It’s another series finale, as I wrap up No.6 over at RC. This was my favorite screencap, right up to the end… Read more
Series Reviews
Usagi Drop – Series Review
As I look back on this series, it strikes me that it managed to be very faithful to the manga, yet separate itself from it in some crucial and fundamental ways. That it managed to do so without turning off most of the manga readers is a pretty remarkable achievement. […] Read more
Steins;Gate – Series Review
When people (me included) write the book on anime in 2011, there’s no question that Steins;Gate is going to be acknowledged as one of the most important and most popular anime of the year. Through three quarters, S;G, Madoka Magica and AnoHana are probably the three most talked-about series of […] Read more
Hikaru no Go – Series Review
It’s nice to know that after over a decade watching anime, I can still be surprised. Of course, along with that comes the knowledge that I’m guilty of pre-judgment and closed-mindedness. So how is it that it’s now, almost ten years after it finished, I’m finally watching one of the […] Read more
Deadman Wonderland – Series Review
There are some obvious and serious problems with anime adaptations of incomplete manga or light-novel series – I don’t think I have to elaborate beyond that. There are even more serious problems with one-cour adaptations of such stories that extend beyond a few volumes. Deadman Wonderland, alas, suffers from pretty […] Read more
Gosick – Series Review
Gosick was a series of many faces. Probably too many. It was a two-cour series with some room for real development, and indeed we got quite a share of that. But we also got some stand-alone mysteries that didn’t hold together, some romantic diversions that amounted to flat-out time wasting […] Read more
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko – Series Review
First things first. If you’re going to construct an entire TV series around characters being ridiculously cute, they damn well better be really, really cute. And Denpa Onna to Seishin Otoko got that right. You better have a high tolerance for moe if you’re going to watch this show, because […] Read more
Dororon Enma-kun Meerameera – Series Review
Sometimes, good series are easy to blog. Sometimes, mediocre series are easy to blog. And sometimes, good series are really hard to blog. Dororon is a good series, but damn, it’s hard to blog. Why are Yuki-onnas so damn cute? I love this show. For my money and with apologies […] Read more
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi – 12 (End) and Series Review
So with this episode, one of the strangest shows of the year ends in a strangely conventional fashion. Hoshizora closes its run with a straightforward romantic conclusion that settles on exactly the pairing predicted from the first episodes. There were no hints of an Ayumu end (not even a brocon […] Read more
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control – Series Review
I’ve already gone on ad nauseum about the interesting trend that seems to have developed with NoitaminA. Just about every season seems to have one heart-warming emotional series and one intellectual, sci-fi/fantasy based series. Every season has one show that attacks the problem of the 11-episode format with a targeted, […] Read more