It strikes me that we haven’t had an insert song in weeks – since the season premiere, maybe? For a while there it seemed like we were getting one every week just about. What with a dance party on the docket Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid could hardly have a better pretext, so hopefully we …
I hadn’t been paying the closest of attention, but apparently Loser Ranger is off this week, and a quick glance at all the other shows that I recently gave up on has them all continuing to do the things that made me sick of them. And I don’t want to go to the trouble of …
I’m at the decision point with The Fable, given that we’re almost halfway through the season. It was on the Patron Pick ballot and while it did pick up votes, it didn’t win (more on that later). So if I cover it, it’s going to be strictly of my own volition. Sunday (my time) is …
This show is certainly taking a kitchen sink approach when it comes to alternative fiction. It started off looking like a pretty conventional (if rather winning) Shinto fantasy. But there were a few horror tropes sprinkled in, and now we’re getting into some straight-up science fiction. It’s not every Japanese folklore fairy tale that has …
Horses for courses, that’s the theme of the day. Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai is a match made in Heaven for me, obviously. But also for Studio Pierrot. They have an unerringly steady hand with this sort of material, to the point where there’s literally no studio I would trust more with any work of …
“Horses for courses” is a turn of phrase you’ve heard me use before. And an especially apt metaphor for Derby Day (what a finish). Usually it’s in reference to an anime matching my own tastes, like this season’s Yatagarasu or Tonai no Youkai-san, and the extra cred that brings with it. But it also applies …
