Golden Time episode 1 – Animate like it’s 2003

I may have let slip in my season preview for Golden Time that I wasn’t terribly fond of Toradora, certainly compared to everyone else. That’s not to say I hated it though. It was above average, certainly better than most high school romance anime, and a whole lot better than everything else that’s not Nodame……

Nisemonogatari episode 9

No toothbrushes and no Senjogahara this week in Nisemonogatari. Worst episode ever. Why exactly have we started to cycle back through the haremmettes again? I get why we did that at the start of this season. We needed to re-introduce the cast and demonstrate how they had changed in that time. The scenes with Kanbaru,……

Demonbane – Visual Novel Review

Almost 2 months since the last visual novel review, and I finally get out another one. Was this because I was so entranced by Demonbane that I had to play through each and every single route of this mammoth game to get the full experience? Or was it because I kept putting off playing any……

Steins;Gate episode 18

Disapproving waitress in the background was the best character from this episode. At least, she was the one who came out of it with her reputation unscathed and actually improved. Can’t say the same for the rest of the cast. I could spend this entire post pointing out the faults of the episode. I could……

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……

Bunny Drop episode 1

If this wasn’t Noitamina, you would be calling this lolipedo bait, right? Yeah, if you were the kind of person who also called Ikoku Meiro no Croisee lolipedo bait. As in, you’re the type of person who decides what an anime is about based on its labels rather than what it actually holds. Noitamina do……

May Roundup

Closest thing to news this month would be the beginnings of the self-enforcement of Bill 156. However the only manga being shoved up to 18+ were smut like Aki Sora. Now perhaps this isn’t the ideal approach to such a subject, but when the only stuff being affected are smut, then I find it really……

Steins;Gate episode 6

I’m on the Metanorn Podcast! Listen as I talk about how I got into anime blogging, reminisce over Hetalia, bitch about the Evangelion ending and (pretend to) suck my finger. My general approach to episodic reviewing is to take screencaps, then do the actual writing. However sometimes I get distracted between the screencapping and the……

Steins;Gate episode 5

You know you want some of my soft banana. You jelly? Wait…did the show call him Jellyman because he reported on the people who turned to Jelly? That’s kinda lame. I prefer to think it’s because he was jealous of his bosses new lab coat instead, so that’s what the crew at SERN CERN called……

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……