Maybe get some better naming sense. Impressions: On the sliding scale of fantasy action/adventure shows between something like Inuyasha/Thundercats and Garo/Dorororo, this is very, very firmly unfortunately on the childish side. Hell, the first dude they encounter yells out that his special attack is splitting helmets, and they’re up against a group of bandits …
Is there just a package that all anime studios use for those things? Impressions: …Yep, it sure is bog standard BL. Sullen dude matched with pushy sparkly bigger dude, and oh no, what are these feelings, but maybe I like being dominated? Just as weird no matter the sexes or the configuration thereof. Thinking …
Why so much CGI when you’re so bad at it? Impressions: I think that it was probably meant to introduce three more characters, each in their own little eight minute segments, but the first 16 or so minutes had them sitting in a wagon/room, announcing their current situation for the benefit of mostly the audience. When …
Pretty sure a surgery record of 100% success makes you a witch. Impressions: I would say that it lost me as soon as it started doing the whole “You’re the world famous Surgeon Queen who has never once ever lost a single patient or made any mistake, EVER,” but it never really had me to …
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am laboring under a backlog of would-be essay writing, as my article on Wong Kar-wai’s gorgeous In the Mood for Love is proving itself stubbornly resistant to wrangling. As such, I’ve had to sacrifice some of my weekly film viewing writeup time …
The second part of Dark Flame Master’s commission was for a list of the my top five college anime. My definition for purposes of this piece was any series that was set mainly at a university, or where the protagonist(s) is/are a college student. This is another one of those requests that sounds easy but …
