You’d think it’d be the testicles, not the gallstones. Impressions: For being a big reveal episode, it’s still as unsatisfying to me as most of the others in this show have been, and for largely the same reasons. Everybody is curious about some mystery, wonders if there’s some connection, and only Maomao Xiaomao has …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to slink back into the shadows of Call of the Night, after a premiere that embodied the manifold strengths of author Kotoyama and director Tomoyoki Itamura. Anxious yet intensely felt sensuality, charmingly off-kilter protagonists, and a preoccupation with the “dead time” of our …
Anime that premiere in the middle of the traditional season usually do so in non-traditional places. That’s certainly the case with Ninja Kamui, a straight-to-Cartoon Network series with simuldubs in English and Japanese. But it’s anime – produced in Japan by a Japanese studio – and if I cover stuff on Netflix I see no …
Not to be a broken record, but Denken is absolutely the MVM of this arc. He’s really keeping it afloat, frankly, amidst a sea of predictability. He seems to be drawing the short straw over and over in the luck department, which leads me to believe he’s being flagged to eventually fail at least, if …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re checking out a new property I was recently commissioned, as we explore the first episode of the currently airing Solo Leveling. To be perfectly honest, I’m not entirely sure what to expect from this one, or how exactly it might be my sort of …
I wish I’d kept my Monster Manual. The phenomenon of manga adaptations is endlessly fascinating. Looking at Dungeon Meshi, a very recent commercial powerhouse, it’s interesting to speculate why the anime receives much lower aggregator scores than the manga. Frankly, as a reader I find it hard to imagine what fans of the manga might …
