Natsuiro Kiseki–Anime Early Impressions
There’s a lot that’s praiseworthy about Natsuiro Kiseki (“Summer-colored Miracle”) but my feelings are rather mixed. Let’s start with the good part. This is a bright, cheerful and upbeat mix… Read more »
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Polar Bear Cafe–Anime Early Impressions
Polar Bear Cafe (Crunchyroll link) is a gag anime featuring a kind of low-key offbeat humor that I find hilarious. This sort of thing is very much a matter of… Read more »
Space Brothers–Anime Early Impressions
Space Brothers (Uchuu Kyoudai) (Crunchyroll link) reminds me a lot of Planetes, a show that I liked a great deal. Both are high-quality high-minded seinen stories about near-future space exploration…. Read more »
Folktales from Japan–Anime Early Impressions
Folktales from Japan (Furusato Saisei Nippon no Mukashi Banashi) (Crunchyroll link) is an anime series that is probably not to everyone’s taste. This is a kodomo anime–intended for elementary or… Read more »
Bodacious Space Pirates–Midseason Thoughts
Steven says that though the show doesn’t pass the refrigerator test he likes it anyway. That sounds about right to me. I found that I was able to relax and… Read more »
Bakuman 2 Ends
Bakuman, an anime based on a shounen manga about the making of a shounen manga, just finished its second season. I recommended the first season for anyone interested in the… Read more »
Inu x Boku SS Ends
It seems that most of the Winter 2012 anime series that I’ve had kind words for have been continuations or sequels–but here’s an exception, a self-contained single-cour series. Initially I… Read more »
Chihayafuru Ends
I started Chihayafuru late and was slow to warm to it, but it finally won me over. It is now one of my favorites among recent anime series. This is… Read more »
Shakugan no Shana Final Ends
It probably says something about the general weakness of the Winter 2012 anime season that the show I found myself looking forward to most was the tail end of a… Read more »
Nisemonogatari Ends
Well I finally got around to watching the final episode of this show. The fact that it took me this long says something about how disappointed I am with it…. Read more »