And back off the grid we go… Turns out last week’s trip to relative normalcy was a short-lived one for Space Dandy, which is squarely back in surrealist mode this week.  Episode 5 was certainly a pleasant interlude and the positive response (though rather Pavlovian) not underserved.  But that […] Read more

I suspect this episode was exactly what many semi-gruntled Space Dandy viewers were waiting for. I decided to re-watch last week’s excellent Space Dandy in the English version, just to give it another chance to impress me.  To be honest I still don’t see what folks are talking about – […] Read more

Four weeks in, some trends are starting to emerge with Space Dandy. For those that care about such things, Space Dandy seems to have been better received in the U.S. than in Japan – which is not surprising given how much backlash the show got in advance in Japan for […] Read more

Whatever they’re putting in the water over at BONES these days, I wish they’d sell it at the local kusuri-ya. I think it’s in the very nature of what Space Dandy is trying to do that it’s going to be somewhat hit-and-miss.  The series has pretty much dispensed with traditional […] Read more

It finally feels as if the anime season has started, thanks to this week’s Space Dandy. We finally have the “wow” premiere that I’ve been waiting for since this carbuncle of an anime season started – except it wasn’t a premiere.  I’ll reiterate what a shame it was that BONES […] Read more