Spring 2013 Anime Season Preview

This is the 19th season preview listed on this website’s archives. 20 if I feel like counting the one I did for summer 2008 back on an old livejournal blog where I only covered about 3 upcoming anime and I predicted that Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret would be the next Haruhi Suzumiya. So I’ve been getting……

2001 Favourite(?) Anime: Hare+Guu

I’m starting to realise that ‘favourite and forgotten’ isn’t the best title for this project. What about anime that are popular but not critically well received? What of cult hits that are remembered by the elite but never penetrated the more casual anime fan’s shell of ignorance? What of something like Hare+Guu? It’s an old……

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……

Natsuyuki Rendezvous episode 1: Passive-aggressive ghosts (Scamp’s take)

The main character in Natsuyuki Rendezvous has a permanent -_- face, which I kinda love. I’m used to seeing permablush or eyes that are forever shut, but a constant glare of irritation is a new one that I rather like. I even like the fact that he draws attention to it, even better that he……

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……

Daily Lives of Highschool Boys episode 1

I was rather disappointed to discover that the first episode consisted of basically those pre-air episodes all over again, with barely 5 minutes of new content. It does give me an opportunity to talk about them properly this time, for all my intent was when I last posted about them was simply to correct my……

April Roundup

::Note:: I will be going on a brief hiatus until the 5th May because of the usual deadline scramble. In the meantime, you can listen to me and my smexy Irish accent on the Bakacast Tokyopop closed this month. Actually they didn’t, they simply closed their American base of operations, which still leaves their European……

Sket Dance episode 1

Saying I had low expectations going into Sket Dance would be a lie because that would suggest I had expectations of a certain height. Saying I had no expectations would also be a lie because I knew exactly what to expect having read some of the manga. My expectations were negative, lower than low. The……

Spring 2011 Anime Season Preview

Wow, what a great new season! This is way better than the winter season or the summer season from last year. Err, I mean, what a crap season. There’s only one or two things I’m interested in watching. Anime is going downhill, time to get through my backlog. Err, wait, which song sheet am I……

A Bunch of First Impressions

I made the vow a couple of seasons back not to write a first impressions post if I couldn’t say enough interesting about it to warrant a full post. Which is all well and good, but most of the first episodes this season left me with rather little to say. I still want to say……