Hopefully this won’t be the most upbeat post you find on LiA this week. Read more
Working
First Impressions Digest – WWW.Working!!, Time Bokan
It’s a travel weekend for me, so the first few impressions of the season are going to be short and sweet… Read more
Working!!! Lord of the Takanashi (Series Finale)
That was everything I hoped it would be, and more. There’s only one thing wrong with a series finale as great as “Lord of the Takanashi”. Namely, it was so good that it makes the pain of knowing it was the finale that much more acute. if “always leave them […] Read more
Working!!! – 13 (End?) and Series Review
My one word reaction to how that finished: Uwah! Well now, it’s not too often in anime that I’m as surprised – and pleasantly too – as I was by the final few moments of Working!!!. About how the series would be ending I didn’t know much, except that I […] Read more
Working!!! – 12
If Akagami no Shirayukihime is great at making the normal seem exceptional, I think Working is great at making the exceptional seem normal. Stepping back and really looking at it, I think it’s hard not to be impressed with the third season of Working. It’s managed to raise the stakes […] Read more
Working!!! – 11
Well, I confess I didn’t see that coming. Working!!! may be the anime that breaks (or at least bends) all the rules when it comes to relationships, but it’s still an anime – so you didn’t expect things to fall into place all that easily, did you? Heck, one might […] Read more
Working!!! – 10
Remember all that stuff I said about Souta’s mom last week? Never mind. Working has always been an anime comedy with great chops – it could range all over the stylistic palette and deliver spot-on humor. What we’re seeing more than ever this season (though not exclusively this season) is […] Read more
Working!!! – 09
Working isn’t done stirring the pot yet – not by a long shot. It’s pretty remarkable just how much Working!!! has upped the ante when it comes to plot this season, and just as much so that it’s done it without stepping on the series’ comic effectiveness. The hits just […] Read more
Working!!! – 08
Working really is the gift that keeps on giving. This series is really one of anime’s little miracles. For a series to be as consistent as this one has over three seasons spread out across five years is remarkable. For a comedy to do so, that much more remarkable. Yet […] Read more