This week sees a large variety of new releases from Crunchyroll, with highlights including Konosuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson on Blu-Ray and DVD as well as a Blu-Ray release of My Dress Up Darling. Out This Week: 4th December 2023 Beast Tamer – Complete Series (Blu-Ray) Classroom of the Elite – …
It’s really going to suck when Overtake! ends in two weeks. I have a pretty good idea how that’s going to go down, and I do think it will be in a way that honors the development we’ve seen over these past ten weeks. But there’s so damn much tread left on these tires – …
There have been some very weak episodes of Spy x Family, that’s for sure. But none, I think, quite so disheartening as the last couple have been. While technically fine and occasionally superb, they’ve been truly awful in material terms. It’s hard to overstate how much writing like this undercuts one’s respect for the material. …
LiA Bespoke is back. Once again the benefactor is the incredibly generous Nicc, LiA MVP. And the commission this time is a straightforward one, my top ten sports anime. Or is it? As I’ve waded into this project, I’ve come to realize that it’s not nearly so straightforward as it seems. The main reason is …
One notes an interesting quirk in Kusuriya no Hitorigoto. To wit, many if not most of these cases never really get resolved. Maomao solves them – though usually only to the “probably” point. But often we never get a firm resolution, and almost always there’s no consequence for the culprit. The entire series has a …
In reality, people aren’t this nice. As a rule, anyway. But while Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen is obviously a fantasy, it’s funny how personal circumstances can impact our perspective on a series. In a sense I’m living the Momose experience, having recently fled a black company environment for one where (so far, at least) …
