Kore ga ii desu yo. Yes, this is the Witch Watch that works best for me. I love romcoms, and I like both couples in play here. But this show thrives on pure goofiness. It’s not that it’s bad at being a romcom, or even at being “serious”. Shinohara Kenta is too good a writer …
Another absolute gem of a Hanako-kun episode to mostly be ignored (or at least not discussed). This series has been on an incredible run lately – some of the absolute best material of the entire series, and that’s a high bar. It strikes me that G Fantasy is incredibly lucky to have its two signature …
Yuki to Kimi to. With You and the Rain has been on a pretty impressive run the past few weeks. This episode was possibly the weakest of the series to day, though. If this show has a fault it’s a tendency to get a bit too precious and self-indulgent. It achieves a kind of authentic …
I don’t want to say “losing interest”, but it’s looking more and more to me as if Sono Bisque Doll and I are two ships passing in the night. It just doesn’t seem to care that much about the relationships, and about Wakana even less. Mostly it just wants to fetishize Marin, go full otaku …
We’re really calling anybody a hero, huh? Sorry. My laptop self-destructed in the middle of watching this, and I spent over an hour trying to recover it. It’s done this before, but revived after 15 minutes. This time I think it may be gone for good. So I had to pull an old one …
Certainly a lot to unpack there, ROFL. We’re in full Japanese horror mode now, with mysteries unspooling and some proper jump scares. Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is good at those for sure, but the essence of its horror identity will always be creepiness and atmosphere first. Since world-building is so essential to its identity, it’s …
