One gets to thinking sometimes, as one does. As I watched another robustly amusing episode of Witch Watch, what I was thinking was “Is Witch Watch a gag manga?”. We certainly don’t tend to think of Shinohara Kenta in those terms. When it comes to gag manga it’s maybe Roboco for WSJ, and that’s about …
Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun certainly is a funny old show. It just hums along, delivering one of the most sophisticated experiences in anime in terms of writing and production. And nobody talks about it. People buy the manga, and they even vote for the series in places like Anime Trending and Anime Corner. But it seems …
It’s a function of today’s anime landscape that we can get surprisingly polished productions from unexpected sources. There are so many studios out there now, many with very little track record. There’s a spectrum of expectations with known quantities – say, Production I.G. or Bones on one end and J.C. Staff on the other. But …
There are three summer anime that are really exploding commercially, based on the bump in manga sales (which is really the most important metric these days). They could hardly be more different, too. Takopii no Genzai and Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku are two of them – Kaoru Hana has seen the largest bump …
After the weakest ep of the season by a good margin, Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru rebounds decisively this week. Having less focus on the Ouran satire obviously helped. Having some serious focus on the romance angle obviously helped (a lot). But I think this show just generally works better when it focuses …
As if enduring it once wasn’t bad enough. Impressions: …Nope. Not getting any better. He cries and gives the emptiest of platitudes speech and bam, he’s a world famous hero. Which I guess is in line with the previous developments of this show where murdering everybody’s hero makes you their new idol, aside from …
