First Impressions – Shoushimin Series (How to Become Ordinary)

OP: “Sweet Memory” (スイートメモリー) by Eve Summer kicks into high gear this weekend, with a number of the big titles on my list breaking ground. Shoushimin Series certainly falls into that category, and the main reason for that is simple – Yonezawa Honobu. He’s the novelist of the source material, and the creator of Hyouka, …

The Elusive Samurai #01 — The Many Faces of Shounen Comedy and Tragedy

  Okay, there’s only actually one. Impressions: It’s unusual to actually see production issues in this day and age. Most studios just… don’t animate things now. But if any animation studio will be at the forefront of that, you can count on CloverWorks. There’s both a bunch of framerate problems where the cel work on the …