So ends a real head-scratcher of a season for Sidonia no Kishi. In many ways, I’m at a loss to explain Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki. There was an awful lot of plot drift here – in fact, I’d go so far as to say the entire cour could easily have been […] Read more
Confirmed : this is turning into one of the strangest harems ever. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works – 24 I guess when a series delivers up a perfectly competent, attractively produced and well-paced conclusion (though not finale) that wraps up the major storylines in exactly the manner it’s built up […] Read more
UBW is one of those stories where the bad guys are a lot easier to root for than the heroes. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works – 23 Much, much better. I mean, obviously. It would be difficult to list all the ways this episode of Unlimited Blade Works surpassed the […] Read more
In the name of all that’s holy, Gil, please blow it up. Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki – 09 This has been kind of an odd season for Sidonia no Kishi. Compared to the first the story really hasn’t progressed all that much – partly because of an increased […] Read more
Sidonia no Kishi is starting to resemble one of the strangest reality shows you’ll ever see. Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki – 08 On the face of it, not a whole lot of ink need be spilled over this episode of Sidonia no Kishi. It was a sitcom ep […] Read more
I’ve heard of self-loathing, but this is ridiculous. Sidonia no Kishi: Daikyuu Wakusei Seneki – 07 For a Sidonia episode with this much comedy in it, this week’s effort was surprisingly good. In fact I’d wager to say it was about the best yet in terms of humor, though parts […] Read more
Look out – it’s got a gun! Owari no Seraph – 05 There are some strikes against this series that would normally be large enough to be insurmountable, but I’m going to give it yet one more episode. Why? Two reasons, the first being that it looks as if it’s […] Read more
Memo to Sidonia – you may be taking this whole “moeblob” thing a bit too literally… Sidonia no Kishi is nothing if not consistent. When it does characters, it’s clumsy and stiff in every way. When it turns to sweeping plots, action scenes and hard sci-fi intellectual navel-gazing (no other […] Read more
And sometimes the three-episode rule is plenty. Plastic Memories – 03 I’m afraid this is the end of the line for me with Plastic Memories, at least in terms of blogging it – I’ll watch another ep or two to see if it surprises me, but I’m increasingly convinced that […] Read more
Sidonia no Kishi is back, and you’d never know it had been gone. This has certainly been the season of throwbacks so far – they’re all over the schedule in many shapes ands sizes, and in many ways Sidonia no Kishi fits right in with that theme. With it’s technologically-driven, […] Read more