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Ranking 10 Shows from 2013
So hyped for Season 5…oh this is about anime isn’t it? 2013 was definitely a show filled with many shows of assorted variety. It probably says a lot that I can think of tons of shows of appalling...
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Recently, My Sister is Unusual: A Quick Review
And release… It figures I kick off the new year with this newest addition to the IMOUTO genre (capitalized because Who is IMOUTO? is the masterpiece of the genre). Yuuya and Mitsuki are step-brother...
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Noragami: A Quick Review
“Why doesn’t any of this make sense?” Quite often these days you will find a show that is so into itself that it seems completely unaware of what passes for entertainment. The poor god figure...
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Nobunaga the Fool: A Quick Review
Oda Nobunaga piloting a mecha while holding Jeanne d’Arc in his arms? Oda Nobunaga piloting a mecha while holding Jeanne d’Arc in his arms. I think the only shows I’ve finished that have had characters...
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Nobunagun: A Quick Review
They even take selfies in anime. They are only 2 years behind popular culture now. From the very start, Nobunagun is pretty much obsessed with one thing. Inflicting as much violence on the screen as...
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Witch Craft Works: A Quick Review
The height difference just adds to how powerless Takamiya is in the beginning. Very rarely do you come across a show that actually makes you think about gender differences by merely swapping the...
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The Pilot’s Love Song: A Quick Review
Superman, this guy is not. Initially I was sort of dreading the fact that this series started with the dreaded To Aru because it meant only a 50% of it being ironically entertaining. I didn’t really...
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Buddy Complex: A Quick Review
Shipping doesn’t work if that is what the show knows it’s all it has. In the annals of generic mecha series, there will be few that will remember Buddy Complex. It seems to fit the bill of being the...
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Soni-Ani: Super Sonico the Animation: A Quick Review
The cameraman knows what is up. Series featuring mascot characters in modern times have rarely been interesting. There is just so much that can go wrong with a character that represents a larger entity...
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D-Frag!: A Quick Review
This is all she has as an act. Just like last year’s GJ-bu, the protagonist of D-Frag! is kidnapped and made to reluctantly join a club with a childlike president that doesn’t do anything beyond...
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Robot Girls Z: A Quick Review
Who is the evil one here? Having endured a much similar concept in 2005′s Ultimate Girls, I wasn’t expecting Robot Girls Z to be anything other than a train wreck. There’s just something about how...
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Hamatora: A Quick Review
This rivalry is on now. There was a point in the first episode of Hamatora where I knew exactly what would be in the safe that was at the center of the plot of the first episode. How often do you have...
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Onee-chan ga Kita!: A Quick Review
That mouth gives me flashbacks to all the bad seasons of Minami-ke It’s just like a guy leering over his younger stepsister only with the genders reversed. Alright, that might be just a little harsh....
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Engaged to the Unidentified: A Quick Review
It doesn’t look good for Mashiro here. This is really the story of a group of kids putting on facades and a way of once again making jokes about the differences between country and city folk for not...
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Strange+: A Quick Review
The back of that hand is cold. Oh look, it’s another short series. I guess I could say this reminded me a lot of Sparrow’s Hotel in how the comedy worked. But I can’t really put the level of comedy...
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Z/X Ignition: A Quick Review
The 2 assholes taking pictures with their tablets deserve exactly the death that is coming to them. When 6 minutes into an episode you are questioning the logic of the universe of an action show, it...
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Hozuki no Reitetsu: A Quick Review
This is how you negotiate your vacation time in Hell. As absurd as a setting of hell can be, Hozuki no Reitetsu is essentially a workplace comedy with a dark edge. The first part features the title...
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Magical Warfare: A Quick Review
I present to you the pair of objects that got the most attention in this episode. Suspension of disbelief is important for action shows like this. Few things are capable of destroying this than running...
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Pupa: A Quick Review
Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood. Pupa in its first episode really showed why censorship can be a bad thing if used selectively. We have an older brother witnessing his...
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Sakura Trick: A Quick Review
The entire point of the show is this, isn’t it? Within the first few minutes of Sakura Trick I was pretty confused about what exactly I was seeing. It’s a light-hearted comedy with a cast of all girls,...
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