Maybe don’t use the third person as a personal pronoun if you don’t want to sound like a child. Impressions: Like High Card, another episodic action show from a couple seasons that was servicable, but never really great. It was mostly carried by its characters, particularly the ones that were constantly acting like gremlins …
High Card #13 — CGI Is the Ultimate Antagonist
As ever. There’s five premieres today. I’ll get through them eventually, but I have other things I need to attend to as well, so expect gaps. Impressions: Ah, yes. This show. One of the mediocre but servicable original action shows of a few seasons back that came to a weird anti-climactic non-ending, and even …
The Leaf and the Giant: The Astonishing Animation of Akihiro Ota
So, goddamn Wano, huh? It turns out I caught up on One Piece at an exceptionally good time. Over the past several years, the team at Toei have endeavored to make One Piece’s latest arc a landmark in the genre, a towering feat of animation offering film-tier feats of fluidity and scale on a nearly …
New UK Anime Releases: 8th January 2024
A new week, in a new year, brings lots of new releases from Anime Limited, Crunchyroll and MVM Entertainment. Out This Week: 8th January 2024 A Couple of Cuckoos – Season 1 Part 2 (Blu-Ray) Flying Witch – Complete Collection (Blu-Ray) Gundam Build Fighters – Part 2 (Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray) Love Live! Nijigasaki High School …
First Impressions – Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san
We arrive at the first entry from the sleeper list this season, Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san. It looks like a contender for “that” slot on the schedule. You know the one I’m talking about – the one with the ice guy, the tiny salarywoman with the giant sempai, the angels who design evolution, the dojikko boss. …
Villain’s Day Off #01 — The Evil of Banality
Yawn. Oh, oops. This is a Sunday show too. Forgot about it. Impressions: I feel like the thing that so many of these shows get completely wrong is by half-assing the entire premise. The west especially has had a ton of shows about superheroes and supervillains trying to do normal lives as comedies, from Venture …