I think any worries that Zetsuen no Tempest would slip out of character and go for a subtle, understated ending can safely be set aside… As guest-hosting gigs go this certainly is a pretty good one, so thanks to Zephyr for asking me to fill in for him covering Zetsuen’s […] Read more

If it’s done anything at all wrong lately, Zetsuen no Tempest has set the bar impossibly high for its own finale. Let me re-state for the record, I haven’t read the Zetsuen no Tempest manga, so I have no idea how it chooses to wrap up the events in its […] Read more

Gods, there are times I really love BONES.  Thank goodness there are still folks in the anime business who care this much. Zetsuen no Tempest may be last in my my list of tags, but it’s rapidly climbing towards the top echelon of recent anime.  I’ll spoil any suspense now […] Read more

I’m not sure which is sexier, a girl in a loincloth with a rocket launcher on her shoulder or a schoolgirl in uniform with a really big sword.  But either way, it’s fun having to think about it. As you may have noticed Zetsuen no Tempest is the series from […] Read more

Some may have been surprised at the events this week on Zetsuen no Tempest, but I think they were actually fairly predictable. I confess I’m kind of torn about the non-event (not the sort of event it might have been, anyway) the revelation of the truth between Yoshino and Mahiro […] Read more

If I were to pick an album that suits Zetsuen no Tempest perfectly, it would be “Strange and Beautiful” by Aqualung.  It fits too – not that many people bought the album, either. I’ve said many times about both this series and the studio that produced it that not only […] Read more

I’m trying to sort out my feelings for Zetsuen no Tempest but believe me, it isn’t so easy.  There’s no show quite like it. Without wishing to complicate things further, let me introduce a quote from yet another of Shakespeare’s plays (A Midsummer Nights Dream) which seems appropriate here: Captain […] Read more

Bless you, BONES, for continuing to not give a damn about the flavor of the week. Zetsuen no Tempest is yet another Fall series of sterling quality that’s a complete commercial flop, which is something of a recurring (and depressing) theme.  I can understand it to some extent, because Zetsuen […] Read more

I don’t know what the hell that was, but it sure was fun. I have to hand it to BONES – they’re continually surprising me with Zetsuen no Tempest.  I wasn’t thrilled with the direction the series seemed to be headed in last week, and while this was hardly a […] Read more