Well, what do you know – in the end, Moshidora was an anime after all, not a lecture series. First of all, it was a safety bunt – Kawashima was bunting for a base hit. That was a nice way of dodging around the whole strategy/integrity issue, I guess. Given […] Read more
STILL Eeeeevil! Whatever else you might care to say about Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it’s one of the most talked-about anime in many a year. Japan or the West, it doesn’t matter – fans everywhere were literally and figuratively atwitter over this remarkably original spin on the Mahou Shoujo genre. […] Read more
A few words now about Ghost Hunt, a series I didn’t follow when it originally aired in 2006. I’ve just finished its 25-episode run. What prompted to watch it after almost five years? It was the fact that its creator, Fuyumi Ono, was also the creator of one of my […] Read more
Inconsistent is the best word I can use for this series. Inconsistent pacing. Inconsistent internal logic. Inconsistent behavior by the major characters. Inconsistent tone. you get the point – it really felt as if they were winging it a lot of the time. That’s too bad, because at its best […] Read more
I said when I reviewed the first episode of this series that I didn’t quite know why someone had green-lighted it, and that I was glad they did. You don’t see many 15 year-old manga, especially relatively unheralded ones, get anime adaptations. And this series isn’t remotely like anything else […] Read more
It’s hard to imagine a show less original and with a thinner plot than Infinite Stratos. Given that, the series really should have been a waste – unworthy of your time at best, unwatchable at worst. So what happened to make it actually sort of pretty OK, kind of? Well… […] Read more
Index is an odd series. For starters, the title character is about the 4th most important character, and often disappears for entire episodes as a time. I love Index but I know she’s not a fan favorite. She reminds me of one of those characters that appears with a splash, […] Read more
I believe I’d be hard-pressed to find a lot of series that improved as much from start to finish as this one did. Was that the case in the manga as well? I can’t answer, but I do know this – even though I enjoyed the first ep a lot […] Read more
Yamakan set himself up for all this, I’m afraid. It’s never a good idea to put the kind of pressure on himself that he did, and as a result I think a lot of people came into this series predisposed to hate it. And it’s good – damn good – […] Read more
Series like Hourou Musuko don’t really come around all that often. They’re not going to make any money, for starters – honestly, I don’t know who it was that green-lighted this show but I’d love to personally thank them. That’s what’s so great about NoitaminA – it gives […] Read more