Nagomi has dreamed of becoming a maid for as long as she can remember. There’s something just so magical about working in a maid café, isn’t there? You get to dress up all cute and learn fun dance moves. You can practice your singing and learn the ancient art of ketchup doodling. The other maids…
Titles: BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls’ Story- Genre: Sports!, drama, crime, kinda yuri but not really Episodes: 13 Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures The Birdie Wing narrative is unnecessarily complicated if you ask me. Eve is this golf prodigy in some European country who was taught by a mysterious mentor. She now does golf scams and plays…
Titles: Odd Taxi Genre: Drama, crime, mystery Episodes: 13 Studio: OLM, P.I.C.S. Who killed Yuki Mitsuya? Wait, don’t jump to conclusions, I’m doing a Twin Peaks analogy. We don’t even know for sure if Yuki Mitsuya is dead. There’s this idol group you see, Mystery Kiss, and the singers always wear masks but one of…
Titles: Shiguang Dailiren, Genre: Drama, crime, action, mystery, thriller, supernatural Episodes: 11 + special Studio: Studio LAN Photographs all have a little bit of magic in them, don’t they? They can freeze time in one specific place and preserve it forever. Well for a while a least. And these days, photos are everywhere. The world…
Titles: EX-ARM Genre: Action, Science-Fiction Episodes: 12 Studio: Visual Flight In 2014, a high school student named Akira Natsume endures a phobia of electrical devices while also being very good at diagnosing them. He leads an average, unfulfilling life, and resolves to change himself for the better and get a girlfriend after being motivated by…
Titles: Tokyo Revengers Genre: Time travel, delinquents, crime, action, drama Studio: LIDENFILMS Most of us have been there or maybe will get there someday. You wake up and you realize your life has gotten away from you. You use to have dreams, friends, a whole wide future in front of you but now, it’s all…
Titles: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Genre: Action, crime, urban, mystery Episodes: 12 Studio: Doga Kobo Ikebukuro is such a great place. Rent is relatively cheap, people help each other and although it may not be the easiest place to make a living, as long as you work hard there is always a way to make…
I remember trying to read Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys years ago and not really getting into it. I didn’t think it was bad or anything, just not for me. I even said as much to a few of my fellow bloggers. Well, am I ever ready to eat my words. I decided to give…
Titles: 异度侵入 ID:INVADED Genre: Criminal, Science Fiction, thriller, action, psychological, drama, serial killer Episodes: 13 Studio: NAZ Sakaido is a brilliant detective. He will put all of his powers of deduction to the test and risk life and limb to solve the mystery of Kaeru’s death. It’s his singular goal and nothing will stop him….
Titles: Akudama Drive Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Science Fiction, dystopia, kinda almost romance Episodes: 12 (and a recap) Studio: Studio Pierrot She was just an ordinary girl. Minding her own business and trying to get some delicious, delicious takoyaki. That’s all. Who knew that trying to return a 500 yen coin and save a cat…
Titles: BLACK LAGOON Genre: Action, crime, drama, adventure Episodes: 12 Studio: MADHOUSE Rokuro needs a change of pace. Sure his life is comfortable enough but he’s clearly being taken for granted at his jobs and his superiors consider him dispensable. Every day is just sort of the same without any excitement or surprises. Still, I…
I love it when I can use a quote from the episode as my post title! It makes me feel so professional for some reason. What can I say, it doesn’t take much with me! Also this is a very abrupt way to start a post. I got overexcited. Hello everyone. For this last episode…
This season of Psycho Pass is frustrating for me. There are some brilliant insights and promising pieces of world building but they get bogged down by a messy and overly complicated narrative or else squandered. But I’m not going to bore you with story structure today. I know most people aren’t really into that sort…
Hello everyone. Please bear with me this week. I am still in the midst of a huge cold and even watching Psycho Pass was a bit of a challenge. Matt, I’m going to have to rely on you for the deep insight even more than usual this week. Oh and if I say anything that…
I say this every week and every week I fail, still I’m going to try to keep this post to a reasonable size. At least on my part. I have been rambling on way too much! That doesn’t mean we’re going to skip over the important stuff, like for instance: Matt how are you? I’m…