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 …
Someone please do something. All right, I lied. I knocked this out before I had to go out. To Be Hero will come when it comes. Impressions: Mostly because this episode was quite bad and there’s not all that much to say about it. The fire was a dude on magic fire. They defeated …
Probably could’ve used more tanuki ball jokes. I think I’ll just deal with 9-nine-‘s second episode after To Be Hero tonight since I need to recharge and reboot. I have glanced at it already and it’s less than ideal. Both will come a little late for social reasons. Impressions: Gee, I was getting extremely …
The old lady was creepier to be honest. Impressions: The horror and creeping dread is played up quite a bit, and fairly effectively, but I’ve got the protagonist-needs-to-show-some-damn-agency bug in my head at this point, and this one fails hard at that, so how much suspense really is there if you’re not actually going …
Those are certainly some faces. Impressions: And so we enter the awful part of the Saturday shows, though this one is just harmless dumb shoujo. Most everything in this episode is contrived to the point of ridiculous. He’s intimidating and everybody is terrified of him, and all the local girls are huge jerks except for …
