2014 Anime of the Year Awards and Top 10

If I was to create a mental image of what anime was like in 2014, imagine a few gleaming diamonds being buried under a sea of light novels about little sisters, video game wish fulfilment and shittiness. It’s been like that for a while but it did seem like this year was especially bad for……

Inushinde’s Top 10 Anime of 2014

I wasn’t quite as down on 2014 as I thought I’d be. It didn’t have the highest heights of 2011, and it gave us the likes of Mahouka and Rail Wars, but it also gave us the above screenshot and at least ten great shows. While there were plenty of other good shows, with the Denki-Gai’s……

Scamp’s top 10 anime of 2014

2013 was a decent year for anime with some great surprises, but it was rather lacking in depth once you looked outside the top of the pile. “That was nice” I said to the Gods of Anime. “But how about next year we have a greater variety of decent anime”. So the anime gods responded……

12 Days of Anime: 2 series of Mushishi indistinguishable in quality

9 years we’ve waited for this sequel. Well technically I saw it in 2008 so only 6 years for me, but that’s still a pretty long time to wait for the rest of the Mushishi manga to get animated. I bought the first volume of the Mushishi manga but reading that rather than watching the anime……

November 2014 Roundup

The year is nearly over. Time to start deciding the best and worst of the year. Now would be the ideal time to go back and watch that anime everyone is talking about so you can decide your favourite anime of the year too! Or you could just spend more time procrastinating on the internet like……

May 2014 Roundup

Mushishi is the best show this season. You can stop reading this post now. That is all you need to know. …ok maybe here’s some other stuff What’s Hot Scamp: Tonari no Seki-kun Mushishi is the best anime, but I don’t like writing about the same thing two weeks in a row so instead I……

Mushishi season 2 episode 5 – Mushi are weak

Scamp: My new game with Mushishi is trying to predict what seemingly innocous act will result in our new character being doomed and almost dying. This week started with the girl walking along in a forest and then checking her reflection out in the water. So I bet what happens is she reaches out and……

April 2014 Roundup

New season is here. Time for all new anime to watch, all new praises to sing, all new shows to recommend, all new cocks to su-what’s that? Shinmaru is still raving about some dumb long running shounen? Scamp is most excited about a sequel to a show that’s almost 10 years old? Welp, so much……