Writing about this show is like pulling teeth. The lack of information about it outside of the staff made it seem kinda fun to do at first, but after three weeks of boring tedium spent with annoying characters who all wear eyeliner for no reason, the regret I feel in regards to not writing about Brynhildr in the Darkness (which is growing more and more idiotic every week) escalates. Well what happens this week on that most exciting action packed…
(AUTHOR’S NOTE: Last week I used the term “Avidya Zone” to describe the evil dome on the other side of town. From this point forward I will be using “Lightless Realm” which is what they use in the official Daisuki subs) Well last week’s episode was the usual blur of confusion, annoyance, and ambivalence I get from Mari Okada’s fine catalog of work. WILL THIS EPISODE BE AN IMPROVEMENT?!?! (nope) So anyway, Minashi, the jogger who was also out that…
If you were considering making the Clusterfuck as your go to overview for this season’s “fine”, but mostly awful, anime offerings, you probably noticed we didn’t cover every single show this spring. For the most part this was out of general indifference (who gives a crap about Kindaichi Case Files Returns?), overall disgust (Foggle picked Date-A-Live 2 over Fairy Tail, make your own conclusions), and too many similar titles (Dragon Collection? What’s that?). That brings us to this show, M3…
Been a while hasn’t it? When last I watched the unspeakable abomination that is Gatchaman Crowds, the show gave me one of the most mindbogglingly inept finales ever, rife with plot holes, characters shunted to the sides, and a final battle that was… not a final battle… at all. At that time, I prayed to the anime gods that such a disaster should never be repeated and I would never have to do Crowds-Sourcing ever again. …Since then, Tatsunoko has…
In a rather interesting development, Sunrise decided to get a leg up on the season by airing their new series “Keroro” two weeks early. Keroro Once upon a time, there was a little show called Sgt. Frog. Everybody said it was going to be the next big thing, that it was going to take America by storm, that you wouldn’t be able to escape seeing that little green bastard no matter how hard you tried…yeah that didn’t happen. ADV tried…
When I did my first writeup for Valvrave (episode 1 for the 2013 Spring Clusterfuck) I simply dismissed it as a standard Sunrise robot show. The plot was pretty basic: an angsty kid’s girlfriend dies a horrible death so for revenge he jumps into a nearby super robot, unwittingly turning himself into a monster as a result. If it had continued in that direction, the show would have probably been ok, utterly unmemorable, but ok. Alas… it didn’t. Said girlfriend…
So here it is, the final Valvrave. In 25 minutes, writer Ichiro Ookuchi will have to provide an ending that ties up all the loose ends, finally dispatch the villains in a satisfactory way, and explains what the hell was the deal with all those weird flash forwards the show gave us now and again. Unsurprisingly, he utterly fails at all three, suggesting that my fear last week of a Valvrave Final Plus may be warranted. We pick up where…
2013, when all is said and done, will probably be remembered as a slight improvement on its immediate predecessor. It gave us some instant classics (Kill la Kill, Samurai Flamenco, From The New World); some utter horseshit (Flowers of Evil, Il Sole Penetra Li Illusioni, Unbreakable Machine-Doll amongst other steaming garbage); and some memories that will stick with us for a very long time. One of the latter is the subject of this article, Valvrave The Liberator Season 1 Episode…
In this, the penultimate installment of Valvrave The Liberator, lots of ground has to be covered. This is not surprising as Valvrave, due to MBS’ apparent policy for Animeism shows to be in the twelve episode range (don’t be surprised if Kill La Kill only has 24 genuine eps) and its own oddball split season sked, is short one episode. Last week’s, while necessary to clear out all the secrets that Haruto, Shoko, and L-Elf were keeping from each other…
Last week’s episode of Valvrave was the Valvrave for people who hate Valvrave as hundreds of vapid teens were mowed down by underpaid government bureaucrats armed with submachine guns. It was disgusting, it was insipid, it was the most entertaining 24 minutes this morose lumbering trainwreck has yet produced. For my part, I can say that me and my colleagues in the Thaumatroop were quite entertained by the bloodbath, however judging from some random tweet I got after this week’s…