This week sees a wide variety of new releases from Anime Limited and Crunchyroll, including re-releases of DARLING in the FRANXX and Sound! Euphonium from Crunchyroll as well as Part 3 of Bleach from Anime Limited. Out This Week: 13th January 2025: Banished from the Hero’s Party I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in …
OP: “L’oN” by Masayoshi Oishi (オーイシマサヨシ) In accordance with my usual imperative never to bury the lede (incidentally, there’s a fascinating ongoing debate over whether that should be “lede” or lead”)… This episode was great. Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun is back and while it’s been almost five years (for the anime), it’s as if it never …
And we are finally done with being teleported and given cheat powers. Quasi-Impressions: I’m going to use this as a dumping ground for the rest of the Sunday shows because I blipped through all three and really don’t want to actually sit down and fully engage with any of them. This one’s the easiest. …
Nice hat. Impressions: Oof. Weekends are looking pretty awful this season when a Jump show is at the top. As expected here, about 98% of the jokes are the girl smuggling basketballs in her bra saying “That is the wrong cliche for this setting” when he does a cliche sentai thing. I’m not sure …
As is sometimes the case, the extra-curriculars with Sakamoto Days are more forward-facing than the story itself. In the first place it’s decidedly odd that such a huge commercial hit – one of the biggest in by far the biggest manga magazine in the world – took so long to get an adaptation. At 19 …
It’s ironic that Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite didn’t skip an episode for the new year (which is almost unheard of for anime to my recollection) cause boy howdy, this series does love a time skip. And this is a big one – 25 years this time. To be frank it’s a good “time” …
