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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
To make it simple, I’ll state what stands out to me about AnoHana right here in the first sentence – it’s the best show of 2011 so far, and it isn’t even close. Every season of NoitaminA lately seems to follow the same trend – one show that has a […] Read more
A few weeks ago I posted on Animesuki looking for some suggestions for older series I might have missed – and this one came up a few times. It caught my eye and piqued my interest, so I gave it a watch. Thanks to those who recommended it – my […] Read more