Let the bloodletting begin – but as usual, it will completely miss the point. I’m not going to use the pretext of yet another stellar episode of White Album 2 to dump on Golden Time.  That series is still reaching me on a visceral level and I respect that, but […] Read more

There’s just no let-up in the emotional barrage. This has been a really intense anime week emotionally, and it was pretty much a given that White Album was going to deliver some big-time feels considering where it left off last week.  It’s a different sort of intensity with this series, […] Read more

This is one of those anime episodes that make me ask – if the medium is capable of such brilliance, why can’t we see it more often? I just have to scrape my jaw off the floor after that episode of White Album, to be honest.  I’m floored by how […] Read more

What a fine bloody mess this is turning out to be. It’s a shame none of the central cast of WA2 has heard that old adage about ripping off the band-aid, because the longer this whole confrontation is deferred the worse the pain is going to be.  I’ll give Kazusa […] Read more

Um, so yeah, that whole thing you guys are doing?  It really doesn’t work. Plan A: Invite girl you know loves your boyfriend along on an onsen weekend over Christmas. Plan B: Make lobotomy appointment. At this point, the realization is hit me that the reason White Album 2 hits […] Read more

Even for someone who saw big trouble coming down the line, this was bigger and more immediate than I expected. Well, no question about it, we have a colossal mess on our hands now.  Having danced this dance with romance anime many times before, I’m far too wizened and skeptical […] Read more

In case there was any doubt, that light at the end of the tunnel is definitely a speeding train. There a tragic sort of tone to White Album these days for me, despite the generally warm tone to much of the material.  Rarely have I seen an impending train wreck […] Read more

White Album 2 must surely be leading the pack this season for unintentionally ironic dialogue – though I suspect it’s only intentional on the part of the characters, not the script… WA2 continues to be a romance anime with a difference, though for me that difference was a little blurrier […] Read more