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
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
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
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
Somehow, it seems only fitting for Punchline to end with an episode that leaves me totally exasperated. I’ll cut to the chase: I hated the way Uchikoshi ended this series. And that’s despite the fact that I smelled it coming for several episodes and wasn’t remotely surprised by it. But […] Read more
Sanzoku no Musume Ronja elicits a staggering range of thoughts and emotions in me. Which, ironically, is almost the exact same lead-in I used in my First Impressions post – though I’d totally forgotten that fact when I began this one. First and foremost, I think it should be noted […] Read more
Boy, does this show ever have a way of sneaking up on you. There’s never, at any time, been a moment when Kamisama Hajimemashita was my favorite anime airing. Yet it always seem to add up to more than you realize when you’re watching it, and it grows tremendously the […] Read more
For all that there are myriad qualities that can make an anime great, there’s just no substitute for sincerity. I’ll say up-front that I expected this finale to be an emotional one. Expectations can be a pretty big burden to carry, but I had faith that Watanabe-sensei and TMS could […] Read more
Fair or not, anime are always graded on a curve. And it’s a tough week for Aldnoah.Zero. Let me start out by saying I really didn’t this this was a bad finale. Technically it was solid, the action sequences were (as ever) terrific, and the pacing was fine. It was […] Read more
Did you really expect anything less from Death Parade? This is one of those shows that imposes the risk of having already said too much for me as a blogger. I mean, over the course of eleven episodes (and Death Billiards) I’ve laid out my feelings about this series and […] Read more