Who’d have thought an episode about hugs, kisses, and Santa Claus would be so twisted? The themes in Sanda are complicated. It’s an Itagaki Paru manga, and that’s what she does. They may be a little more focused and clearly-stated here than in Beastars, but that doesn’t make them easy to pin down. Certainly the …
It’s always nice when a show you sort of low-grade like levels up in its final run. Shabake has definitely done that. And in the process issued more proof that it doesn’t really fit the “that niche” category it superficially appears to. Generally when slice-of-life Shinto go into “plot mode” to finish their run, they …
Oh no. Did you piss off the elf fetishists and now have to have invoke some tokenism? Impressions: It would take a lot to outperform the sheer horribleness of yesterday’s android show, and this didn’t even put up a real fight. The start maybe had a little promise, as it was three minutes spent mincing around …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today the sun is shining on a crisp October day here in the city, the kind of day that invokes a natural yearning to get out there and savor the countless tiny stories of a community in motion. Well, I gotta finish this here article before …
PA Works, fire everybody who wrote this script. Impressions: Hooooooly hell. This episode was a pure infodump, which is a catastrophe to start with, but spent the entire time being The Worst Thing Ever™. We start with the reveal that actually, Akira was completely fine after the shooting back in episode 0, but it …
I don’t think there’s any question Wandance is improving, in both major ways. The story itself continues to get more compelling, and it’s been really good right from the start. And the dance sequences are getting better (and they haven’t). As I noted last week, the dancers themselves actually look decent – it’s the transitions …
