Concrete Revolutio doesn’t seem to be the anime we wanted, but it might just be the anime we needed. I’ve had the increasing sense while watching Concrete Revolutio – and never more so than this week – that this is an anime that will be regarded as a classic say, […] Read more
That was everything I hoped it would be, and more. There’s only one thing wrong with a series finale as great as “Lord of the Takanashi”. Namely, it was so good that it makes the pain of knowing it was the finale that much more acute. if “always leave them […] Read more
I knew I was right not to trust that kid… And so we come to the end of another season of Noragami. And so we once again are left to muse on whether we’re going to see more. If pressed I’d say I’m somewhat less optimistic than I was last […] Read more
What, you were expecting anything less? It won’t be appearing in this year’s LiA Top 10 list (thanks to split-cour status) but I can safely say this – Ushio to Tora will certainly be making an appearance in next year’s unless one of two things happen. It’d either have to […] Read more
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