Inconsistent is the best word I can use for this series. Inconsistent pacing. Inconsistent internal logic. Inconsistent behavior by the major characters. Inconsistent tone. you get the point – it really felt as if they were winging it a lot of the time. That’s too bad, because at its best […] Read more
Typing this from on board a Singapore Airlines 777, on the way to California from Narita. No doubt getting some strange looks from my fellow cattle as to my choice of viewing, but screw them. As always for this last two weeks, apologies for the delay in posting this. On […] Read more
That was a pretty good episode, though I’d somehow gotten my wires crossed and thought it was the finale. Imagine my concern at about the 18 minute mark – I was sure we were headed for the non-ending of all non-endings. That surely must have set the series record for […] Read more
Now that was more like it. This episode of Yumekui Merry was the best in a long while. There was a real current of menace and suspense running through it, start to finish. Some things weren’t perfect, true, but on the whole it was free of the pacing issues that […] Read more
Fittingly, a dark and depressing episode of Yumekui Merry this week – hardly a drop of humor and barely a glimpse of Merry’s navel. The overriding tone was one of impending tragedy that no one had any power to stop. I miss John Doe, the rakish and inscrutable muma we […] Read more
I guess either I or Yumekui Merry is out of whatever funk we were in last week, as I enjoyed this episode just fine. This is an odd little series, with highly original BGM and visual style. While the plot is nothing to write home about and the pacing some […] Read more
I didn’t get much out of this episode, to be honest. It was pleasant enough and even had some action and plot advancement, but it just didn’t make much of an impact for some reason. Maybe it feels as if some of the material is feeling a bit repetitive, like […] Read more
In some ways this was a fairly low-key episode of Yumekui Merry. It was a beach ep for starters, with all the trite fanservice moments that implies. But as it so often does, it manages to spin things just far enough off center to make the conventional feel surprising. It’s […] Read more
Merry wasn’t the cutest thing on screen for a change this week. The reintroduction of John Doe brought with it some lovely nekomimi henchmen in even lovelier outfits, along with yet another fascinatingly different art style. You can say this for Yumekui Merry, it never stands pat from week to […] Read more
The series that gives the expression “navel gazing” new meaning takes another interesting turn this week and joins in with this season’s overall theme – moral uncertainty. I’m really struck by the way this show manages to feel radically different every week. Some of it is attributable to the fact […] Read more