Whole lotta blood splatter this week. Impressions: This episode definitely blew its load in the first half. The animation was at least on one of CloverWorks highs and the first two fights were both quite well animated and choreographed, even if they all ended up being pretty simplistic. The pair won by grabbing the …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re rejoining the battlefield alongside Yuki Yuna and her companions, as our heroes fight for the last fragment of reality in a hostile, voracious world. The revelation that our heroes were sacrificing themselves as nourishment for the Divine Tree proved only the first of this …
Splitting this final battle into fragments was the whole point of the heroes’ plan, of course. That necessitates a lot of narrative shifting around too, and that can be a bit of a risky move. We haven’t seen Deku or Kacchan for two weeks (and really, for most of this arc). It requires a deft …
Many thanks to Paul Reubens for the title inspiration… Longtime friend of LiA and Patron Casey W. stepped up with this commission. Casey asked me to write a top 10 list of anime set in the United States. Or, failing that, outside Japan. The only rule was that they be “real world” settings – a …
You just recalled all your scouts after the first sortie? Impressions: I really have to question what it is we’re even doing here at this point. There’s no mysteries left hanging in the air anymore. No plot threads really going on. The rebellion and the red girls are I guess still out there, but …
Gee, who could have thought it would happen twice? Impressions: After the first eight minutes or so, I was worried this was going to be another completely boring harem episode. Then the dude goes up to Adonis, tells him that he killed his dad, robbed his corpse, and Adonis is just all “Yeah, that stuff happens.” …
