So long, Saitama – but this ain’t no goodbye. The first season of One Punch Man draws to a close with without a question its most emphatic battle sequence yet – though the results certainly come as no surprise. In a series built around anti-climaxes stopping in the middle of […] Read more
Ending or not, that felt like a fitting conclusion. Without a doubt, coming into the season I viewed Subete ga F ni Naru as the appetizer for NoitaminA mystery, with next season’s Boku Dake ga Inai Machi as the main course. I still feel Boku Dake is going to be […] Read more
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Yes and no – but this one was already pretty fond. It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to write about Kekkai Sensen – just a little over three months, in fact. And that’s too long, given the circumstances behind this […] Read more
The last finale of the season (not counting Manglobe, apparently) comes from one of its most underrated simple pleasures. Read more
So long to an incredibly fun show – but hopefully not goodbye. Read more
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
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
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
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
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