Rating: A- Episode 19 is the first one in the second half of season 4 to exclusively focus on Bell and Ryu’s plight on floor 37. That’s primarily because the other groups have now assembled and are in transit mode with a full rescue team, but this was also a necessary move in a thematicContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 19”
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A Second Chance at Greatness: Reincarnation Stories in the Winter ’23 Season
One substantial recent subcategory of reincarnation series in anime (and its source materials) has been one where a man has achieved the height of power, but for one reason or another winds up dying and reincarnating either in a new world or in a later time period in the same world. The The Summer 2020Continue reading “A Second Chance at Greatness: Reincarnation Stories in the Winter ’23 Season”
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Episode 17
Rating: A- There’s a great line from the recent series 86 which immediately came to mind a couple of times while watching this episode: “It’s a child’s right to dream. I do respect that. And until that child wakes up from her dream, and finds herself crushed against the merciless rocks of an unyielding reality,Continue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Episode 17”
Sword Art Online The Movie – Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night
The second of the Sword Art Online Progressive movies, Scherzo of Deep Night debuted in October 2022 in Japan and is now making the rounds in the States (and elsewhere) as a limited-run theatrical release. It does assume that the viewer has watch the first movie (Aria of a Starless Night), but no other familiarityContinue reading “Sword Art Online The Movie – Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night”
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 14
Rating: B+ To a certain extent, this part of DanMachi has become a tale of two redheads. On one side is Alise, the Captain of Astrea Familia and, once, Ryu’s closest friend. Back before she discarded her pride for revenge, Ryu was a very proud and dignified elf, which made her the subject of muchContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 14”
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episodes 13 and 14
NOTE: Due to me somehow forgetting that I hadn’t written up episode 13 yet, these two episodes are being covered together. Rating – Both Episodes: B+ After focusing almost exclusively on Bell’s crew in episode 12, episode 13 gives a roughly even split to Bell/Ryu vs. Bell’s crew, with just a little bit of timeContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episodes 13 and 14”
Winter 2023 Preview Guide
Last Update: 11:21 p.m. EST Saturday 1/14/23 Welcome to my Winter 2023 Preview Guide! (For the debut schedule, see here.) I expect to cover every full-episode series that will be debuting this season, including some of the sequels; yes for The Misfit of Demon King Academy, In/Spectre 2, BOFURI 2, and The Fruit of EvolutionContinue reading “Winter 2023 Preview Guide”
2022 in Review: The Best and Strangest of the Year
As we say good-bye to 2022, it’s time to take a look at the highlights of the year. Prior to Anime News Network starting its current “Best of Year” format in 2016, I spent several years at the site teaming up with one of two fellow reviewers to make a “Best of Year” format thatContinue reading “2022 in Review: The Best and Strangest of the Year”
Isekai³: The Isekai Quartet Movie
Isekai Quartet The Movie: Another World Japanese Premiere: 6/10/2022 English Premiere: 12/21/22 (on Crunchyroll) Though American media has a tradition of cross-overs going back at least 40 years, they have always been quite rare in Japan, which is part of what made the two TV seasons of Isekai Quartet (aired in Spring 2019 and WinterContinue reading “Isekai³: The Isekai Quartet Movie”
Who Lurk in the Shadows?
The Eminence in Shadow, episodes 1-12 Minoru Kageno was a young man who never outgrew his childhood desire to be a hero – specifically, a warrior from the shadows known as Eminence in Shadow. He trained hard so he could beat up biker punks and criminals, but that only went so far; shonen-style great powerContinue reading “Who Lurk in the Shadows?”
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