The issue right now is too much sucking. Impressions: We move on from the most vampire-free generic beach multi episode arc to… an utterly banal vampire-free generic school festival multi episode arc. The bad cliches will continue until morale improves, it seems. Or more accurately, until the episode count reaches its limit. Like the …
Spy X Family Season 3 – 10 I knew we were in for a down week on Spy X Family based on the preview. Not many series are as predictable quality-wise as this one – if you know the basic premise you can generally guess what you’re going to get. But given how low this …
Where was that scorecard again? There are weeks when the “historical” part of Kingdom’s historical battle seinen subgenre really comes to the fore. I won’t pretend to understand more than a tiny fraction of the complexities of ancient Chinese ethno-politics and military history. But the names being dropped this week are a very real part …
On the plus side, the whole Mimori-Hirotoshi thing seems pretty much over. Small blessings, then, as there’s not a lot else in the current arc that’s clicking for me. I do feel for Fushi in his Sisyphean struggle with the injustice of existence (much more than with the Nokkers). But Fumetsu is in the mode …
I recorded a new video expressing my initial thoughts on the Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution/Culling Game movie and some of my latest anime purchases.
The rules are a little bit different with romcoms than some genres. Especially with relatively short (10 volume) series like this one, a survey course of the tropes is perfectly fine. Part of the experience is seeing what sort of treatment romcom standards get. Be they holidays, situations, secondary relationships – it’s the execution that …
