Just as I start thinking that perhaps hating sports anime may be as silly as hating mecha, this happens. Most striking feature of Yowamushi Pedal is how annoyingly didactic it is. Even if we insult Initial D by comparison with its sport anime peers, we have to observe how unobtrusive …
read moreLate last year, a PV for Cinderella Girls was floated, made in iM@S TV anime style. I am sure every true fan had watched it already, but I wish to save a few screencaps, with appropriate saddness. Like the pilot of Rocket Girls, it is surely destined to remain …
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The best thing to be said about Suisei no Gargantia is that PIG's animation is top-notch, even if they tent to flaunt hair motion. Visuals are absolutely fabulous.
Other than the visuals, however, content is fairly light... Not light as in "fluff", but light as in "diet". The scope of …
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I'm going to reserve the judgement on the anime as a whole, primarily because I'm a victim of "poisoned by manga" syndrome. But to pick on one most unpleasant lapse, my favourite segment of visiting the candy store was butchered. In the manga, the pacing and fidelity were excellent. It …
read moreIn season's review:
Gin no Saji (Silver Spoon) was easily the best summer 2013 series that I watched. It was consistently entertaining and I was impressed with how Hachiken's character developed over the show's 11 episodes. Even the quandary with "Pork Bowl" ended up much better than I expected. That …read more
In the end, the protagonist is a bad person, and that is a problem that needs to be fixed before the communication and social adjustment.
The few final episodes tried to ground the charge of the nasty after 08 (with Kii-chan, lies about boyfriends and cheating against little kids). The …
read moreVery coincidentially to us watching Casshern Sins, Ledford licenses the original and Raymond Herrera's summary of it adds a whole lot of sense to the remake:
read more"Casshan" follows the adventures of Tetsuya Azuma, the son of the scientist responsible for creating Buraiking, an android that turns the robots of Earth …
Anime of the season, easily. Back when Moyashimon aired, I wanted it to be this. Instead, we've got leather-clad lesbians. Not that there's anything wrong with leather-clad lesbians, but there was nothing particularly interesting or moving about them. This, however, is real.
To be sure, the story of character growth …
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