Fall 2015 Anime Season Preview

Kept you waiting. Welcome to The Cart Driver’s a little bit later than usual Fall 2015 Anime Season Preview! 2015 has been a pretty good year for anime all things considered, certainly a step up from the fairly woeful 2014. Winter was great, summer had some fantastic series, spring was…well OK spring was a waste……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 26 (finale) – Nadeko to be the next Tezuka

Considering how much they teased what was in that wardrobe, it could have been a hell of a lot more anti-climactic. Nadeko could have become a snake god because she was busy running away from doing her summer homework. Now imagine how annoyingly anti-climactic that would have been to several episodes of nothing but repeating……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 25 – You trying to fool me?

Nisioisin supports underage drinking. Nadeko went from onii-chan fetishist Worst Girl to binge drinking snake goddess. With the reveal at the end of this episode, combined with her brilliant EEEHHHH scene, she’s had two of the best moments in the whole season. Character transformation ahoy. If pulling a guillotine gorilla is anime version’s of jump……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 24 – Legacy building

I like this scene because Kaiki holds the phone in a vaguely similar way to L from Death Note. Like if he gripped it properly it would contaminate his hand so he has to gingerly grasp it between two fingers and hold it away from his face as though it might bite him at any……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 12 – The actual worst girl

If you are reading this long after the episode aired, I’ve skipped forward to episode 12 because there was no episode 11. Well there was, but it was a recap again. Just assume there will be a recap episode after every arc. We haven’t recapped Nisemonogatari yet so they still have material. They’ll probably recap……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 9 – A world with no Senjogahara

A world with no Senjogahara is the one I live in, the one you live in, the one all we real non-fictional people (and most fictional people too) live in. Yet we are able to continue on with our lives without collapsing in despair and do you know why? Because we never lived in a……

Monogatari Series Second Season episode 7 – The meaning of life

In case you’re reading this long past its release date, there’s no Monogatari Series episode 6 post because that was a recap. Good old Shaft hitting their usual high standards of a complete inability to plan their time efficiently. But at least this time we won’t be waiting over 6 months for the final 3……

Monogatari Series: Second season episode 4 – Ahoge’s are a dominant gene

Well this is awkward. After posting a pretty comprehensive rundown of why light novel adaptations are a load of old trollop, I’m now going to sing the praises for this light novel adaptations about a token male lead who gained super powers through no effort on his part, has a magical girlfriend literally fall into……