Setting aside the blandness of the production, The Fable has pretty much won me over. There are a few quite good yakuza anime to be found from the past few years, but they tend to run pretty hard towards the fairy tale side of the equation. The Fable is theoretically a comedy, but it’s an …
Trust is a huge theme in Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai, the best show of the season and one that will be deeply embedded in the year-end reckoning posts. And not to come over all X-Files, but with very few exceptions “trust no one” seems to be the order of the day. I’m starting to …
As a series, Black Butler has an extremely wide tonal range. It can go from extremely dark and tragic (like much of Circus-hen) to very lighthearted and goofy – too much so with certain characters. But it can also take the middle path with extremely good effect, and that’s what it’s doing with Kishuku Gakkou-hen …
Until Wednesday, May 22nd at 6pm Japan time, second-hand retailer Suruga-ya is offering free international shipping. That’s a discount that could save American collectors anywhere from $30 to $300 off shipping fees! I took advantage of the opportunity, and recorded a show-and-tell with the items I purchased for my own collection.
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to stop back in with Mitsumi and the gang from Skip and Loafer, and see what those crazy kids are getting up to now. After half a season of largely warm and fuzzy adventures, last episode saw Mitsumi and Shima experiencing …
Ah, this chapter. Now that the anime has reached this point in the story, I thought once more about Season 4, Episode 17. The one time Aoyama Yuga was really at the center of the story. At the time (when I knew none of what I now know about him) I wrote this: As Deku …
