It seems kind of odd to compare Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun to Sanda. I mean, you could hardly imagine two shows more different thematically. But they do have one very important thing in common. They’re focused on that peculiar stage in life when kids are perilously balanced between child and …
Too much, or not enough LSD. Impressions: …I’ve completely lost the thread of what this entire sequence, or arc, was even meant to be. It turns out that the entire episode last week, he did indeed just have a literal fever, and wasn’t really having a panic attack or whatever. So he spends the …
Nothing with a series as massive as Boku no Hero Academia happens in a vacuum. Especially a Jump series, and especially at the end. The events on screen are important. They’re the main reason we’re here, why I’m writing and you’re reading. They’re the climactic moment of 167 episodes of buildup. But they kind of …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re checking out something a bit different from my usual fare, as we screen Round 1 of Alien Stage, which to my understanding is a somewhat mixed-media but largely music video-driven narrative project centered around human singers being forced to compete for the entertainment of …
Sanda is, in a pair of words, exceptionally interesting. It plays across an extremely wide tonal range very effectively (just as Beastars does, and perhaps even more so). Itagaki Paru (the English Teacher, ROFL) trades in some very deep and interesting ideas here. It took a while to fully close the circuit for me but …
That was the spiciest ep of Shabake so far, no question. The level of violence may not have reached the level of murder of people this time, but it was more viscerally foul. There’s a distinct darkness to this series that always set it apart from the typical “that niche” youkai series it sometimes resembles. …
