OP: “Kagome Kagome (かごめかごめ)” by Masayoshi Oishi (オーイシマサヨシ) Hanako-kun accepts the baton back from Ciel, a tag-team I can definitely get used to. GFantasy is once again repped on the schedule with a standout adaptation that’s a hallmark of consistency, a franchise much deserving of its great commercial success. Kuroshitsuji is the elder statesman of …
Busu ni Hanataba wo. – 01 There are two seinen romcom adaptations this season whose descriptions read like shoujo romances to me (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku is the other). And after watching this premiere I’d still pretty much have been fooled. Labels are just labels of course, and those two demographics can have …
The reality is that Summer 2025 is going to be a challenge to cover. I have a job and limited time, and I previewed 27 shows – it is what it is. Today is an egregious example, with six or seven that I planned to at least introduce (and most of them, probably cover). Sacrifices …
Whatever they’re paying these script writers, it’s far too much. Impressions: I would say that the script once again careened entirely off the rails, but it was never really on them to start with this episode. So let’s summarize just to try to get all our ducks in something approaching a tesseract because there’s …
My first reaction after a premiere like this is always a telling one. There are a severely limited number of series which premiere with the potential to be AotY. When they don’t have a known elite director or come from someplace like Bones or Wit, the uncertainty factor shoots up. Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is …
Wooper: We interrupt your regularly scheduled first impressions to bring you one man’s overdue post on the recently concluded anime season. My thoughts on one show in particular proved particularly hard to wrangle, but eventually I managed to get something on the page, so here’s the last of spring’s biweekly check-ins. As for whether the …
