Gachiakuta is on a hell of a roll lately. But I don’t think it’s strictly a streak so much as just what this series is. It really is the sweet spot for a classic battle shounen. It’s clearly in the tradition of the trail-blazing kaijuu of the demographic (more from Jump than anywhere else) but …
Ranma ½ (2025) – 07 The equation with Ranma ½ is pretty simple at this point. No Happosai means good episode, lots means dreck. Last week was a cruel reminder that there are some rough patches ahead, and with Happosai dominating the entire ep the way he did it felt like the sky was falling. …
With special guest Princess Usagi! Welcome back for another episode of My Taste is Better Than Yours! It’s another Jumping to Conclusions, the final one of 2025. We have three new series, with a pretty broad range of genre and – in our view – commercial potential. Samu and I are joined by fellow RC …
Sure, unleash the killer robot drones on school children. Impressions: Pretty terrible episode from this one as well, and just missed joke after missed joke while it instead attempted to torture simple things into something resembling humor. For the first segment, the sister is back, and her drawings are bad, which confuses Alma. That’s …
Severely lacking horny Lestat. Impressions: Half the episode spent on an ‘interview’ which contained none of the actual interview and was just an excuse to recap half the premise of the show. Specifically Luna’s character. Featuring two blank faced people staring ahead with glassy looks in their eyes asking questions like “So, you’re a vampire?” There was …
The word that keeps popping into mind watching Kingdom this season is “impeccable”. For this kind of series, it would be pretty hard to do much better. The animation remains nothing special, but the writing is so good that it almost doesn’t matter. Not that it wouldn’t be great to have I.G. or Bones here, …
