and Series Review
Bear with me – I just need a minute… Well, this was a pretty sad day for Baby Steps fans. In my case it wasn’t the result of Ei-chan’s match with Nabae, because of course I knew that was coming. But the lack of an announcement at the end of […] Read more
Joukamachi no Dandelion – 12 (End) and Series Review
In the end Joukamachi no Dandelion didn’t offer up too many surprises, but that’s by no means strictly a bad thing. You know, expectations are merely prejudices when you strip away all the artifice. Did Joukamachi no Dandelion live up to mine? Did it surpass them? It doesn’t really matter […] Read more
Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku
How can I possibly start my final Mushishi post ever with anything except “Thank you”? OP Sequence: I just need a minute, I’ll be fine. Honest. I put off watching “Suzu no Shizuku” for quite some time. Part of it was going through a very busy patch and not wanting […] Read more
Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki – 12 (End) and Series Review
So ends a real head-scratcher of a season for Sidonia no Kishi. In many ways, I’m at a loss to explain Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki. There was an awful lot of plot drift here – in fact, I’d go so far as to say the entire cour could easily have been […] Read more
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works – 25 (End) and Series Review
How fitting that a Fate/Zero character best sums up my feelings about the last arc of UBW. But why rub it in? I can’t say it any better than Waver did, so I won’t beat it into the ground. And truth be told I said pretty much everything I needed […] Read more