It strikes me that we haven’t had an insert song in weeks – since the season premiere, maybe? For a while there it seemed like we were getting one every week just about. What with a dance party on the docket Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid could hardly have a better pretext, so hopefully we …
(According to MAL, this is my 570th completed anime!) I say in a lot of my reviews that it often times doesn’t matter if a piece of media’s tropes and premises are cliche or overused, as these days, nothing is truly original anymore. There’s really nothing inherently wrong with cliches in and of themselves. It’s …
I hadn’t been paying the closest of attention, but apparently Loser Ranger is off this week, and a quick glance at all the other shows that I recently gave up on has them all continuing to do the things that made me sick of them. And I don’t want to go to the trouble of …
I’m at the decision point with The Fable, given that we’re almost halfway through the season. It was on the Patron Pick ballot and while it did pick up votes, it didn’t win (more on that later). So if I cover it, it’s going to be strictly of my own volition. Sunday (my time) is …
This show is certainly taking a kitchen sink approach when it comes to alternative fiction. It started off looking like a pretty conventional (if rather winning) Shinto fantasy. But there were a few horror tropes sprinkled in, and now we’re getting into some straight-up science fiction. It’s not every Japanese folklore fairy tale that has …
Dungeon Meshi – 18 [Shapeshifter] To absolutely no ones surprise, Dungeon Meshi continues to be great. This week it brought us the classic Doppelganger encounter, but with the usual Dungeon Meshi twist. Not content with just one Doppelganger, we had nine, three for each of our cast members. And as if that wasn’t enough, each …
