It hasn’t escaped my notice that there’s an odd symmetry between the two Patron Pick winners, past and present, occupying Sunday nights on my schedule. Shoushimin Series (like Kusuriya no Hitorigogo, as I’ve noted more than once) is better when it’s about something. But Witch Watch is very much in the opposite camp. I find …
Welcome back for another episode of My Taste is Better Than Yours. This week Samu and I are back in JUMPing mode, as we take a first look at the two new Weekly Shounen Jump serializations Tomoshibi no Otr (Otr of the Flame) by Kawaguchi Yuki, and Nice Prison by Suganuma Tatsuya. Spoiler: it’s a …
It’s not been a great week for anime. Impressions: Better than the school arc at least, and certainly the current TBH episodes, but I’m getting pretty tired of the two minutes of the frog monsters every week as we wait for anybody to… you know… care about the swarm of giant amphibeans apparently roaming …
This was a Black Butler episode full of twists and turns. And they were an intriguing combination of the expected and unexpected. My working theory was that the whole curse premise was a chemical weapon scenario (I actually suggested a biological agent last week), and that the werewolf thing was a cover story. As such …
The first and third words of the title have been obvious from the beginning, but the middle finally got name dropped this week. All in all it was a less frenetic week exposition wise, which I’m heartily glad of. The excess of Hebinuma and Gwen in the A-part didn’t absolutely thrill me as I find …
This entire episode didn’t make an iota of sense. Impressions: This arc continues to be astonishingly terrible. The only slightly positive thing was that they finally animated an action scene again… but it was so horribly set up and pointless. I’ve gone all dark and angsty over my friend’s death, which is why I’m going …
