22/7 I don’t know what to make of a first episode where a girl with crippling depression forced out of her job has to join an idol group to have her emotional needs met. It’s almost like someone taped the scripts to two completely different shows together. One minute, she’s off on a rant about adults and their lies. The next, a scene all about gorillas. 22/7 really tries to have it both ways by portraying how much teenage life…
La Bizzare Aventura di GioGio Cinco Parte: Vento Aureo Its the Giorno show! Hoooray! The bastard son of Dio Brando/Jonathan Joestar is alive and well and driving cabs in Naples. But most importantly… he tastes like A LIAR! Of course when you’re being tongued by by a man in white Gucci pretty much anything tastes like a liar. In other news, Koichi is back!…because Josuke was obviously too busy beating up delinquents who disssed his haircut, and Yukako still wants…
100 Sleeping Princes and The Kingdom of Dreams: The Animation I can only imagine this show came about because some fujoshi at a video game company thought “What if…Kirby but they were all bishies.” Now 20 years ago this would have gotten you an instant pinkslip, but such is Japan’s incresasing degree of depravity that it actually got made. And somewhere along the way that half-assed premise was deemed worthy of a tv adaptation so here we are with this…
Hello, scoundrels. Hope you’ve been well, and watching good Christian entertainment like Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party. As a reward for your good behavior, here is the new clusterfuck. Disobey in the future, and charlatans will lick your eyeballs clean. The Ancient Magus’ Bride Boy does this look familiar. So familiar that I feel like wrote it up LAST YEAR. Whoops. – Lord Dalek Black Clover Oh boy, more shonen shit! More obnoxious, irritating, generic pablum destined to be…
Aho-Girl Aho-Girl succeeds where Aoyama-kun fails. It takes a character defined by their exaggerated quirk and pushes the limits of what you can do with them in creative and unpredictable ways. Maybe it’s helped by its 11-minute runtime, but I didn’t tire of the comedy even though there’s a clear formula: Yoshiko does or says something stupid, there’s a banana joke or sexual harassment or both, and then Akkun hits her. It’s a really obvious formulaic structure that they just…
Hello. I welcome you to Spring 2017 Clusterfuck of Japanese Animations. Please peruse to your delight. Alice & Zoroku Oh boy its another “Girl escapes from a secret organization and has a random encounter on a rain swept road” show! What? You didn’t know about this genre before? Well neither did I, but then we had that shitty Brynhildr show and that awesome Flip Flappers show so somebody at the ever awful J.C. Staff decided “Hey! Here’s something we haven’t…
This season’s clusterfuck dedicated to the memory of David Robert Jones. May your spirit soar higher than 100,000 miles while your spaceship knows which way to go. Active Raid: Special Public Security Fifth Division Third Mobile Assault Eighth Unit That’s A Lot Of Words Seriously Who Thought This Was A Good Idea? Active Raid! An anime with a title that sounds like a brand of either roll-on deodorant or insecticide! After yesterday’s crap I watched, how bad could it be???…
Oh yeah I completely forgot about this didn’t I? So as you may know, I kinda stopped blogging Gatchaman Crowds Insight after 2 ½ episodes last summer. I blame it on a combination of general procrastination, overwork on various other projects (many of which are also incomplete), and that lousy behind-the-scenes soap opera that exploded between myself, Mahou, Foggle, and a certain youknowwho who’s forcing me to write this shitty article and has generally been the source of everything that…
Every year there is that one weird slice of life comedy show that becomes inexplicably popular for a half dozen or so weeks before being immediately discarded with yesterday’s trash. You know the kind. Series like Watamote, Sabage-bu, and the granddaddy of them all, Lucky Star. And in the summer of 2015, suddenly my twitter feed was filled with .gifs of a moe blob wearing a gerbil costume and drooling like a maniac. Himouto Umaru-Chan had arrived. This is a…
Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon I looked at the Japanese title for this show and thought this was another season of Health and Physical Fitness for 35 Year Olds, so I’m both pleasantly surprised and disappointed to see this is only moderately sexual. Instead, it’s just another one of the LN shows about a guy and his quest for the regular mix of magic and poon. There’s really no structural difference between this and the other two, Asterisk War…