And what an ending it was. I watched a few epic endings in my anime-watching career, and this one was right there, or at least felt that way - in an anime about cute girls doing nothing, and which had no story. In Azumanga, the graduation was the linchpin, but in …
read moreFirst of all, Dog Days is available in Ireland.
But aside from that, I had a very bad luck with Crunchyroll ads for quite a while. They used to show decent ads now and then (unless it's my faulty memory), but I think that I might've blocked their ad provider …
read moreI'm going to be away for a week, travelling to Ireland for a business meeting. Ireland is an semi-independent country, affiliated with the European Empire. Naturally, Crunchyroll isn't going to work (even if I had time for it).
As a blogger, I received a push for VIZ streaming. Pushed back …
read moreWhile I ignored PBC by accident, Eureka 7 AO was shunned at Ani-nouto explicitly, after I decided that the original was too gritty. Still, Vuc and CKS seem to like it enough to give it "show of season" (over Jinrui et al). In this context, Reckoner's piece for The Behind …
read moreOne of Omni's minions reports that ending was ok:
read moreA wonderful ending. Though I was pretty down on last’s weeks episode, and was correspondingly worried coming into this one, I must say that the show recovered nicely and ended the series in true Rinne no Lagrange form. It was …
In a post about the body-swapping episode:
Believe it or not, this is how body swapping should be instead of shoving a lot of drama.
Hahaha! At this point, a dig at Kokoro Connect is unsporting, but I'll take it.
P.S. The link was noted before, but Chikorita is …
read moreThis one was blogged, but I managed to tune out. However, I gave it a review after seeing it at the club.
At the core, it's a sitcom with somewhat unattractive characters, but it rolls down pretty smoothly. The major attraction is the film: Panda running after a butterfly, etc …
read moreIn short, he liked it, somewhat unexpectedly.
read moreAs I said earlier, this isn’t Shakespeare. It follows the conventions of a fighting anime quite closely. However so far this is turning out to be one of the finest examples of the genre with a much higher level of plotting and …