Not enough dismembering. Impressions: The lack of an animation budget is what really held this back. Had either the initial little scrap up or the disarming hack-fight at the end actually been decently animated, I think that would’ve pulled a lot of attention from the unpleasantness that was the other new character of the …
But it is life. Impressions: It was… certainly another episode. While I don’t think that they engaged with the dramatic side of things last week, I do think at least a little bit of that element is important, especially if the comedy is going to so lackluster, and there’s no reason you couldn’t do …
Spy X Family 3 – 04 Back to normal mode for SxF this week, after an interesting if discordant trip into Loid’s past. It’s a two-parter this time, with no Forgers at all in the first. A famous opera singer named Wellman from Ostania is going to perform a “unity concert” in Westalis, and Handler …
Stay weird, Fumetsu. We’re fully back into Fumetsu mode now. The season got off to an uncharacteristically coherent and even brilliant start. But the default setting for this show is weird and clunky. Despite how it sounds that can sometimes be a charm point – too much polish isn’t always a good thing. I’m still …
So begins the war. The surprise invasion by the Yan army complicated things, but the main event remains Zhao vs. Qin. You have to feel for Li Mu here. Not only does he have two armies sandwiching him from east and west, he has an enemy of sorts in his own capital. Over and over …
Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun – 04 Middle school is having quite a season, between Sanda, Fumetsu, and this show. It’s a less-trafficked setting for anime than high school, obviously, but tends to offer less generic feed corn and more feels. That’s especially true with romcon of course. Just as with …
