Once upon a time there was a show called Gatchaman Crowds. It was terribad. I blogged it. I hated myself afterwards. When it ended, I hoped to never see it again. And for a while it seemed like that was that. The show got meh ratings, did meh business, and annoyed more people than made fans (and those who did like it, hated it by the end anyway). We moved on, Crowds just seemed to go away. …but apparently meh…
I haven’t stopped I’m still doing these! I’m really sorry that I didn’t put out issue reviews these last three weeks, especially since I only just started doing them. I’m afraid that the combination of extremely long issues, more important priorities and responsibilities to my work and my family, and being overseas with no access to my Vizmanga account or decent enough internet to load a single page of manga in less than ten minutes kind of made my ability…
In this week’s Jump, the Uchiha have an awkward family reunion, Chitoge and Onodera have an embarrassingly friendly chat about how each of their relationships with their crush (who happens to be the same person) is going, and a shit ton of secondary characters who we haven’t seen in a long, long, long, looooooonnnggg time come back in…pretty much every series in this issue, actually. All this and more, After the Jump! Weekly Shonen Jump: 2015, Issue No. 27 World…
So remember when I wrote that review of a bunch of currently-running manga chapters back in January? Remember how I said that I was going to do those every month and how I never followed up on that? Yeah…my bad. I got caught up in real-world shenanigans and the backlog of material I wanted to cover grew so big that I the task of going back to it seemed daunting. So, I’ve decided to skip writing about the manga chapters…
Preface Thank you for purchasing a copy of my latest academic text, Who Is Imouto? – A Critical Analysis. This is an expanded and refined version of my college dissertation, Imouto: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, And How. As you are probably well aware, I graduated with high honors from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and am a verified expert in the field of Imoutology. This thesis is the product of more than a year’s hard…
After a slightly disappointing episode last week, Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season this week follows the previous episode in terms of pacing and tone, leaving the promise of more hilarious antics to be shown next week. In this week’s episode, however, we have a lack of Slaine once again, Inaho and Rayet bonding over angst and superpowers, and Lemrina being a little shit. Fun times. The Vers Count taken hostage last week, Count Mazuurek, is interrogated by Inaho and Rayet this week…
Unfortunately (or fortunately, if you’re me), Aldnoah.Zero decided to take this week easy on its viewers, so this review will be quite short, as not much happened. Luckily enough, Aldnoah did not hit a new low today, as the show took time to reintroduce Yuki, Inaho’s sister, and Marito, the best girl of Aldnoah‘s 1st season. Marito now suffers from a new form of post-traumatic stress disorder, in which the brain deliberately triggers distressing imagery when facing danger, even though…
In a surprise departure from its usual (and increasingly annoying) format, Lesbear Storm spends this week’s episode on trying to explain what the fuck is going on in this show. To no surprise, it does so in an incredibly silly roundabout way, because I am beginning to believe even Ikuni doesn’t know what the fuck is going on in Yurikuma Arashi and is expecting us to just buy into symbolism. So in a magical fairy kingdom ruled by humanoid…
I read manga. I read a lot of manga. And I mean A LOT. While I can’t seem to keep up with many anime per season and end up dropping most of what I start, with manga I’m up to reading about 60 currently-running series and that number will probably increase as I get more into the extensive list of stuff I’ve long had on my backlog. And now, it’s finally time for manga to put my passion for manga…
I feel like a broken record. Every time I say Aldnoah.Zero has reached a new low, the next episode manages to make that low even lower. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. This episode opens up with a chess game between Inaho and Magbaredge ripped straight out of Terror in Resonance, and Magbaredge uses this to place Inaho into a squadron to attack the Vers Empire in a later assignment. However, the show surprisingly takes time to explain its retcon…