Nobody does BONES like BONES.  So why don’t they do it more often? (Spoilers to follow) This was a generally satisfying conclusion to Towa no Quon, though there were a few things that were too predictable and a few that still don’t make sense.  But expecting everything to make sense […] Read more

Of all the shows I blog, this one might come closest to being strictly for myself, judging by the sparsity of views and comments.  And that’s really too bad, because it’s a worthwhile series. In some ways I think you could argue that this is the best show BONES has […] Read more

Better late than never, it’s Towa no Quon 04 – and it continues the increasingly dark path the OVAs have taken. I can’t help but think this idea would have been better served as a TV series than an OVA, but then that’s usually my opinion about these things.  It’s […] Read more

Towan no Quon continues to traverse some pretty dark territory, and still feels very much at home smack dab in the middle of the BONES tradition. While we still aren’t getting much in the way of background, bits and pieces are continuing to trickle out.  We also saw a continuation […] Read more

Towa no Quon returns with a second episode that’s tighter, darker and more focused than the first.  Thanks to solid production values and an outstanding cast, it provides solid entertainment and some fairly effective character drama. In some ways BONES, more than any studio, feels both more firmly rooted in […] Read more

Take Darker Than Black, add a touch of Ghibli and a dash of character designs that look like Leiji Matsumoto and what do you get?  Something perhaps in the mold of BONES’ 6-part movie project, Towa no Quon. There’s an interesting pedigree behind this one.  It was originally the project […] Read more