Spring 2014 ~ Sports Anime
While I’m still working on the Alpha Project, I have been watching several shows from the new season, as well as a couple of carry overs. As it turns out I am watching 5 sports anime that are airing at...
View ArticlePing Pong 09 ~ but another may be
Peco, from “Ping Pong, the animation”, with his game face on. Ping Pong is the show I have been enjoying the most this season. One of the first things people notice are the unusual visual style, so I...
View ArticleValkyria Chronicles ED 2 (My Only Wish)
Largo taking out a tank in Valkyria Chronicles. Although I don’t blog here a lot, I continue to enjoy Anime, and check in on the many great aniblogging sites that are out there. One of the sites I...
View ArticleSummer 2014 ~ so far so good
Summer 2014 includes some shows about artisans at work, including Barakamon. All of the Summer 2014 season anime series have premiered, so it is time for a quick post on what looks good so far. This is...
View ArticleSummer 2014 update ~ back for another taste
A quick post about how I think the season is going. In my first post on the Summer 2014 anime season, I listed several shows that had caught my eye based essentially on the first episode. We are now up...
View ArticleNobunaga Concerto 03 ~ outrageous attire
Oda Nobunaga embraces his wife, as the difficulties of the Sengoku Jidai threaten to overwhelm them. Nobunaga Concerto is a bit behind the rest of the shows airing this season; episode three is out...
View ArticleShirobako ~ my favorite anime of the Fall 2014 season
Aoi Miyamori of the Musashino Animation company. Although Shirobako looked, at first glance, like another “cute girls doing cute stuff” show, it turned out to be a great series about the trials and...
View ArticleShigatsu wa Kimi no Uso ~ Final Thoughts
Kaori with violin Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso was a challenging show to watch at times, but it certainly had its charms. There is a saying about Ludovico Ariosto, that he loved the characters he wrote...
View ArticleMy Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU 2 OP by Yanagi Nagi and Round Table
It’s a cold, processed, almost colorless world, but people still reach out to one another in “My Teenage Romantic Comedy is SNAFU 2″. When word came that Yanagi Nagi was going to work with Round Table...
View ArticleSummer 2015 Anime
Here is my list of Summer 2015 anime series that look interesting – Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace Mysterious murders solved by middle school kids. Either an homage to, or based on the works of the...
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