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…
Love Bullet Yurikuma Arashi (literally “Girls-lovebear Storm”) is perhaps the ultimate Kunihiko Ikuhara experience. Everything he has made in the last 20 years has been building up to this. Sailor Moon’s monster-of-the-week format; Utena’s abstract art and delicate cathedral like aesthetics (complete with spiral staircases); Penguindrum’s pursuit of survival against the threat of utter annihilation; it’s all here, and in ridiculously OTT quantities. Because of this, its almost a borderline self-parody of Ikuni works since we’ve come to expect all…
Despite the freezing rain that was pouring down over the city just after the new year began, I ultimately decided to drag my ass from the North Bronx down to the Village to watch “Song of the Sea,” despite not eating anything that day. Due to some issues with the train, I ended up missing the 2:30pm showing — though I forgot how to get to IFC Center anyway — so I resolved to spend my time at the Hudson…
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Aldnoah.Zero (wait for it) gets worse. This is not a surprise in the slightest. The time for praise has passed, the era of criticism is upon us. Buckle up. Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season is littered with plot-holes from here-on out, as compared to the little plot-hole rips the 1st season tried so very hard to ignore. One scene from the 1st season of Aldnoah.Zero completely contradicts a scene from this episode – the…
Absolute Duo New year, new season, new clusterfuck! Will we see any real improvement over last year’s fresh supply of flaming crap? Sadly no, as Absolute Duo feels like a sloppy seconds of all that went wrong in 2014. Magic school? CHECK. Weird girls from made-up European countries? CHECK. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka? CHEEEEEEECK. Well I sure picked a winner?!? DOUBLE CHECK AND MATE SUCKAH! In Jolly Old England (at least I think it is, Big Ben makes an appearance in the…
There was once a time where I liked and appreciated Aldnoah.Zero. That time has since passed, and new feelings have emerged to replace this, such as deep self-loathing, extreme embarrassment and undeniable shame. With the 1st season’s ending, the show ended on a climatic and somewhat unexpected note – Slaine murdering Inaho after Saazbaum murdered Asseylum. However, the hilarious nature of that ending has since been intensified with this latest episode of ‘Katsuhiko Takayama should stick to writing shota hentai’,…
Ohai, Cross Ange. Welcome back— OHMYGOD! WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS FAAAACE!? Before I even get to the story elements I have to say this episode was all kinds of atrocious in the animation department. Cross Ange ain’t the most spectacular looking broad, but yegads they turned Embryo into Bishounen Slenderman in that shot! Then we also factor in weird silhouettes that come out of nowhere (was some DRAGON person hiding in the resort house?), and Norma who when shot…
NOTE: This review was written in September and not posted until now. Year: 2013 Director: Shinobu Tagashira Studio: Zexcs Licensed By: Sentai Filmworks A show rarely comes along with such insult in its blood; Diabolik Lovers is 2013’s worst anime, something met with unanimous agreement. From its lack of plot to its creepy subtext, Dialovers is a trainwreck both as an anime and an adaptation. This show is diabolical, disgraceful and disgusting – not to mention painfully unerotic – and…