The school festival will continue until morale improves. Impressions: Ugh. This doesn’t end this week? Not only that, but we’re for all intents and purposes extending the school festival ‘arc’? Sure, they’re at ostensibly actual restaurants and cafes… where there’s no other customers, one waitress for .5 seconds, and you prepare the food or do …
It’s that time of year again – no, not Kentucky Fried Chicken or strawberry shortcake, but the LiA Top 10 list. 2025 was another anime year that looked quite a bit different in retrospect than in did as I was covering it. As always there are some tough decisions to be made, both for this …
You know my normal philosophy is to not use the “Season Finale” header if there’s no official announcement of a sequel yet. But with Ranma ½ I really feel like it’s a very safe bet. In addition to the inherent logic that you wouldn’t have rebooted this long-finished chestnut if you had no plans to …
Boo, no Eden post-credits short this week. It’s 100% spy action, and perfectly competent at that. Truth be told though that’s not really why I watch Spy X Family. And it’s where the show’s inconsistent moral compass starts spinning its most wildly. Not to mention two of the series’ worst characters, Yuri and Nightfall, feature …
I actually knew this wasn’t the last (for now) episode of Kingdom (that’s next week), which makes a nice change from the first two shows I blogged today. Of course at this point it’s pretty safe to assume any finale for Kingdom is merely a pause – the manga is no less a sales colossus …
I really need to start tracking these things more closely, because I had no idea Fumetsu was running for two cours. Which is doubly idiotic because the first two seasons did, too. But there you go, we have another 10 eps to go (Fumetsu cours are never conventional length). The brevity of this piece shouldn’t …
