Ending or not, that felt like a fitting conclusion. Without a doubt, coming into the season I viewed Subete ga F ni Naru as the appetizer for NoitaminA mystery, with next season’s Boku Dake ga Inai Machi as the main course. I still feel Boku Dake is going to be […] Read more
I don’t suppose this is the sort of story where you get an “And they lived happily ever after”… Author’s Note: Images coming tomorrow, hopefully. Blogger seems to have disabled Windows Live Writer Again… There are certain rules of mysteries, with varying degrees of “officialness”, And I think, ultimately, Subete […] Read more
I never thought I’d see No.6 and Fractale back on NoitaminA… Ultimately, I suppose, any mystery series is going to come down to the mystery for better or for worse – and this episode was definitely all about the mystery. Fortunately this… Well – what was it? Not a denouement, […] Read more
This series stubbornly refuses to be predictable, that’s for certain. I’m noticing a trend with Subete ga F ni Naru, one that’s recurrent enough to suggest that it goes beyond coincidence. The second half of almost every recent episode has been considerably more compelling than the first, and this week […] Read more
Talk about a tale of two halves. I think something needs to be said straight out about the use of English in anime, and it’s this: sometimes Westerners like me can forget that the target audience for Japanese anime is Japanese, not American or French or Scottish. When we criticize […] Read more
Well, those last two minutes were certainly bracing… OK, before I go any further, I just have to ask – does the world’s most advanced civilian computer lab not have a walk-in refrigerator or freezer? Does it not occur to anyone that if you’re going to try and convince the […] Read more
I can only imagine the polarization of the audience for Subete ga F ni Naru is going to get wider after an episode like that. Thank goodness for Subete ga F no Naru, you know? It has its flaws I won’t deny, but it’s really the only series this season […] Read more
The further Subete ga F ni Naru goes down the rabbit hole, the better I like it. The more anime I watch – especially given the broader creative trends in the medium – the more I realize that strangeness is a good thing in and of itself. That’s not to […] Read more
It’s a big season for mystery anime, but if you ask me this is the one that really matters. The funny thing about NoitaminA is that when it comes back with a series like Subete ga F ni Naru, it’s easy to imagine it’s never really left – you just […] Read more
Greetings from Bogota! So it turns out the internet at this hotel is damn good and the co-workers and myself didn’t paint the town too dark a shade of red, so I thought I’d check in with a very brief (anything you get from me this week is likely to […] Read more