This is how streaming works, right? This premiered the first two episodes on Youtube a couple weeks back, but I wasn’t paying attention. It actually begins airing on July 7th, so the third episode won’t be until the 21st. Impressions: It’s weird to have shows about being an idol streamer but being kicked out …
Tonari no Youkai-san has already sported a pretty yawning tonal gap over its first eleven episodes. Just between the two main wings of the story (Mu-chan/Jirou and Buchio/Takumi et al) the difference is quite stark. So as dark and violent as this episode got, it doesn’t really come as a surprise. Especially given that it …
This has certainly developed into one of the more interesting and even thought-provoking series of the season. By anime (less so manga) standards The Fable is pretty unsparing in its depiction of the yakuza and those who people it. There’s an element of fantasy here, no doubt, but not a lot of whitewashing. As I’ve …
Wakamiya may just be entering magnificent bastard territory. Though some of you are surely tired of my repeating it by now, Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai is really great. It’s great because it doesn’t just do one thing well, but a bunch – and exceptionally, too. It’s clear that Abe Chisato’s writing is spectacular – …
Maybe stop giving speeches for fifteen seconds. Impressions: The writing’s not getting any more cohesive at any point. Whether it’s a dude getting his lungs evaporated and then sitting up a couple minutes later to give a speech about how he was still in on the big distraction plan, to an exceptionally long flashback …
For many series, one might find it unusual to dedicate the entire finale to matters that had almost nothing to do with the seasonal plot. But Kuroshitsuji marches to its own drummer, of that there can be no doubt. It’s always taken unconventional turns when it comes to narrative structure, and its story arcs almost …
