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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Why is every master of their trade a 23 year old pretty boy? Impressions: I will have to admit that as far as these kinds of things go, this does have one of the better starts. Mainly because the lead is fairly charismatic. She’s confident, relatively competent, the period where she’s mewling in disappointment over …
