A lot of anime about youkai this season! 00:00 Intro 02:08 The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague 09:20 Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari 15:36 In/Spectre 2 24:10 Outro Music Credits “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague OP: “Frozen Midnight” by Takao Sakuma “Seasons” by roljui ..read more

Ch. 45 Summary: Shiina’s dad goes to Russia. He meets an old lady, and brings her on  a flight to find her son. They find him living with a dragon, who has been in space for the past eighteen years. Basically, this chapter (which spans over half a volume!) is an excuse for Kitoh to draw Soviet aircraft. I’m not even joking. And darn do they look good. We have multiple types of planes, missiles, and even helicopters. I don’t know much about planes but I assume they’re quite realistically depicted. Aside from that, I think the main take away point here is to show Shiina’s dad coming t ..read more

Ch. 39 Summary: Satomi tries to kill Shiina on a school trip. Norio knocks her unconscious, but her dragon child still tries to kill Shiina. We see a flashback in which criticism for Satomi failing a test is interspersed with sex scenes. Ch 40 Summary: Shiina’s mom and another lady talk about the dragon children, life and death. (This chapter is omitted entirely from the official English translation. But it doesn’t add too much… mostly talking about how dragons are all other types of monsters too, how the dragon children are like larva, and how they aren’t alive.) Ch. 41 Summary: Sat ..read more

We are enjoying both of these, although they haven’t quite lived up to initial hopes. 00:00 Intro 02:00 The Fire Hunter 11:50 Kaina of the Great Snow Sea 25:34 GIANT BEASTS OF ARS 25:55 Outro Music Credits “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain Kaina of the Great Snow Sea OP: “Telepath” by Yorushika “Seasons” by roljui ..read more

Ch. 37 Summary: Shiina visits Satomi’s house to apologize, and eats dinner with Satomi, her mother, and Bungo.  Ch. 38 Summary: Shiina and Satomi each realize what the other has done with their dragon child. Revelations In Ch. 38, the apocalypse occurs. I mean this in the original Greek sense of the word, as a disclosure of knowledge. The reason I chose this word will become very clear in the ensuing chapters. Let’s do a a quick comparison of this chapter of Narutaru and in the Revelation of John. To be clear, I doubt Kitoh had this comparison in mine: I just think they follow a similar p ..read more

Chuunibyou. This ended up being a decent show. But they really blew it with that first episode. Most people I knew dropped this show from that without even realizing it was a comedy. I don’t know what they were thinking. Overall, even after the first episode when they did realize it was a comedy, I found the manga much more enjoyable. The anime doesn’t do justice to Cid’s character. It takes his chuuni acts too seriously and in general just isn’t as funny as the manga is. Storytelling – B – Got decent after the disastrous first episode. Voice – B – I do love the premise. Characters – B – Th ..read more

Ch. 34 Summary: Shiina enters Banda academy. She’s growing up. Ch. 35 Summary: Sudou shoots some kids for littering. Ch. 36 Summary: Shiina starts school and slaps Satomi in the face. Coming of Age Not much to say about Ch. 34. It’s mostly there to show that Shiina’s growing up, entering junior high, and time has passed since Hiro died. Shiina’s mother still sucks, Takeo is still a pervert, Sudou is still Sudou, and Shiina’s dad is still a lolicon. Now Shiina is too old so he refuses to take baths with her, no matter how much she begs him… Daddy also appears to be concerned about all the olde ..read more

The dog in campfire cooking is clearly a tsundere too. 00:00 Intro 01:55 Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill 09:07 Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte 22:05 Other isekai of the season 27:15 Outro Music Credits “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte OP: “Distorted Words” by Dazbee “Seasons” by roljui ..read more

I last updated my list of favorites in 2014. I always thought it was mostly a futile exercise: how am I supposed to compare things that are so radically different, aside from sharing a common medium? Every time you’d ask me you’d get a different answer. So instead of updating the list, this time I’m just going to tell you all a bunch of my favorite anime since then. Most of them are in alphabetical order— but I did make an attempt at ranking the top 15. Enjoy! And please share what you think I left out! Click the links for more details about each show. ACCA I don’t even know how to exp ..read more

I actually wrote these posts a while ago, but hadn’t finished them, mostly back in 2015. My thoughts have changed somewhat but I still wanted to publish these. I’ve scheduled one a week until the end! You can catch up on the older posts here. Ch. 28 Summary: Shiina’s friend Hiroko and Akira are both bullied. Akira tries to get a boy who likes her at school to impregnate her. Hiroko uses her dragon child to murder her parents and bullies, then takes Shiina’s father hostage in an apparent attempt to get Shiina to kill her. Akira stabs her father. This chapter takes up an entire volume. And it is ..read more