Oh boy. This jerk. Impressions: Welp, it’s an episode focused on the rich dude, and it doesn’t develop or redeem him in any way at all, and definitely doesn’t advance the story at all. Rich brat is generically sort of sullen over daddy and haunted by nightmares of him, befriends poor kid at Rich Kid U, …
Kaiba’s final episode begins with the plant that is its namesake extending its tendrils through space, eager to consume all memories, to devour everything humanity has fought for and built. It is an omen, a warning, and perhaps an inevitability: if we do not tend carefully to the cultivation of human experience, if we do …
No really, we mean it this time. Seriously. I was always going to get back to this eventually. As I’ve said multiple times, I’ve invested far too much aggravation in Attack on Titan to let it beat me. I’m going to finish the fucker, come hell or high water. But fittingly for a series whose …
I find the premise of Meiji Gekken 1874 interesting, as I’m a sucker for samurai tales set in the Meiji Era. But there’s just too much of- well, everything. Too many plot threads, too many characters (some historical, some strictly fictional), too many damn names. And much of it is not really joined properly, for …
I’ve come to the unsettling conclusion that apart from the panda fetish (and the world domination gig) Warumono-san and I are basically the same guy. Seriously – he has all my hangups, all my obsessions. He sentimentalizes everything, even trash. He loves cats and tries to communicate with them. He obsesses over the small pleasures …
Premieres and finales. Are they the most important episodes of a series? Broadly speaking, I would say yes. And I’d add that final episodes are, generally, the hardest to get right (and that applies to more than just anime). And they’re challenging in another sense as well. As I wrote in my Shouwa Genroku Rakugo …
