Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation (Crunchyroll) features the hoary old trope of an eccentric amateur detective who solves murders that the clueless police would never be able to figure out for… Read more »
Much to my surpise the new anime series that I’m enjoying most is Utawarerumono The False Faces (Utawarerumono–Itsuwari no Kamen) (Crunchyroll), a fantasy-adventure in which a man finds himself in… Read more »
When the original Fate/stay night anime came out in 2006 I watched a couple of episodes and quickly dropped it. It didn’t seem very compelling and since it was from… Read more »
Rin-ne a.k.a. Kyoukai no Rinne (Crunchyroll) is a somewhat old-fashioned but very funny new anime series from one of the greatest living old masters of manga. Rumiko Takahashi was the… Read more »
I’ve seen quite a few shoujo romantic comedies but never one like My Love Story!! (Ore Monogatari!!) (Crunchyroll.) Takeo Gouda, the protagonist, is a big, dumb, homely lunk with a… Read more »
I was surprised that Kamisama Kiss 2 (Hulu) ended without resolving the story of Akura-Ou. In fact it left him pretty much where he started at the beginning of the… Read more »
Maria the Virgin Witch (Hulu) was a series that regularly exceeded my expectations but I was somewhat disappointed by the ending. When an anime is based on an ongoing manga… Read more »
Death Parade (Hulu) deserves a lot of praise. The writing is sharp and insightful. The production values are excellent. At the beginning I was afraid that it might turn into… Read more »
The final episode of Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! (Crunchyroll) was the strongest of the series, wrapping up the story with a logical and satisfying explanation of everything that… Read more »
Yona of the Dawn (Crunchyroll) had as good an ending as we could have reasonably hoped for. Since this is based on an ongoing manga, and has apparently been following… Read more »
