This week we launch a new feature on My Taste is Better Than Yours: JUMPing to Conclusions. Whenever WSJ launches a new round of series, it’s a pretty big deal. As such, I thought Samu and I should weigh in with our first impressions of the new manga on the block (plus a sendoff for …
Let’s accentuate the positive – as of this episode Hina is no longer the most problematic character in Blue Box. I wish I could also eliminate the negative, but that’s asking too much. It usually is with Ao no Hako, because it demands that you take the bitter with the sweet. Even an ep like …
Status quo for Orb this week, pretty much. Better than the first few episodes after the timeskip, but I’m still quite detached from the events happening on-screen. Things aren’t as ridiculous as they were, which is good. But they’re quite conventional, which I don’t think is a great look for this series. To fall back …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re checking out a new production, as we explore the first episode of late-90s OVA Agent Aika. The show falls in a venerable tradition of fanservice-laden action-adventure projects that flourished following the widespread adoption of home VHS players, which allowed artists to bypass the strict …
This was an excellent episode of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, well up to the series’ usual standard. I would say it was pretty atypical in a number of ways, though. Rather than languid it was a taut, lean narrative. Most of the straight-up detective episodes have been less compelling than the slice of life ones, but …
Maybe cry some more, dudes. You’ve only seen this exact tragedy four times in the last 24 hours. Impressions: While Aquarion is threatening to tick up slightly, this was a big supposedly action packed episode, and it was awful enough for me to worry that this was the high point and not want to …
