After the most light-hearted arc in the series so far with Kuro and the trip to the woods, The Fable goes dark very fast. The level of coincidence in this series bothers me a bit – everyone seems connected to everyone else. But I suppose in this sort of underworld setting that might not be …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I thought we’d check back in on Blue Reflection Ray, and see how our heroes are faring in the wake of their successful rescue operation. Saving Miyako from the red reflectors ultimately required a brave step forward from Ruka, as she pushed past her anxieties …
Yeah, yeah. Look with your special eyes, etc. Impressions: I think the worst part of this is the knowledge that this is going to be a whole goddamned major story arc of this one dude screaming about his special eyes. What restraint too, stopping at just a dude with giant eyes and a dude …
Camera sure likes her chest, doesn’t it? Impressions: I really wish the animation and fight scene direction in this show was better. It’s at least trying to tell a story, and has covered more ground in any given episodes than, say, Shy, has in four, and the characters continue to be at least baseline competent and …
‘Tis the season for romcom. A development I only partially caught going in – in the preview I talked about ‘lots of school/romance/SoL”. But this goes beyond that – the schedule is just packed with romance series. Some of the ones I’ve blogged I previewed and some I didn’t. I do appreciate the genre, though …
The second part of this commission from Nicc was to come up with a short list of my favorite married (or effectively married) couples from anime. Not necessarily the focus of the series (we all know how rare those are) but generally. I’s not like the medium is swimming in memorable married couples even in …
