Before I wade in on this episode itself, just a little observation. When Nemu came swooping in on her broom, it struck me – she looks like Kiki (as in Delivery Service). Like, “all she needs is the black cat behind her”. And then it hits me – she is the black cat. So Nemu …
For once, I’m in agreement with the zeitgeist about an anime. The second season of Shoushimin Series was way better than the first, and it seems that’s the consensus. It’s 8.03 vs. 7.33 on MAL and 3.9 vs. 3.5 on Anime Planet. That’s a pretty massive difference but in my view it’s entirely justified. It …
If this is the cold open tradeoff, I’ll take the recaps, please. I knew Grell would be returning this week, but it still felt like a kick in the nuts when that face appeared and Fukuyama Jun started vamping. This was mercifully brief, so not a big deal – in effect we got as much …
Don’t advance the plot or anything. Impressions: Everybody’s laid up, and so with two episodes left, it’s time to… lay in bed and sit there. I’m not sure which part of this episode would be the worst, but I think it comes down to the either the two hacker girls’ thing just being “We’re …
While one cour was never going to be ideal for Kowloon Generic Romance, at least it’s getting an “old-school” cour – 13 episodes. Zygotes of the CR generation won’t remember of course, but 13 was the default for anime cours (apart from NoitaminA) for most of its history. And most series ran 26 eps at …
Screw the city. That car is in danger. Impressions: At least we got nearly ten minutes of over the top super hero fighting. That’s better than not. But for how little time is being given to the characters and the writing in general this arc, you’d expect it to not be quite this… awful. The bare …
