This one is really growing on me. Sometimes oddball shows – especially comedies – kind of chip at your resistance until you let yourself enter their universe completely. The somewhat demented sense of humor here is working better for me every week. It’s SHAFT – and Shinbo – so you […] Read more
Episode 2 could easily have been titled “Arashiyama and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. It strikes me that I’ve very rarely seen a series for which success is going to depend more on how the viewer likes a seiyuu. Chiaki Omigawa is an actress that tends to […] Read more
Shinbo is back, with another manga adaptation – this time Masakazu Ishiguro’s Soredomo Machi wa Mawatteiru. Think Shinbo’s version of “Natsu no Arashi” crossed with “Working!” and you’re getting pretty close, though Shinbo always makes every series his own (for better or worse). What works? To start with, this is […] Read more