DISCLAIMER: Let me make perfectly clear that, contrary to popular belief, I do not hate every anime ever made. In fact off the top of my head, there are about twelve shows this year I enjoyed to a large degree. It just seems that I do, because as of late pretty much 90% of what Japan churns out every cour is bound to be shit on some level. Whether it be bad writing, bad animation, and/or overall indifference from a…
Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova 20 years in the future, humanity has fallen into utter disarray due to ecological disasters and the appearance of the Fleet of Fog, mysterious boats that have cut off all communication and sea transport in most of the Pacific. Enter Gunzo Chihaya, captain of a stolen Fog submarine and his crew of Gecko State and Final Fantasy X-2 rejects. Also on-board (literally) is Iona, a strange cold aloof girl, who just happens to be…
Remember the episodes where Aang didn’t appear, and we focused on somebody else like Zuko and Appa? Remember how those were probably some of the best episodes in the show, depending on how you viewed The Beach? This feels like one of them. It allows for the side characters to stretch with the lead out of the way. The show did a nice job focusing on how the North-South conflict was affecting everyone else, such as Bolin’s film career and…
Apparently Ryuuko’s outfit is not a Goku Uniform, it’s actually something called a Kamui. Please forgive my ignorance when writing last week’s article. Episode 2: So Sexy She Might Pass Out or So Sexy I’m Going To Faint or whatever the hell Going into this second installment, I was somewhat worried that Studio Trigger would not be able to keep up the sheer amount of energy, humor, and badassery that characterized the series premiere, but thankfully those fears were unfounded….
Issue #1 or “The Case of the Gentle Ghost Man!” The earliest episode in this feature is from the first half of the first season and was chosen specifically because it was the first episode to show the full potential of the series. While the six episodes before it are all good episodes well worthy of watching, it was really with “Dawn of the Dead Man!” that the show came into its own with much more going on…
So it’s come to this… weekly blogging about episodes of an anime. Well, if Dalek and Marquis can do it, then so can I definitely probably maybe! By the way, sorry if my gratuitous Spanish title makes no sense – I just like the way it rolls off the tongue. It took less than 90 seconds for me to fall in love with Kill la Kill. By the end of the first episode, I was infatuated. It’s probably unhealthy. But…
And so begins the first real part of this season’s Clusterfuck. There will probably only be one more unless an anime gets delayed or something. Beyond The Boundary So a guy saves a girl from falling down a school, and then he gets attacked for his efforts. Also, he has a not-love interest who hangs out with him out of some sort of pity. But the guy can regenerate his wounds due to being a fusion between a human and…
Last June, Gatchaman Crowds rolled onto our screens with a potentially interesting if… somewhat bizarre concept and execution. By September it had rolled off my screen leaving me so bloody angry and frustrated with one of the most choppy, inept finales since Flowers of Evil. In between there were several ups and downs. Some episodes were pretty good, others were utter shite. So for this final (and I mean final) edition of Crowds-Sourcing, I’ll be looking at what the show…
Well, this was a 180 from Civil Wars. Cool characters like Lin and General Iroh come back, while a political side is thrown into the conflict between Korra and Unalaq. Plenty of different perspectives are thrown into the fire so don’t we get saddled with teenagers who argue more than they actually bend. I know conflict is the soul of good storytelling, but conflict for conflict’s sake only adds to the tedium instead of avoids it. Thank the Gods that…
In many ways the Silver Age is looked down upon these days as a time when comics were moronic, sophomoric, and thought of as lesser entertainment. It was a time when unbelievable heroics and impossible villainy clashed together on an epic scale and when “comic book logic” became fully formed into what it is known today. But the one thing that held the Silver Age above any other era to this writer is that it was straightforward and it never…