Dance dance devolution. Oops. I completely missed that this was entirely a Sunday morning broadcast now. Or late-ish Saturday US time. Impressions: But also, this episode was terrible. Terrible in exactly the way that I expected the first episode to be. In that it wasn’t about fighting evil bugs or aliens at all, and …
When your character designs are clearly not a mess. Impressions: Another mostly inoffensive but not actually particularly funny comedy. I find it slightly more tolerable than Mechanical Marie, but that may just be that it’s on its second episode and the joke has been entirely run into the ground just yet. It’s only 80% …
Phil & I began our day’s adventure by traveling to Asakusa. We exited the train station’s Senso-ji exit, turned left, then headed toward the crowd of people. The massive throng was tourists, Japanese and international, struggling to find a reasonable vantage point from which to photograph the famous Kaminarimon gate with its giant red paper …
It’s good that Ranma ½ airs more or less at the same time of the week (for my blogging purposes it’s materially the same time) as Witch Watch. From a mood standpoint they fill absolutely the same slot for me. Abjectly silly comedy that puts a smile on your face and doesn’t make you work …
Needless to say that was a huge improvement over the season premiere. And a reminder than Spy X Family can be a very good show, when it sticks to what makes it interesting and Endou Tatsuya seems genuinely interested in what he’s writing. That second point may seem like an odd one, but few series …
Kingdom is nothing if not a marvel of consistency. You just don’t get peaks and troughs very much with this series. It’s always good, almost always excellent, and occasionally spellbinding. That and its pedestrian (though nowadays perfectly passable) animation make it a perfect candidate to be serially overlooked. As indeed it is, by almost the …
