Where’s Sherlock effing Holmes when you need him? I have a couple of primary thoughts in reflecting on the second episode of Shoushimin Series. First, would I be patient enough to give this series any runway if I didn’t have the Hyouka experience to draw on? And second, would I have given Hyouka any runway …
Anime Limited Announces New Titles & Reveals First Looks at Bleach, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War & Macross Plus: Sharon Apple Edition Blu-Rays for UK Release
The french division of Anime Limited, also known as All The Anime FR, made some pretty interesting announcements at Japan Expo in Paris, and (more importantly) some of those announcements will also be coming to the UK as confirmed by Anime Limited’s UK division. New titles include DEVILMAN crybaby, Tekkonkinkreet, as well as the Studio …
Too Many Loser Heroines #01 — Ma’am, This is a Denny’s
Nice garnish. Impressions: Another kind of throwback light novel adaptation. This time to that era of things with titles like “My Teenage Youth Drama Is So Cliche” or “I Have No Friends and My Classmates Exacerbate My Melodrama.” An insufferable, melodramatic prat that spends the entire thing self-narrating everything while veritable swarms of ostensibly quirky …
The Elusive Samurai #02 — The Candyland Dimension
Sure are a lot of beheadings in this show. The second episode of Sakuna managed to be even worse than the first. It’s amazing how hard PA Works is phoning it in. For reference, this is what the game looks like in its action scenes. And this is what the anime looks like. It’s …
Yuki Yuna is a Hero – Episode 11
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we return to a scene of epic tragedy, as the young two-time hero Togo faces off against all the forces of the cosmos. Everything she once believed in has been proven false; rather than noble defenders of her proud homeland, she has learned they are …
Why Does Nobody Remember #01 — Carefully Hidden Giant Open Pyramid
They’ve just got a glowing Excalibur in a giant pyramid right outside the front door? Impressions: Seven or eight years ago, this would have been just one of a half dozen indistinguishable light novel adaptations about a dude with a magic sword in a squad of action teenagers that are mostly hot babes. Nowadays, …