It’s a big week in manga, as Boku no Hero Academia officially ended today after a glorious ten-year run. Samu and I wanted to share our thoughts on this landmark series as close as we could get to real-time, so we recorded a retrospective podcast this past weekend. The two of us have a long …
Without any animation, this gets immeasurable worse real fast. Impressions: Boy, that week off certainly didn’t help the script, or animation for that matter. What a tedious, awfully paced episode. The first half may as well have been on a loop explaining the following two factoids. 1.) There is a magic festival, where it …
After a one-week Olympic break, Shoushimin Series returns both to the airwaves and LiA. It won the Patron Pick vote, which consisted of Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san, Shoushimin Series, Giji Harem, and Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan. To be honest I was expecting Alya-san to win, but it wasn’t even close – Shoushimin …
Boy, this is turning into a hot mess now. There is a lot if plot armor where Akira is concerned – he’s so strong that you never really feel like he could be in danger himself. But you do feel for a guy just trying to quietly exist who trouble always seeks out, even if …
If what you’re chasing in the anime experience is to have your expectations defied in a good way, Makeine is pretty hard to beat. It may be time to admit this series is a unicorn. But I have a lot of scar tissue with LN adaptations. Whenever I let myself really like one, it hurts …
I’ve rather suspected that the long knives were lying in wait for The Elusive Samurai. Some of the praise for this adaptation has seemed quite grudging, which is unsurprising given the general lack of respect the manga has received. If some were looking for an excuse to turn on it like Ashikaga on the Houjou, …
