Everything in Overtake! is setting up nicely for what should be a very satisfying ending. That’s one of the main upsides of original anime of course – assuming the planning has been carried out properly (and that the writer is decent) you never have to fit square pegs into round holes. It doesn’t always work …
In the fifteen years that I’ve been attending anime and gaming conventions; a lot has changed in terms of demographic, atmosphere, quality, and structure. I think about the time I went to Otakon in 2008, and how much the convention scene has changed since then. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that there are more …
And so it ends. And my AotY dilemma begins, though there are only two shows in the running for it at least. Recency bias can be a hurdle in that process to begin with, but certainly minutes after finishing a series is not the time to begin it. It’s a nice problem to have as …
Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 – 22 Back to digest mode for Mahoutsukai. But honestly, at this point that was the only way I was going to be able to cover it. I’m thoroughly bored with all this, and nothing that’s happened since Morrigan exited stage left has been of much interest. The scene with …
OK, that got complicated real fast. Another interesting episode of The Apothecary Diaries. In the present, yes, but even more so in the past. The intrigue surrounding the main cast leveled up by an order of magnitude, especially Jinshi. Unfortunately he kind of made he hate him again, just when my antipathy towards the character …
Apparently Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen has used up all the manga material and thus transitioned to original. This started last week and I noted that the transition seemed pretty seamless to me. That wasn’t the case here, as we got a bunch of short comic vignettes stung together without much of a unifying theme …
