Review: The other magical girl show this season @ 2011-02-12 23:21:23

The harem comedy is a thing of tradition. Every season needs one, and all of them without question wind up more or less being the same thing. There will be an onsen episode and/or a beach episode. The protagonist will be semi-secretly lecherous and o...

Review: Exploring bold new frontier in making magical girl shows uncomfortable to watch @ 2011-02-10 17:24:09

By now we're all familiar with SHAFT and the things they do. They're not renowned for stellar production values. Nor are they known for the faithfulness of their adaptations. Indeed, even their original stories leave much to be desired. What SHAFT do...

Review: An anime that finally earns a Gold Star @ 2010-04-03 20:35:11

Up front I'll just start off getting to the point, this anime was good. Those of you who are familiar with what we do will know that we don’t throw around the G-word lightly. In retrospect I feel bad that we almost didn’t watch this show, we would ha...

Review: "I still don't know what this show is about" @ 2010-03-13 07:35:26

It's quite an impressive talent, being able to take an idea, apply a Japanese spin to it and then come up with something quite different as the sum of all parts. In Japan's case however it's often much like playing Russian roulette, there's a chance ...

Review: An Anime that's finally honest with itself and its intended target audience @ 2010-03-11 23:22:19

While there's very little excuse for the tardiness of the rest of the reviews this season we do actually have a valid reason for the delay on Seikon no Qwaser, we simply had to wait for the directors cut of the show to be available for us to have any...

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