A place to celebrate anime. Reviews of series with interesting characters and moments of beauty.
Cells at Work: Most Impressive Show of Bravery in the Face of Despair (Cellular Level Category)Okay, seriously, Cells at Work was supposed to be this light-hearted educational kind of show. I didn’t expect this level of dramatic tension! Here, Red Blood Cell faces her despair with a calm, matter of fact bravery. Capture from the Crunchyroll stream.When I […]
Thirty-ninth week of 2018 edition! This is a Crow’s eye view of the posts that caught my attention this week. Typically, they’ll be posts that celebrate some aspect of anime, like strong characters, intricate plots, or amazing worlds. There are only two rules:I have to find the site to read it. I publish a list of the […]
Episode 1: Light, Seven FlashesandEpisode 2: Nebula SoldiersPlanet With Episodes 1 and 2 Review: A Cat Sensei and an Amnesiac HeroIn Planet With episode 1 (Light, Seven Flashes) and episode 2 (Nebula Soldiers), Souya Kuroi has a terrifying dream in which he watches his friends fly off in strange flying armor to engage what appears to be an unbeatable […]
Episode 1: The Last HopeBlack Bullet Episode 1 Review: That’s an Ugly Spider and the Plight of the Cursed ChildrenIn Black Bullet Episode 1, “The Last Hope,” Rentarou Satomi, a CivSec officer employed by the Tendou Civilian Security company, gets called in to an infection scene that the police have tried — and terribly failed — to contain. Together […]
Quick SummaryIn Planet With episode 12, “Behold, The Universe is Filled with Blessings,” Souya Kuroi, Sensei, Ginko, Nozomi Takamagahara, and the assembled Earth/Nebula defenders execute their desparate plan to defeat the dragon. But in war, no plan survives contact with the enemy. Can our heroes stand against such a powerful foe — a foe that won’t even acknowledge its […]
Quick SummaryIn Black Bullet Episode 13, “The Ones Who Aspired to be Gods,”Rentarou Satomi leads the Tokyo Area’s last defense against Aldebaran and the massed Gastrea. Deprived of the batteries needed to power their lights, none of the team except for Tina Sprout can even see their targets in the gloom. Will Rentarou be forced to give […]
Thirty-eighth week of 2018 edition! This is a Crow’s eye view of the posts that caught my attention this week. Typically, they’ll be posts that celebrate some aspect of anime, like strong characters, intricate plots, or amazing worlds. There are only two rules:I have to find the site to read it. I publish a list of the sites […]
Quick SummaryIn Planet With episode 11, “Azrabarakura,” we join our heroes five year into the future. The dragon is about to awaken on the far side of our moon. Sensei, Generalissimo, and the other Nebula leaders have tried to come up with a plan to defeat it, with the responsible for the physical fighting falling on the previous […]
Quick SummaryIn Black Bullet Episode 12, “Crisis Point,” Rentarou Satomi teams up with a surprising partner — Kagetane Hiruko — to challenge Pleiades. If they can’t defeat that Gastrea, then their forces stand no chance. As augmented as they are, even the two of them fighting together found it no easy task — yet they prevailed. Unfortunately, Aldebaran saw an […]
Thirty-seventh week of 2018 edition! This is a Crow’s eye view of the posts that caught my attention this week. Typically, they’ll be posts that celebrate some aspect of anime, like strong characters, intricate plots, or amazing worlds. There are only two rules:I have to find the site to read it. I publish a list of the sites […]
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