This episode was the equivalent of packing peanuts. Impressions: Between the two minutes of recap, seeing the same flashbacks at least three times, and the constant trips to the peanut gallery to listen to completely random people announce and explain everything that was going on, I think the actual fighting in this episode comprised …
It’s got nothing on Yatagarasu, of course, but The Fable had an Olympic hiatus too. While Sundays are by far my busiest days of the anime week in recent years and my general reaction to such developments is that I can use the break, I certainly missed it. The Fable is very good indeed – …
We need to talk about good boys for a minute. So, for the first time with Make Heroine ga Oosugiru, I was picking up a bit of a True Tears vibe this week. I imagine most will dismiss that out of hand based on the admittedly stark tonal difference between the two series. But they …
First of all, it’s incredibly nice to have Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai back. But damn – this is our first episode in a month. And before that, there’d been none since June 22. When you’re talking about 7 out of 8 weeks being absent, that’s almost at the point of being a split cour. …
One of the interesting by-products of Matsui Yuusei’s writing style is that a series like The Elusive Samurai doesn’t follow the usual patterns. Normally in this sort of story you have a kind of ebb and flow between dark and serious events, action, and breather chapters. This episode seemed like the latter, but that’s not …
At least it wasn’t full body horror… yet. Impressions: This episode definitely lost all of what little steam it had in the middle when the last of the kids squad in the opening showed up and instead of focusing on the fight, it got distracted by an over five minute cutaway to the peanut gallery …
