Category: New Anime

  Boy, this laser sure got impotent quick. Impressions: Be careful what you wish for. We mostly drop the whole stupid training test thing to focus on the actual supposedly dangerous monster rampaging around, and get mostly blue balled. Didn’t it vaporize some girl’s head last episode alongside a gratuitous (nonsensical) torture scene of an …

Less is more. It’s almost as if someone was listening. After bemoaning the almost total absence of Buchio (and his wing of the narrative building) these last two weeks, he and Takumi had the entire episode (almost) today. And it did nothing but confirm my belief that for me at least, Tonari no Youkai-san is …

It’s a dangerous game The Fable is playing, turning Akira (since the Boss calls him that I guess I will too – maybe it’s really his name?) into a sympathetic figure. Just because he’s emotionless about killing dozens of people – and most of them are mob-related – that doesn’t absolve him from blame for …

The series Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai calls to mind – Seirei no Moribito, Akatsuki no Yona – reflect the elite company it keeps. Director Kyougoku Yoshiaki did work on Moribito in fact (as a key animator). And of course Yona was like this series a product of the massively underrated Studio Pierrot. So the …

I probably take Kuroshitsuji for granted to some extent. It’s not easy to be this good for this long, and even if there are occasional stumbles along the way they’ve become increasingly rare as the series has progressed. Even more, though, Black Butler has the ability to be both flamboyant and subtle, and that’s a …