The great mystery of “Kyoto Douran” remains the question of its length. I’m trying to wrap my head around the idea that they might try to do the whole Kyoto arc in 23 episodes, because absent any confirmation to the contrary that option remains on the table. I mean, it just doesn’t seem possible – …
Welcome all, to book 2 of my Horus Heresy book club, False Gods by Graham McNeill! Where our previous book setup the 31st Millennium, the Empire, and Horus Lupercal himself, this one takes us through the fall itself, how and why it happens, and the beginnings of what comes next. Overall, False God’s felt like …
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Short Synopsis: A gifted orphan with a knack for astronomy comes into contact with a heliocentric heretic. Wooper: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth has yet another of this season’s dual episode premieres, and the first of those two episodes is slow enough that you really ought …
Just left that mess, huh? Completely forgot this existed. Internalized it as a Friday show for some reason. Impressions: Not an improvement on the first episode. How many more times is the dude going to run away, and two seconds later, regret running away and change his mind? Because that’s all he did last …
If you say so. Impressions: It’s still decent enough, certainly one of the very, very few well animated shows this season, and had 98% less sexual assault than last week, but christ, would it be improved if the dude was jettisoned from the show via canon directly into the side of a mountain. Lord …
After a two-week hiatus, Sengoku Youko returns at last. And doesn’t skip a beat, naturally. As I noted before the break , Mizukami Satoshi has the remarkable ability to write plot-driven series that act like character-driven series. It doesn’t seem to matter how much goes down in any given episode, the story always remains about …
