End? Yeah, right! If you’d told me one sports anime was going to have a second season end card today, I’d sure have bet on the one that didn’t rather than the one that did. But fans of Haikyuu!! (in honor of the final episode I’ll use the exclamation points, […] Read more
Never have I been happier to fill in the title line. I hardly know where to begin, really. I’m stunned, for starters. Flabbergasted. Elated. Grateful. Never happier to be wrong. When something you want very badly but seems so unlikely you don’t even allow yourself to hope for it happens, […] Read more
I’m sad to see Captain Earth come to an end, but on the plus side at least we won’t have to hear the nonstop bitching and complaining every week. Well, for a series that was more BONES than BONES in ways both good and bad, it seems only fitting that […] Read more
Well – never let it be said that Aldnoah.Zero didn’t end its first season with a bang… A couple of thoughts just to start with… Yes, I believe she’s really dead this time. She better be, or credibility destruction is complete. As I said once already – Slaine shot first. […] Read more
As endings to manga adaptations go, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like that one. It’s been a crazy week in the world of Tokyo Ghoul. Not only was the anime ending in a blaze of hyper-pacing with rumors of a possible continuation (at this stage based on […] Read more
It’s pretty much official – Summer scored at least one spot in the year-end Top 10 list. Author’s Note: This post contains spoilers from events in the manga which occur during the timeline covered in this episode, but which somewhat differ from the anime version. Read at your own risk. […] Read more
If you were pissed the moment the ED started, just remember – it could have been a whole lot worse. Yowamushi Pedal finishes off an excellent three-cour season with an excellent finale, but it certainly raises some interesting questions: did the production committee know along that a second season would […] Read more
The most surprising series of Spring 2014 ends pretty much as expected, but that’s not a problem for me. Gaworare has been an odd series right from the start, and in the final analysis quite a different sort of show than I expected. It a sense it’s as if I […] Read more
Even by Byrnhildr standards, that was an unholy mess. What – you you expecting something different? Take a series that’s batshit crazy to begin with, and add trying to do a complete adaptation of 9 volumes (and counting) in 13 episodes and what do you get? One of the most […] Read more
Great endings truly are a beautiful thing. One of my oft-stated core beliefs is “good endings are hard”, but episodes like this one make it awfully hard to make the case. The thing about great endings is that they usually look incredibly easy – they have the effect of making […] Read more