First Impressions – Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!)

You know my motto, don’t bury the headline. The premiere of Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! was really good. Like, startlingly good. On multiple levels. I expected to love the character designs, because those are by Imigi Muru and he’s one of my favorite artists in manga. He illustrates the light novels (I know) Makeine is …

Second Impressions – Shoushimin Series (How to Become Ordinary)

Where’s Sherlock effing Holmes when you need him? I have a couple of primary thoughts in reflecting on the second episode of Shoushimin Series. First, would I be patient enough to give this series any runway if I didn’t have the Hyouka experience to draw on? And second, would I have given Hyouka any runway …

Anime Limited Announces New Titles & Reveals First Looks at Bleach, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War & Macross Plus: Sharon Apple Edition Blu-Rays for UK Release

The french division of Anime Limited, also known as All The Anime FR, made some pretty interesting announcements at Japan Expo in Paris, and (more importantly) some of those announcements will also be coming to the UK as confirmed by Anime Limited’s UK division. New titles include DEVILMAN crybaby, Tekkonkinkreet, as well as the Studio …

Too Many Loser Heroines #01 — Ma’am, This is a Denny’s

  Nice garnish. Impressions: Another kind of throwback light novel adaptation. This time to that era of things with titles like “My Teenage Youth Drama Is So Cliche” or “I Have No Friends and My Classmates Exacerbate My Melodrama.” An insufferable, melodramatic prat that spends the entire thing self-narrating everything while veritable swarms of ostensibly quirky …