Why are there so many Sunday shows this season? There’s seven shows today, plus the crow thing from yesterday. This will take a while. Impressions: I really think the whole “good guys are actually bad” thing would’ve worked a lot better if the baddies weren’t such jokes constantly making excuses and reasoning for why …
First Impressions – Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen
I think Mission: Yozakura Family is pretty much the definition of a mid-tier Weekly Shounen Jump property. Middle of the rankings (usually), middle of the ToC (usually), middling volume sales, middling reviews. Of course mid for WSJ is still pretty big for anybody else. As such it’s a surprise it took this long for Yozakura-san …
First Impressions – Tonari no Youkai-san
We sure have been talking about “that” niche a lot around here lately (I really do need to come up with an official name for it). And boy, if any show ever looked like central casting for it, Tonari no Yokai-san is that show. Honestly it almost seemed too on the money, a concern I …
First Impressions – The Fable
In terms of pre-season expectations, The Fable is the biggest premiere of the season so far. There have been qualifiers all along with me – the studio, the fact that I don’t know the source material, a director that hasn’t done much work in three decades. Add to that now we’re looking at a 25-episode …
The Monsters Next Door #01 — Handsy Cat
Existential Angst: The Anime. This isn’t the crow show. That one’s about a royal crow court. Again, NHK-only with no online streams, so apparently just in the wind right now, and I’ve got other things to do with my day. Like play Unicorn Overlord. Impressions: Not even good drama over it either. I suddenly …
The Fable #01 — Improper Ways to Store Ammo
A lot of those gun hiding places seem incredibly suspect. I’m not sure what the deal with the crow show is, but it’s an NHK-only show, and I get the impression that the old-school rippers no longer exist with just downloading streams being so much easier, so it may be in the void for …






