Psycho Pass episode 20 – Stump speech

Moe Akane practically doesn’t exist anymore. She’s too steely faced and serious to offer any prime cutesy photo ops. The only way we get that Akane is if we get a flashback to her time prior to joining the police force. That’s some good old character development for you.  Go from moe to no moe……

Psycho Pass episode 1 – Kougami has a laser cannon!

After coming out of university and doing what everyone who gets an arts degree does and ask myself “what the hell am I supposed to do with this”, I decided to try become a journalist (this does relate to Psycho Pass, trust me, I’m going somewhere with this). I’m still a trainee, but the most……

Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai episode 1 – A Wild Porygon appearargharghargh

Between the cold open to From the New World, where shaky cam and blurring vision caused my eyes to start watering, to Chuunibyou’s seizure inducing OP, it hasn’t been a great season for my eyesight. It’s not that the lights in Chuu2 are strobe-like either. There’s just something about the relentless swapping from one side……

Fall 2012 Anime Season Preview

And Lo’, the Lord did give unto him the 3 Laws of Season Previews: Everything is interesting until proven otherwise. Going in with a closed mind is the surest way to miss out on the Next Big Thing. There is no such thing as a sure-fire hit. Everything has a chance of sucking. Good staff……

Spring 2012 Anime Season Preview

Welcome to The Cart Driver’s world renowned anime season preview! In the post-chartfag world, the need for season previews to simply tell you what anime are coming out has been diminished. Instead I’m here to tell you why these upcoming anime are interesting. And there are a lot of…interesting anime coming out this spring. Bar……

Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing episode 1

If my Fate/Zero and Persona 4 posts had to start off with a disclaimer about my lack of experience with each respective franchise, then it’s a given that I have to do likewise for a franchise where I do have previous experience. Make no mistake, what you are reading here are the impressions from a……

The readers have spoken part 1

So as I said in my last post, I sent out a question on formspring asking people what I should write about. Then, in turn, I write my responses in this post, like Answerman or Ask John, except I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about. There was quite a lot of questions, so I’m……

The IdolM@ster episode 1

This show is going to fucking explode with Japanese otaku. Yes, I know IdolM@ster is already massively popular and preventing the Berserk manga from going anywhere anytime soon, but I don’t think there is a single way they could have made this any better. This was about a good a first episode as IdolM@ster could……

Denpa Onna and dragging stories beyond their natural end

My thoughts on Denpa Onna after 5 episodes. Because sometimes I have more to say about currently airing anime than I can possibly fit in your standard monthly roundup. Or my alternative and more precise sub-title, why it should have stopped after episode 3. Denpa Onna is about a generic teenage boy going to live……

My Sai Mecha Nominations

SaiMoe happens to be currently on. In it, users vote in a series of match ups to decide who is the most moe character of them all. I like to pretend such a contest doesn’t exist. That is, until a great man EO from THAT Blog set up SaiMecha, which is a popularity contest I……