I gotta say, this ep of Witch Watch has to be one of the all-time “If you know you know” moments in anime history. Any Japanese person under 50 certainly will get the joke in the second chapter. But almost no foreigners will. The thing is this, though – if you’re one of the .1% …
There’s no denying Shoushimin Series has been much more interesting to me this season. And judging by aggregator scores it seems I’m not alone in that reaction. I was quite worried when the Billy Mumphrey firestarter arc ended, as that seemed to herald a return to focus solely on Osanai and Kobato. But while that’s …
One little word… Long recaps are kind of baked in to my perspective on Black Butler at this point. They’re annoying, but some series just do them (Boku no Hero Academia is another). They don’t come as a surprise, and are really the only consistent negative I can point to in these otherwise superb past …
We still have a month to go, more or less. But in the end I think Spring 2025 is likely to end up right where it looked like at the beginning, with Kowloon Generic Romance as the clear best series. There have been bolts of genius elsewhere, and some pacing issues here. But in the …
I miss when this was about superheroes. Impressions: There was a real missed opportunity here to characterize her being treated by cultists with PTSD rather than being all goofy and silly about it. That’d have also been a good vector and excuse for her to shy away from going back to deal with the …
This show has lost whatever thread it ever had. Impressions: This episode was quite bizarre. It starts out with a minute and half music video of a dude slowly walking towards the camera during a mass shooting, spends the next fifteen minutes in a briefing, and then ends with a random SWAT team getting …
