Everything must always lead back to high school. Impressions: Still not the most interesting episode, and not much liking that it seems like we’re completely abandoning the original premise of revenge against the rangers or their hypocrisy for a good while. The whole conceit that he was able to fit in with a highly …
Since the 1990s manga has been well populated by skillful teen detectives. Brilliant young investigators appear in Detective Conan, Puppet Master Sakon, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Detective Agency Q, The Detective is Already Dead, Pretty Boy Detective Club, CLAMP School Detectives, Detective Opera Milky Holmes, and many more manga titles. The one thing …
Witch Watch – 03 The nature of this season is such that the ballot – and bubble – are going to be crowded. Witch Watch is a show I had relatively low expectations for. I expected to have dropped it by this point, probably. But it’s definitely outperformed that, even if I’m not sure on …
Ann(e) Shirley has to learn to control her temper. After three eps Anne finally got an OP. And it comes complete with a flash-forward. That’s interesting in the context that as even I know, the source novels cover a not inconsiderable span of time. Does this mean Anne Shirley is going to skip far ahead …
It would be fair to say that my regard for Kuroshitsuji has grown over the years. Part of it is simply that the manga generally gets better as it progresses (it does). But it’s also the consistency and self-assuredness of it – you won’t find many series so confident and self-aware of their strengths. And …
We seem to be developing a bit of a similar syndrome here to something like Hourou Musuko. That is, an adaptation where new viewers think it’s great but manga readers insist they don’t, actually. When a series is trying to adapt 11 volumes (and counting) in 13 episodes that sort of thing is going to …
