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 …
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 …
I miss when this was about superheroes. Impressions: There was a real missed opportunity here to characterize her being treated by cultists with PTSD rather than being all goofy and silly about it. That’d have also been a good vector and excuse for her to shy away from going back to deal with the …
This show has lost whatever thread it ever had. Impressions: This episode was quite bizarre. It starts out with a minute and half music video of a dude slowly walking towards the camera during a mass shooting, spends the next fifteen minutes in a briefing, and then ends with a random SWAT team getting …
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re barreling into a brand new production, as we continue to enjoy the fruits of this delightfully rock band-rich era of animation. This time we’re checking out the currently ongoing Rock is a Lady’s Modesty, a show whose title alone promises a culture clash between …
Well, it’s really starting to hit the fan now. We’re in full-on exposition mode with Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, and it’s totally working for me. Mainly because it’s about time – 40 episodes of setup is plenty – but also because this series is invariably better when it’s about something significant. You have to forgive the …
