Reviews and editorials celebrating amazing moments in anime.
Kobeni Higashiyama’s Attempted Murder First, spoiler alert: I’m going to talk about events that will spoil both episode 6 (Kill Denji) and episode 9 (From Kyoto). If don’t want those spoiled, please bail now! There will be spoilers especially for Chainsaw Man’s Kobeni Higashiyama. But if you’ve seen those episode and want to share a […]
Hajime Nagumo: A Self Aware Monster Hajime Nagumo really impressed me in the season finale (A New Journey) of Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest Season 2. It wasn’t just because he ran into some villains that actually challenged him. And yes, seeing how hard he had to struggle to fight Noint was a lot […]
Sei’s Isekai Reaction – Very Topical! I loved Sei’s isekai reaction. I recently read the post “Would I Like to Live in Another World?” written by Tony Ueberfluss on the site RAILGUNFAN75’S GEEK BLOG. As you can tell from the title, it asks a damned good question. If you could live in another world, would […]
Maki’s Admirers Fire Force Season 2 Episode 21, “Enemy Contact,” featured two strong-willed men bickering over a woman. But it’s nothing romantic. The woman in question was Maki Oze, one of the most powerful members of the 8th Special Fire Force Company. Or at least, she had been until recently. That’s the cause of the […]
Cute Girls Destroying Terrible Monsters Are you watching Assault Lily BOQUET? It looked like it might be a pleasant distraction. After watching the first episode, I changed my mind. It looked it would be a very pleasant distraction. A tweet from Kefit summed it up, saying “Assault Lily ep1 was actually pretty great! Likeable characters […]
In most school populations, and even in many business environments, there’re one or two people who are as nice as can be, but they try way too hard to “toot their own horn.” Maybe that’s how they were always taught. Maybe that’s a self-defense mechanism they’ve evolved over the years. Whatever the reason, things feel, […]
As I write this, we’re now up to episode 9 of Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld, after a first cour of 24 episodes. The second cour has already scored one Caw Out Awards: Most Unexpected Thermonuclear Strike To The Feels (Fall 2019 Edition) (October 19, 2019). Now, it’s earned its second. And […]