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Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episode 3
Some investigations don’t end so easily.
Seasonal Selection – Your Forma Episodes 1 & 2
Your Forma presents as a cyberpunk mystery/thriller, with interesting comparisons to two other cyberpunk mystery/thriller anime outings. Like ID:Invaded, the show features technology that allows in…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 4
86 continues to impress with its humanity, but to an extent much of what was had and needed this episode was highly predictable from the last. That’s not…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 4
What the hell? So, in this 3D CGI Anime about people fighting demons by using power suits that may also be demons, we have this episode, fully 2D…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 4
Let’s drop this joke. It’s Vs. Turbo Granny.
Seasonal Selection – Ex-Arm Episode 4
Look, I get it. If you’re going to steal visual designs, Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably a good choice. It’s got some good designs. But if you’re going…
Seasonal Selection – Tasokare Hotel Episode 4
Two guests at once is a hell of a trip.
Seasonal Selection – Sabikui Bisco Episode 4
Ah, here’s the fun road trip the pitch kind of promises. The episode is mostly concerned with getting Milo to bond with Akutagawa (the giant crab). The pacing…
Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 4
Flirty ninja girl, Bandit Kamina, and well more than your RDA of blood, as per expectation. So, this episode starts with catching us back up to the end…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 4
Another down, five “Immortal Nine” to go, and it’s time to send in the clowns.
Seasonal Selection – Scarlet Nexus Episode 4
Red Strings, there you are Cryptic talk and cryptic scenes Seto bites the dust? So, we resume Scarlet Nexus with a big battle on the highway, and things…
Seasonal Selection – Chainsaw Man Episode 4
It’s not every show that can give you a fight on a battleground that’s literally made of gore. Denji’s joy over defeating the Bat Devil and earning a…
Seasonal Selection – KamiErabi God.app Episode 4
Cast felt naked for a bit, we’ve got some new friends (and enemies) to eventually kill.
Your Forma – Episode 1
It's clearly cooking with all the usual ingredients of a cyberpunk police procedural.
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 4
Stand by for technical difficulties (in the show. The blog is fine.)
Seasonal Selection – The Gene of AI Episode 4
An anthology in an anthology, fancy that.
First Impression: Your Forma
Cyber Inspector Echika begins a brain dive. Her assistant, it seems, is an android—or rather, an Amicus—and as such, he is imprinted with the Laws of Respect, aka…
Seasonal Selection – Management of a Novice Alchemist Episode 4
In which we learn not literally everyone in this world is nice. Sarasa invites Iris and Kate to stay with her, and considers what to do about repairing…
Seasonal Selection – Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys Episode 4
Well, at least the show doesn’t try to pretend like things aren’t obvious when they are. In this episode, we follow up with an attempted assassination of the…
Your Forma #01 — Endless Meetings
Please go out and interview some suspects or witnesses at least. Final new show for the day… I think. It's Saturday and Sunday that are going to…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 5
We’re back to standard form this week with a jolly beating of hard realities into Kakeru’s thick head, which oddly enough has things looking up for the show,…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 1
So, this season we’ll be taking an episode-by-episode look at 86. Because this choice was kind of last-minute, it’s not really a show I’ve researched or know anything…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 11
The final episode of the cour (special pending) and if you told me this was the absolute final episode of the show and anything related to 86, I…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 9
The time for the great battle against Shin’s brother’s Shepherd form has come. The episode “feels” short, consisting essentially of two extremely powerful scenes rather than a lot…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 6
All things considered, this show can be kind of charming. True, just about anybody who’s engaged with any sort of media has seen this plot a million times…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 8
So, for those who wanted a darker and more serious episode out of Shikizakura, we have this one And, compared to the bits earlier in the show that…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 9
So, I misread things last week – the smooth talker from Black Team wasn’t the big monster; he was in the scene already. In the first couple of…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 7
The pace of 86, at times, makes it difficult to talk about, or at least to start with. At the bare minimum for the week’s episode we saw…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 12
Well, at least Season 2 is already announced.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 8
So, this episode is all pretty much ‘gearing up’ for what would seem to be a final confrontation. The Spearhead is down to five, and they’re being sent…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 10
This episode is again a very needed beat in the story, serving as the hero’s darkest moment before turning things around at the climax, and it comes at…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 6
Main character syndrome is a… well, it rhymes with witch, dontcha know?
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 2
Plot 101: Introducing some more of our main story. Honestly, one thing I’m enjoying about 86 is how it’s been building up the world. In the first episode,…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 7
Feeling sorry for the murder ghost.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 1
Well, a new season is here and despite the fact that some previous Selections are continuing (namely Scarlet Nexus and 86), it’s time to pick one of them…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 5
This week, we calm down for a bit before getting into our next major plot. ; or, “Let’s Play Ball.”
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 7
So, after the big turn of last episode, it’s time for downtime! Actually, I think it is kind of the correct time for this… or at least, a…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 11
Hey, this is just a thought, but maybe the show’s not going out on its highest note.
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 9
The episode title spoils the twist?
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 10
You bet we need to clean up after last episode.
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 6
We spend most of this episode with Spearhead, oddly enough including an extended flashback scene to when the formation was first formed, having a fun cookout together. One…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 2
Let’s Get Black & White.
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 2
“The one where we actually integrate the main character into the setting” is an important plot beat for a lot of shows, particularly ones in the Urban Fantasy…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 3
Let’s get crackin’
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 3
I hope you enjoy slow burn drama over any general expectation of action. Frankly, I kind of appreciate the approach… at least when there’s been a second cour…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 8
And now she really is a main character!
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 5
So, to an extent, I was wrong. Shin’s brother got a more detailed address than I was expecting, even if, no, it wasn’t the crux of another transformation.…
Seasonal Selection – 86 Episode 10
No Lena this week. For much of the episode, not really much talking either. This one is very much on the artistic end, trying to convey an experience…
Seasonal Selection – Shikizakura Episode 3
I won’t say that Shikizakura exactly did well, but it did display a basic understanding of the facts I was talking about last week. To its limited credit,…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 1
Let’s get freaky.