Zetsuen no Tempest may have undergone a pretty significant style change, but there’s still nothing else quite like it. There was an awful lot going on in this episode – so much so, in fact, that it makes the fact that most of episode 13 was recap somewhat more galling […] Read more

After waiting two extra weeks, it looked for a while as if all we were going to get in our Xmas stocking from BONES was a big, fat lump of coal. And no, I don’t mean the arrival on the scene of a certain seiyuu. It’s sad that recap episodes […] Read more

If I know anything, it’s that when two trees throw down, you do not want to get in the way. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the […] Read more

That was quite simply another example of magnificent theater from Zetsuen no Tempest. There’s absolutely nothing else like this series, and there hasn’t been for a while.  It’s old-school anime for sure, classic BONES, but it’s so old-school that it feels as much like Shakespeare of even Sophocles – and […] Read more

BONES really has the time travel bug lately… This was another magnificently over-the-top episode for Zetsuen no Tempest, which isn’t satisfied with its own florid dialogue – it’s actually quoting soliloquies from The Bard directly of late.  Interestingly, while the superficial template was obviously “The Tempest”, most of the lifted […] Read more

In all honestly I’m having a hard time sorting out Zetsuen no Tempest, but the fact that it’s something special shines through that uncertainty. I don’t know why BONES didn’t decide to take on Shakespeare years ago, because they pair together like wine and cheese.  Rarely in anime have I […] Read more