My Taste is Better Than Yours is back with another huge title, Urasawa Naoki’s Pluto. Already a manga institution, Pluto spawned an anime adaptation in 2023 – arguably the most anticipated (and best) in Netflix anime history. Samu and I give our thoughts on Urasawa’s work, how it reflects on the Tezuka original, and how …
Spring 2024 Check-in
Three weeks in (as I begin writing) I have a couple of thoughts on Spring 2024 in anime. First, this season is – on the whole – a bit better than I expected so far. My expectations were fairly low going in (despite a ton of series in the preview), so that doesn’t make it …
Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid (The Duke of Death and His Maid) Season 3 – 04
Don’t get me wrong – Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid is a very good series. But it’s for moments like this that the experience is really crafted. You can go through long stretches of- well, certainly not mediocrity, but pleasantness. Nothing exceptional, just breezy and accessible entertainment. But it does have these peaks every so …
Loser Ranger #04 — Handy Man
Low hanging pun fruit, I know. Impressions: It finally dipped its toes a little bit into that ultra violence needed to actually make the rangers seem somewhat psychotic. But just a little bit, because it was preceeded by them being comic relief, and their own reactions was that it was over the top and they were …
Anime girls in the rain
Rainy day over here so I decided to do an image board of anime girls with no umbrellas who got caught in the rain.
The Fable – 04
Another day, another Bubble series (one on the Patron Pick Ballot). I suspect if The Fable were airing on a different day it would probably be pretty safe, but Sundays are (as usual) brutal for me. That begs the question of course of why I couldn’t just cover this one a day or two late. …