The rules are a little bit different with romcoms than some genres. Especially with relatively short (10 volume) series like this one, a survey course of the tropes is perfectly fine. Part of the experience is seeing what sort of treatment romcom standards get. Be they holidays, situations, secondary relationships – it’s the execution that …
Gotta Do My Best to Do My Best. Impressions: The race to the bottom for this season continues apace. I had few hopes for this episode after the non-resolution of the previous one, and boy, did it not live up to even them. He goes to her and apologizes for not Doing His Best, …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to check back in on the freewheeling adventures of Yaiba, Sayaka, and their increasingly bizarre companions, as we screen a fresh episode of Yaiba: Samurai Legend. When last we left off, Onimaru’s ominous octet of oni had been largely dismantled, mainly owing to …
There are still a couple of unanswered questions about how Bones will end this adaptation. Mainly, which “final” chapter will it close with. But that it’s ending next week is a certainty. After seven seasons and 170 episodes, (mostly) highs and a few lows. Boku no Hero Academia is the most-reviewed series in LiA’s 14-year …
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 …
