Likely systems

I must say, Rudo, you aren’t the only one to have that thought about Jabber. Battle shounen has a long history of masochist badasses vexing young boys (Hisoka of course being first and foremost among them). It’s only through an unfortunate street encounter topside that Rudo even knows that that word means (we don’t know …

Kore ga ii desu yo. Yes, this is the Witch Watch that works best for me. I love romcoms, and I like both couples in play here. But this show thrives on pure goofiness. It’s not that it’s bad at being a romcom, or even at being “serious”. Shinohara Kenta is too good a writer …

Another absolute gem of a Hanako-kun episode to mostly be ignored (or at least not discussed). This series has been on an incredible run lately – some of the absolute best material of the entire series, and that’s a high bar. It strikes me that G Fantasy is incredibly lucky to have its two signature …

Yuki to Kimi to. With You and the Rain has been on a pretty impressive run the past few weeks. This episode was possibly the weakest of the series to day, though. If this show has a fault it’s a tendency to get a bit too precious and self-indulgent. It achieves a kind of authentic …

I don’t want to say “losing interest”, but it’s looking more and more to me as if Sono Bisque Doll and I are two ships passing in the night. It just doesn’t seem to care that much about the relationships, and about Wakana even less. Mostly it just wants to fetishize Marin, go full otaku …