Is it just me, or is Space Dandy getting damn dark this season? A marriage between Yuasa Masaaki (Ping Pong, Kaiba, Tatami Galaxy) and Space Dandy always seemed destined to happen sooner or later. A series that’s given over weekly to a different auteur to re-shape in their own image […] Read more
Space Dandy is one series that sure doesn’t let the moss grow under its feet. Here’s a a measure of just how trippy and weird this show is – this was the episode before the Yuasa Masaaki episode. Watanabe Shinichirou continues to make Space Dandy a revolving door of guest […] Read more
Words cannot possibly do justice to the sheer creativity that goes into Space Dandy. It feels as if Space Dandy has never been away, really, except that it starts its second season much more strongly than it did the first. There were some ups and downs in the first season, […] Read more
Space Dandy finishes its first season pretty much where I expected it to back when it all started. There were definitely some peaks and valleys in the first cour of Space Dandy, which are inherent in the style with which it chose to tell its story. But in the end […] Read more
The comedy is back in a big way this week, but… I’m having a hard time looking at Space Dandy as the same straightforward free-association comedy I once thought it was. There’s no question that themes have started to emerge over the last several episodes, coming together under the general […] Read more
The chickens are really coming home to roost now. I hardly know where to begin talking about an episode like that one, because it was so intellectually dense, opaque and a total mind-screw to boot. Space Dandy has done surrealist and even psychedelic more than once, but this was something […] Read more
The cream, as it usually does, is rising to the top. The welcome news that Space Dandy will indeed be 26 episodes (split cour, with the second presumably coming in the Summer or Autumn) couldn’t have come at a better time, because the series is on a serious roll at […] Read more
That was an amazing trip, in many senses of the word. It would seem that Space Dandy has ventured so far and wide across the stylistic map that it should have offered something for just about anybody by now – and if your tastes happen to be of an eclectic […] Read more
For a show where things repeat themselves so often, Space Dandy is proving stubbornly unpredictable. Well, Cowboy Bebop fans should certainly get off Watanabe-sensei’s case now. Not only has he given them an episode that had a complete Bebop feel (#5) but now he’s referenced the show directly by including […] Read more
My God – it’s full of stars… Space Dandy is managing to do something pretty rare in anime, and that’s not repeat itself. Part of that comes from the HEIII/reset button format (though Meow actually snuck a little continuity into the mix this week just for a nano) but it […] Read more