Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan (Tower of God: Return of the Prince) – 03 Tower of God, always a conundrum. A weird series, both in and of itself and in its place in my personal memory bank. As much as I enjoy it at these early stages it’s never been an easy one from …
I certainly think How to Become Ordinary is headed into the bubble/patron poll. But you can’t assume that with Yonezawa Honobu, who’s one of the odder writers in Japanese pop fiction. His series are such slow builds that the possibility of some sort of light switch, nexus point moment happening is always real. I wouldn’t …
Shut up about this girl, already. I’m out of town for a few days. I’m not going far, and there’s not a lot of shows Monday-Wednesday anyway (Shy/Vampire Vtubers on Monday, Deer on Wednesday), but things may be a bit delayed. Impressions: I couldn’t help but think through this episode that playing up the …
First of all, something good is clearly happening over at A-1 Pictures. Between Makeine and Nigewaka (at sub-studio Cloverworks) they have the two best-looking shows of the season. Like, by a mile – not even close. Over the years their track record has been more middling with a side of inconsistent, but these two shows …
For me, there’s no question Youko is the scariest person in this series. Akira being as impassive as he is given what he does for a living is certainly more unnerving in an intellectual sense. But he’s so disarmingly unthreatening that unless you really stop and think about it he just doesn’t scare you. Youko, …
At this point it’s safe to say something has seriously clicked with Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi. Two of the best leading indicators for an explosion in popularity are the proliferation of fanart, especially hentai (check), and a surge in sales for older volumes of the manga (check). It sounds strange to say a WSJ title …
