The fact that Kingdom weekly looses a barrage of Chinese names at me like arrows at an army climbing a hill is rough enough. The fact that it does so on Japanese Sunday when I’ve got like 27 other shows on the docket compounds the problem. I’m going to have to give myself a break …
Man, Bucchigiri?! is something else altogether. It leaves the driveway at 80 MPH and never slows down or looks back. “Unhinged” is the word that kept popping through my head watching this ep. It’s kind of a free-association sensation, as we pinball from one absurdity to the next. Everything is connected and it all sort …
The thick plottens. A pretty straightforward mystery episode for The Apothecary Diaries here, without a lot of obvious character-focused material for the main cast. I’m not convinced there wasn’t a bit snuck in there though at the end of the episode, though that’s strictly my speculation. As I understand it fans of the LN/manga are …
Boring, boring. Not BokuYaba (obviously), but my reactions to it. I feel like Sasaki Norio has created effectively the perfect first love romance here, and in Akagi Hiroaki found the perfect director to do it justice. In a funny sort of way it sometimes strikes me as the romcom version of what Baby Steps is …
Yo, can the CGI horse back the hell off? Quasi-Impressions: Perhaps this will be a strange thing to note, but this episode was weirdly dull. Or maybe that’s just coming off attempting to watch the second episode of that Mappa original show with a dude screaming nonstop about his virginity and/or diarrhea. But also, …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’ll be checking out the very first episode of a new project, as we explore the recent adaptation of Kotoyama’s supernatural romantic comedy Call of the Night. The show got some solid buzz two years ago, with audiences generally praising its strong atmosphere and charmingly …
