Everyone, we have found our Chopper, and he is adorable. In 2023, the live-action adaptation of One Piece premiered on Netflix, and despite what many fans feared, it didn’t stink! In fact, it was one of the most faithful and enjoyable live-action adaptations of an anime that many had ever seen. Thus, it was inevitable …
Loser Ranger #20 — Flimsy Pretenses
People in this world kind of deserve it at this point. Impressions: Better to be going too fast than dragging things out, Lazarus, but these last couple episodes have been a little too breakneck for my tastes, especially with the group putting up not even the slightest pretense before mass murdering everybody at the very first opportunity …
Patron Pick Spring 2025: Witch Watch – 09
I gotta say, this ep of Witch Watch has to be one of the all-time “If you know you know” moments in anime history. Any Japanese person under 50 certainly will get the joke in the second chapter. But almost no foreigners will. The thing is this, though – if you’re one of the .1% …
Shoushimin Series 2nd Season – 09
There’s no denying Shoushimin Series has been much more interesting to me this season. And judging by aggregator scores it seems I’m not alone in that reaction. I was quite worried when the Billy Mumphrey firestarter arc ended, as that seemed to herald a return to focus solely on Osanai and Kobato. But while that’s …
Kuroshitsuji: Midori no Majo-hen – 09
One little word… Long recaps are kind of baked in to my perspective on Black Butler at this point. They’re annoying, but some series just do them (Boku no Hero Academia is another). They don’t come as a surprise, and are really the only consistent negative I can point to in these otherwise superb past …
Kowloon Generic Romance – 09
We still have a month to go, more or less. But in the end I think Spring 2025 is likely to end up right where it looked like at the beginning, with Kowloon Generic Romance as the clear best series. There have been bolts of genius elsewhere, and some pacing issues here. But in the …