How Much is an Euler? 99 cents! Does that make sense? No? Well, neither does this show. When the latest anime adaptation of the Monogatari series was released this Fall, my expectations were low. I mean, I hate this series. I only watch it because I hang out with Dalek and Marquis, and those two are utter sadists who love the pain that accompanies viewing this all style, no substance dreck. But we aren’t talking about the show as a…
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…
Welcome one and all, to the 12 Days of Anime. 2015 was a spastic year for us fans, but we persevered. And we witnessed things you wouldn’t believe… Hey, remember Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Because I barely do. On the top of my mind, I can recall an albino boy brushing his teeth, and something about this one girl who carried a giant sack around her. I also remember it taking so…
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…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ll be adding Shadow’s entries later this weekend hopefully. Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water Greetings all and welcome to the umpteenth edition of AR’s Anime Clusterfuck, in which we once again probe the dark crevice that is modern television anime and end up with something long and yucky! And what better way to start this off than yet ANOTHER show about magic schools and bitchy pink haired tsunderes!………goddammit. So after the lamest apocalypse ever, a…
I wake up after discussing my dissertation on why Earthbound is capitalist propaganda when my roommate bumps my head, telling me “Jim, you gotta watch this show called Steven Universe!” What the hell is a Steven Universe, I asked. Why should a masculine Greek name encompass all of existence? I made a quip about how Steven Universe is clearly controlling of Jane Galaxy or Fujiko Nebula. My roommate ignored me, opened up their self-made laptop, and showed me said Steven…
Bakuman is back! Kind of. Sorta of. Two prequel chapters will be run in this issue and the next, focusing on the two leads’ lives in middle school, before the start of the series. I’ll save my thoughts on it for it’s section proper, but I have to say, it’s nice to see Ohba and Obata collaborating again. As it is knowing that they’ll soon be working on a new ongoing series again for the first time since Bakuman ended…
So I’ve been slacking off on some anime recently. Haven’t watched the latest Durarara episode. Yet to see Shimoneta beyond the first few episodes. And don’t even talk to me about Overlord. But there’s one show that has confused me so much that I must witness it week after week hoping for an answer but only receiving a sucker punch. This show was not just bad, but horrifying in its fumbles and mistakes, creating a world without human emotion and…
Guess who’s back! Sorry for the long absence and the missed reviews. I’ve had a lot on my plate these last couple of weeks, from finishing up work on an internship to going back to school, among a slew of other minor inconveniences. But I’m ready and raring to go again! Hopefully I have these up on time for the remainder of the year, though I can’t keep any promises. It’s a bummer I missed the last couple of issues,…
I was not surprised by this announcement. Yu-Gi-Oh! has been a permanent fixture of the english Shonen Jump since the very beginning. Viz replacing ZeXal with Arc-V was a foregone conclusion. It’s the fact that we’re getting it before a Straighten Up! or Best Blue announcement, much less Assassination Classroom, that rather irks me. Sure, it isn’t like Arc-V is taking up a weekly spot; it’s only taking over ZeXal’s former place as a monthly series. But I really want…