Like Hunter X Hunter, Space Brothers is a series that’s easy to take for granted – it just keeps delivering. OP3: “Yume Miru Sekai (夢見る世界)” by DOES As I briefly mentioned, I saw the live-action version on the flight over (as well as Thermae Romae, interesting as I saw the […] Read more

Forget Space Brothers – this is the cartoon I want to watch. I’ve remarked before that JAXA seems to take its cue from the Hunter Association when it comes to examining its candidates.  If anything is clear, it’s that nothing should ever be taken at face value, and this episode certainly […] Read more

Awesome.  No other word I can use to sum up that episode. Pretty much everybody got a great one-liner or two in this week: Mutta: “SHOW-AH!” Ozzy: “Major props.” Apo: “Arufu!” Nanba-Otousan: “I…would…describer her as…pretty.” Director Nasuda: “Start the ending music!” There’s pretty much nothing like Space Brothers in anime […] Read more

Wow – that was an overdose of pug porn. Uchuu Kyoudai is many things, but one of them is a chronicle of how Mutta’s seemingly bad luck ends up being good in the end.  So I have no doubt that drawing Azuma Takio (the stalwart Nomura Kenji) as one of […] Read more

It’s kind of depressing that in a series about space exploration in 2025, commercial airliners seem to have made almost no progress from what they are today – and that’s probably accurate… Well, so much for that whole drama surrounding Kenji.  It’s a bit of a letdown in a way, […] Read more

As with Hunter X Hunter, it’s awfully nice to have Space Bros back – I really missed it last week. For me, this series really hasn’t put a foot wrong in the last couple of months.  I could see where some might argue that it’s overly sentimental, but I find […] Read more

Man, they’re certainly drawing the suspense out on this damn selection… One of the things I’ve noted about Space Brothers is how easy this show is to enjoy – in fact, for me it’s almost impossible not to enjoy it.  There are many reasons for that, and I think one […] Read more

Manly tears dammit, manly I say… That was another great episode for Space Brothers, but it’s hardly surprising.  This show is the one I take for granted, the one that simply delivers in quiet but brilliant fashion week after week.  This entire arc has been a striking example of the […] Read more

How fitting that today’s episode of Space Brothers should be so focused on curiosity. Looking back over the first 19 episodes of this series, I’d have to say this episode was one of my favorites, despite the fact that not much really happened.  It’s not like we’ve been counting the days till […] Read more