Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (“Sasami @ Unmotivated”) (Anime Network) is the latest show from director Akiyuki Shinbo, whose previous works I have considered brilliant but often unwatchable. The new show is strange, disturbing… Read more »
Some crazy fans have taken the OP for Sasami-san@Ganbaranai and replaced all the characters with characters from Madoka Magica (via Crunchyroll). The result looks amazingly good. It probably helps that… Read more »
Sasami-san@Ganbaranai has gotten noticeably darker with the appearance of Sasami’s dead mother. By now I’ve dropped the hypothesis that Sasami is an ordinary girl with Shinto-based delusions. This really is… Read more »
As I’ve said before, Akiyuki Shinbo is an enormously talented director but his work tends to leave me cold (with the major exception of Madoka Magica which is all-around amazing)…. Read more »
Looking back this was a fairly average year in anime. There was a lot of crap of course but there were also a fair number of shows that were well-made… Read more »
