Genre : Fantasy, Adventure, action, political Studio: A-1 Pictures I realized something for the first time this week. I watch Grancrest on Friday evenings after work, then I write the post the same day because my weekends are pretty busy. Also it’s Friday evening so I’ll usually have a glass of wine or scotch or…
Genre : Fantasy, Adventure, action, political Studio: A-1 Pictures You know, it’s a really good thing that the Winter Games are over and I no longer have to try to predict where this show is going because I,m at a loss. I certainly wouldn’t have predicted the events of this episode and if you had…
Hi guys, for my next trick, I’m going to attempt the daunting task of honestly discussing fanservice without sucking all the fun out of it. Can I do it? Probably not.. tell you what, if you see me starting to loose the thread, just give me the signal and I’ll post some pics of half…
Genre :Slice of Life, Comedy, Romance, Fanservice Episodes: 1 (OVA) Studio: Kyoto Animation The dragons are celebrating their first Valentine’s day by discovering the simple joys of being encouraged to eat candy from strangers, being allowed to proudly confess to the objects of their desires and simply living in a world that takes a day…
Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy, Romance Episodes: 12 Studio: Shin-Ei Animation Join the staff of Umanohone (うまのほね, “the horse’s bone”), in their daily efforts to avoid complete chaos at the store during holiday sales and special events, while pursuing their personal goals and even possibly finding love? Umanihone is a refuge for lovers of…
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, dark comedy Episodes: 12 Studio: A-1 Pictures Describing Black Butler should be considered an art form in its own. Right, here we go. Ciel and Sebastian are back somehow but this time, they’re not alone. Victorian England wasn’t exactly the happiest place and time to live in and Ciel’s hardly the only…
I want to have a conversation about socks. I like to keep my goals on the attainable side. No but really, I have conflicting feelings about “Absolute Territory” (絶対領域, zettai ryouiki),and l want to talk them out but I can’t seem to do it. Everytime I start a conversations with: “you know about Japanese schoolgirls’ thigh…
Genre : Sports, Slice of Life, Comedy Episodes: 12 Studio: TMS Entertainment Hane is a high school girl you’ve known – I mean as long as you’ve known some impressively stupid high school girls. I have! Hane gets by in her school life without too much problems except her daily commute, which she considers her life greatest…
Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Genre : Adventure, Fantasy Episodes: 13 Studio: J.C.Staff Poor Hestia, things are looking rough. She’s not exactly the most renown goddess around. Her shrine is in disrepair, other goddesses snicker behind her back and her familia is down to a single member. But that’s…
Genre : Romance, Comedy, Yuri Episodes: 12 Studio: Studio Deen You know what guys, I’m just going to play this one straight. After some type of devastating disaster has left the world devoid of men (they don’t say if it’s a Y the Last Man type of situation or anything, but everyone seems pretty relaxed all things…
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure Episodes: 20 Studio: Studio Deen In our world Kazuma is a NEET, whiling away his days playing video games and doing very little else but after his tragic but heroic death, he is given a second chance to become a legendary hero by freeing a parallel world from the evil Devil…
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Fanservice Episodes: 12 Studio: Madhouse Blank, a brother and sister team of super elite gamers, and my personal role models, spend their days and mostly their nights, conquering every game that comes their way because they assumedly have the world’s most understanding/neglectful parents (although there may be a canon explanation for…
Genre: Comedy?, slice of life, fanservice Episodes: 12 Studio: Passione Some hot chick with social anxiety so extremely severe that she regularly seizes up physically and intellectually for hours and is kindly used by people around her as a scarecrow, randomly decides her only wish in life is to become a stage actress, cause that…
Fanservice has become a commonplace and fairly accepted part of anime but it is still generally maligned. For a lot of us, the very notion of fanservice is associated with cheap tricks meant to cover up otherwise subpar anime, and sadly that’s often exactly what it is, but I think there might be an argument…
Genre : Slice of life, 4 panel, ho yay, comedy Episodes: 13 Studio: Asahi Production A quiet young man who lives by himself comes across a beached and seemingly injured merman and decides to bring him back to his house and let him recover in his bathtub. Odd couple antics transpire. OK, right off…