What if I told you the most iconic freedom fighter in anime history… never understood freedom at all? That Attack on Titan, the show that roared about “breaking free of the walls,” spent ten years marching toward liberation — only to chain itself to a new kind of cage? Yeah. Let’s talk about it. “I …
The deeper we wade into this arc, the more I’m convinced that Nursie is somewhere close to the heart of this mystery. That she’s suspicious is so obvious that it almost makes you believe it has to be a feint, but… I don’t think so. She’s drugging Jougorou – and in more than just the …
It’s probably a measure of Kuroshitsuji’s commercial heft that it gets more episodes than it needs, and perhaps even wants. Most anime adaptations have to trim and rush to fit the essential material into their episode count. We’ve had long recaps all season, and the past two have been well over five minutes. That’s a …
I’m rooting for genocide at this point. Impressions: Well, that was worth the wait. No, wait. The opposite. This episode was godawful on every level. Ostensibly about the twink dude, but it’s just that he has some loose connection to a place they want to go to, so it’s an excuse to go home …
There was a stretch in the middle where I was convinced the unavoidably frantic pacing was going to hamstring Kowloon Generic Romance pretty hard. But it’s recovered to the point where things feel quite natural again. Naturally that’s delightful, because everything else about the series is top-notch. Director Iwasaki Yoshiaki and writer Tanaka Jin are …
The Nice writing wasn’t great, but these last two arcs have been… worse. I have no idea what’s up with Lazarus’s 10th episode. It was early ‘airing’ on some Indonesian webcast anyway. Well, I’ll get to it when I get to it. Not that I can say I’m looking forward to it much at any …
