Category: New Anime

To me, the difference between the first and second cours of Chi Chikyuu is pretty self-evident. If you don’t see it,  my justifying it won’t make it visible – we just don’t see it the same way. But no question for me, this was at least progress. It’s not a hugely high bar but I …

As the third act of this episode was playing out, I couldn’t help but reflect it inwards. If people would just watch Trillion Game, maybe they’d realize how fun it is? I mean, who knows – it’s certainly not a series that pushes a lot of commercial buttons where Western anime fandom is concerned. It …

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I announce with great trepidation that we are returning to Yuki Yuna is a Hero’s Washio Sumi Chapter, after three straight episodes that have been a delightful mix of group bonding and tactically grounded Vertex takedowns. If this were any other show, I’d at this …

I have (and pretty much always have had) an impression with Blue Box that even as it’s gently patting your head with one hand, it’s raising the knife to stab you with the other. The equation is strongly tilted in favor of love, but I do have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. …

Not for the first time, I’m struck by how unconventional this show is structurally. Generally speaking narrative fiction follows the three-act construct – Setup, Conflict, Resolution. Episodic TV would typically unspool those in a single episode or, in some cases, over a multi-episodic arc. With Kusuriya it feels like the cameras are randomly turned off …