SnO ends more or less as it spent most of its run – as a pleasant diversion which occasionally both soared into the realms of brilliance and slipped into the pit of mediocrity. The last episode was, at least, one of the more balanced of the series in terms of […] Read more
Boy, it sure gets ugly when manga readers and non-manga readers square off over an anime adaptation. Especially when it comes to ending and big, climactic battle sequences. I happen to have not read the manga for Sora no Otoshimono. In addition, while I enjoy the anime for the most […] Read more
This was, in some ways, the most balanced episode of SnO yet. The plot and character development was actually integrated with the comedy for a change, instead of being totally separate entities. The comedy this time surrounds the “Tomoki Peeping Tom System” – and ingenious mix if pipes and mirrors […] Read more
This week represented something of the yin/yang of this series for me. The first segment was full of the elements I loathe – Chibi-Tomoki, Mikako, another of her interminably tedious “competitions”. The second was wall-to-wall Ikaros being kawaii with a side of Nymph, which is a concoction I’ll take every […] Read more
So – what maketh a great Sora no Otoshimono episode? Let’s review: – Minimal or no chibis, especially Tomoki – check – Minimal or no Taicho, Sugata and Sohara – check – Jiggling Astraea boob shots – check – GAR Tomoki – check – And most of all: Ikaros actually […] Read more
Sora no Otoshimono, your plot is here… And it only took 7 episodes! This was probably my favorite episode of the season, along with the Buddhist retreat parody one. Almost no Mikako or Sohara, minimal Sugata, and a notable absence of Chibi-Tomoki bar a few seconds. All good things. It […] Read more
This week’s episode was back to the formula of the first four. There was absolutely no serious plot development at all – until the postscript, anyway. Nothing earth-shatteringly funny this week, just a couple of amiable “Bwaaaaaaka!” based storylines. The first involved Tomoki’s desire to prove to those snotty girls […] Read more
A two-part episode of SnO this week. The first half comprised really the only serious ep of the season, as Sugata makes another journey to the inside of Tomoki’s dreams, this time with Sohara as a hitchhiker. Turns out Sugata has figured out that Tomoki’s dream is actually the Synapse, […] Read more
This isn’t the easiest series in the world to blog, really. It’s mostly just outright silliness that you have to watch to appreciate. Seems to me that Tomoki is spending more time in chibi form this season, and this episode was no exception. This week’s excuse for lunacy is a […] Read more
“He’s already dead”. This, along with “After people die, where do they go?” form the legendary lines of this episode. There’s a funny sort of structure to SnO, where you basically have two episodes running parallel to each other. In one, Tomoki is in “normal” form and actual plot advancement […] Read more