Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba S4 Ep 3 Review Now that Tanjiro is healed, it’s time for him to commence his anime training arc! To prepare for the final battle against Muzan, the Demon Slayer forces everyone to endure training from the Hashira. The reason boils down to the idea of the chain only being …
YouTube preview is here! The more things change, the more they stay the same? 2024 continues to look like a pretty average anime year, charitably. But at least it’s consistent in some ways. Spring had 54 shows, last summer the same, and as I begin writing this preview Summer 2024 has 53 52. Of course, …
Boy, this laser sure got impotent quick. Impressions: Be careful what you wish for. We mostly drop the whole stupid training test thing to focus on the actual supposedly dangerous monster rampaging around, and get mostly blue balled. Didn’t it vaporize some girl’s head last episode alongside a gratuitous (nonsensical) torture scene of an …
Less is more. It’s almost as if someone was listening. After bemoaning the almost total absence of Buchio (and his wing of the narrative building) these last two weeks, he and Takumi had the entire episode (almost) today. And it did nothing but confirm my belief that for me at least, Tonari no Youkai-san is …
It’s a dangerous game The Fable is playing, turning Akira (since the Boss calls him that I guess I will too – maybe it’s really his name?) into a sympathetic figure. Just because he’s emotionless about killing dozens of people – and most of them are mob-related – that doesn’t absolve him from blame for …
The series Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai calls to mind – Seirei no Moribito, Akatsuki no Yona – reflect the elite company it keeps. Director Kyougoku Yoshiaki did work on Moribito in fact (as a key animator). And of course Yona was like this series a product of the massively underrated Studio Pierrot. So the …
