Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Our late summer weather reprieve finally broke this week, meaning I’m hunkering down for half a year of gloomy New England doldrums. I’ve never been thrilled to live in a region whose weather feels like the meteorological embodiment of depression, but I imagine I’ll bear it …
The last major premiere of the season (not counting ONAs) is Kimi to Koete Koi ni Naru. It found itself in the mid-table section of the preview despite being a shoujo romance, a category I normally don’t vibe with, for a couple of reasons. The manga seems pretty well-regarded as best I can tell, and …
Our next to last full day in Tokyo began in earnest when Phil & I took the Keisei line train to Shiodome where we transferred onto the Yurikamome line that took us to the Tokyo Big Sight station. Just across the Rainbow Bridge, as we passed into Odaiba, we could see the life-sized Unicorn Gundam, …
He’s sitting in a chair backwards. He gets young people like me. Impressions: All this show is accomplishing is making me appreciate the trashy friend’s sister show more. Both for the pacing, and for weirdly, feeling more genuine, though it absolutely has the chance to ruin that by how it handles this exact thing …
The extra racism is the fun part. Impressions: I was getting all ready to comment on how it was actually toning down all the rapey overtures from the manga, letting the racism and furry fetishism take the forefront, but of course not. And everything about that sentence should be a red flag. Well, maybe …
While each of the first two episodes of Kikaijikake no Marie have had moments of charm, on the whole the show isn’t doing much for me. The direction and overall production seem a little slapdash to be honest, which is surprising with the ultra-experienced Nishimura Junji in charge. But to the extent that anyone is …
