Fall 2017 Anime:

Juuni Taisen was the first new series I tried this season and it’s become one of my favorites. It’s an action show that pulls no punches and really enjoys messing with audience expectations. The ending of the first episode was a genuine surprise, and the following episodes have refused to fall neatly into overly familiar or tropey ( Read more... )

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Konbini Kareshi is a slice of life high school romance that seems to focus more on the male perspective. It prominently features two couples but it looks like it might touch on more couples as well. The show is cute and sweet and has a “feel good” vibe. The drama never gets too serious (so far) but there’s enough conflict ( Read more... )

Fukumenkei Noise is one of my favorites this season. We need more shoujo romances like this, with cool, stylish art and awesome music and heroines who actually, you know, do stuff besides pine after guys (and to be clear, the heroine here does pine after a guy, but it’s definitely not the only thing she does, and she’s a refreshingly proactive ( Read more... )

This is literally the dryest season I’ve seen. Almost all of the shows I’m watching are carry-overs from last season (All-Out!, March Comes in Like a Lion, Iron-Blooded Orphans, Trickster, Twin Star Exorcists). And even among the “new” shows, all but one are simply new seasons of shows I already liked (Gintama, Yowamushi Pedal, Super Lovers). The ( Read more... )

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Yuri On Ice!! is, in a word, a gift. I’m sure most everyone has heard of it by now if not watched every available episode with rabid glee. So I’m not going to talk about its premise or anything like that. Here’s what I will talk about: This is the first show, in a very long time, that I have enjoyed so thoroughly. Back ( Read more... )

Summer 2016 Anime Season:

Orange is easily my favorite of the summer season. I’d been hearing about the manga for a long time now, and it was always on my list of “manga I need to read someday”. Then I heard they were making an anime so I decided to just wait for that. I know I can’t make an educated judgment on the show as an adaptation, since I ( Read more... )

Spring Anime Season 2016: Here’s what I’m watching

The Lost Village is at the top of my watch list this season (though to be totally fair, this is one of the weakest seasons I’ve seen since I started watching anime as it aired). It’s mysterious enough to keep you hooked and handles having a huge cast (thirty+ characters) fairly well. You won’t ( Read more... )

I just realized that I haven't posted here in forever about gaming and my progress in the Tales series, which is ironic since I started working through that series because some of you were such big fans of it ( Read more... )

Winter Anime Season 2016:

BBK/BRNK is an interesting series that I hesitate to call mecha. It involves giant robots, yes, but the series plays out a bit more like a kaiju story (the giant robots seem to be sentient and they tend to go on destructive rampages until stopped by other giant robots being controlled by people). But that’s a small part ( Read more... )

So here’s what I’m watching in the fall anime season:

Kindaichi Case Files Season 2 is, so far, very good. I ended up enjoying the first season quite a bit more than I initially thought. I still don’t like the cast nearly as much as the cast of Detective Conan, but dang, the cases in Kindaichi are fantastic. They’re almost always multi-episode ( Read more... )