Definitely the sound dogs make. Impressions: Maybe I’m out of touch with the dating culture of Japanese teenager, but if somebody brought me to their house and introduced me to their collection of shirts that have chimeric multi-heads dogs all over them, I’m not sure that I’d be blushing and getting horny. That should …
Oh, so Clayface isn’t vulnerable to physical objects after all. Impressions: At least it’s still trying with the animation, but at this point, the script is quite unsalvagable on both the moment to moment level as well as the macro level. Their big plan was to capture a random elf and then hit it …
OP: “KATAWARA” by STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION Senya may be carrying a thousand demons around inside him. But this season of Sengoku Youko is more like a thousand character introductions. They’re going to come fast and furious for a while, many of them the very best in Mizukami Satoshi’s oeuvre. And while we’re on the subject, …
Another one for the bubble I suppose, though Oshi no Ko is kind of in its own category. A show this big that I know as well as I do has its own considerations that are quite different from the usual bubble series. I frequently find OnK frustrating as hell (as I did this week) …
On balance I’d say the ledger is still in the positive for me with Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san. This was my least favorite episode of the first four, though. The first half was kind of a bore, and then we got a couple of head-desk moments that were pretty tropey. The …
The two tentpoles of current anime comedy. Impressions: At least there’s some contrast… sort of. We get the student council, though mainly focused on two of the three. One barely reacts to anything, and the other overreacts to everything. Again though, there’s not really any structure or purpose to it past “let’s have some other comical …
