So I came down with the tag team combo of stomach flu and upper respiratory flu over the holidays, which meant it was time to bust out the to-watch list and marathon some anime to ease the pain. Baccano! was at the top of the list after I saw the intriguing first episode [...]
First things first - I can’t believe the numbnuts at NIS America decided to ditch the ethereal cover art of the JP version and go with a much more cartoony NA cover. What a waste. Maybe it was an American ‘Nice Boat’ effect, what with the piles of dead bodies and [...]
From the way it starts out, you’d expect Seirei no Moribito to be a no-holds-barred, ass-kicking affair, but many of the episodes are actually more slice-of-life than anything else. Fortunately, Chagum and Balsa have a much more exciting life than I do, and so while a few episodes may have been slower than I [...]
Star Ocean EX, Shining Tears x Wind, Tales of Eternia, Xenosaga…the list goes on. Game-to-anime adaptations have a history of major suckage, which was why the anime version of Gungrave was a odd exception. Bateszi’s review reminded me how awesome that show was…[cries manly tears].
The original game’s storyline ends differently [...]
While the first season of Zero no Tsukaima was hardly a masterpiece, I expected there to at least be a simple and well-executed plot. Unfortunately, what we got was some kind of horribly directed mess of a story that was so bad that it actually interfered with my enjoyment of this series. I [...]
Kaze no Stigma started out as a moderately promising show, but it went down the crapper after episode 7. The main character Kazuma is pretty much the only reason to watch this show, although Ayano has her moments every 5 episodes or so. I had really hoped that this show would focus on [...]
You can’t talk about School Days without talking about the ending, and TNK studio knew it from the start. While the exploits of Makoto and the spectacle of an ending may try your suspension of disbelief, the wounded emotions and the helpless anger felt real. I mentioned before that I felt School Days [...]
Just right off the bat, I read most of the manga before starting the anime, so naturally my experience will be different from those who never read the manga. With that said, I also enjoyed the anime more than the manga. In fact, when I first started the manga, I felt the story [...]
I didn’t blog any of the episodes, but I watched the whole season of Lucky Star. As an amalgamation of a slice of life comedy, an infomercial for The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, and a quiz of otaku culture, Lucky Star was a lot of things to a lot of people. Overall, I [...]
I am going to start by saying that there has to be a second season of this. I am just going to put my fingers in my ears, close my eyes, and chant that a second season is coming. Otherwise, the pacing of Zombie Loan makes absolutely no sense at all. What [...]
When I first heard about the drama drama of Hitohira, I was completely unenthusiastic about it. The last thing I wanted to see was some bumbling shy girl powering up and becoming a star under the spotlight. Fortunately, Hitohira was a rather nuanced story that focused more on relationships and moving forward in [...]
Gather ’round kiddos, as it’s time for a flashback scene into Kabitzin’s mysterious past. Once upon a time, our mutual friend Velius and I invited Kabitzin to join us in a round of Warlords Battlecry II, an excellent real-time strategy game which we had been enjoying. Kabitzin warned us that this would be [...]
Inspired by Jeff’s recent acquisition of a PS2 and positive first impression of Atelier Iris 3, I decided to give it a whirl as well, since Grim Grimoire isn’t readily available yet.
Though reviews are extremely mixed, I have to say that I am actually enjoying AI3 quite a bit. Being rather sick [...]
