WIXOSS finale, Shirobako 11

Three weeks ago I up my hands at selector spread WIXOSS. I no longer knew who was what person, or what their motives are. The last straw was episode 9 or 10, after Iona defeated Akira and, became herself again, is that right? Which means that, among other things, the Lrig they've all been calling …

Twos and threes: Wixoss, Vanadis

Now that I've finished all the episode ones I planned to watch, it's time to catch up with episode twos ... and threes, oh boy ... We'll start with selector spread WIXOSS, that happiest of shows, with its messed up situation, which in episode two, somehow, they manage to make even MORE messed up. I …

New 2014 Fall #1

Once again I'll start each show by posting the first comprehensible image from each show. I don't really know WHY I do this, but it's tradition. Here we go! An interesting start to Terraformars. We watch the world's wealthy watch a fighter named Akari who's trying to raise cash for his sick girlfriend and has …

Finales: Ping Pong, Wixoss, Nanana

It's an insult to other sports shows when I say Ping Pong is more than a sports show. But look at the final match. Sure we get some great action. We see Peco scoring a couple points and then Smile scoring one, but there are gaps in between these points while we watch the people …

Ping Pong 10, Wixoss 11, Nanana 10

I can't remember when I looked forward to an episode as much as Ping Pong 10. Happily, the episode did not disappoint. But it surprised me a little. The Peco/Kazama match could have wound up the other way and it would have made sense, maybe more sense than a guy with a bum let taking …

Ping Pong 9, Wixoss 10, Sidonia 9

Ping Pong 9 is a little disappointing in one respect, but only one. For all of the characters it's following, all the different paths, like that long-haired guy who's trying to find himself or that whiny girlfriend Sakuma's found himself, it looks like this show is going to settle down and be a sports anime …

M3 6, Wixoss 9, Ping Pong and Nanana 8

Let's see ... in M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane 6, Emiru gets turned into that dark crystal stuff, and that night a corpse, not an admonition, comes out to do the week's mayhem. Emiru isn't all dead because Minashi and Heito can hear her voice, well, when the corpse shows up, they all can, but then …

Wixoss 8, Ping Pong 7, M3 4-5

Selector Infected WIXOSS 8 throws a lovely little twist in at the end (spoilers). The show has done a terrific job at laying out just enough mystery to keep us interested, and deepening it when it's the proper time. Maybe I should have figured out that Eternal Girls become Lrigs for the next girl--I wondered …

Wixoss 7, Mekaku 5, Captain Earth 6

Celebrity Infected WIXOSS 7 does little in the way of telling us what's behind the mysteries, though it looked to head that way early on when Ruuko was running around looking for Akira and muttering about how she had to "end this," which I assume means this cruel, weird game. But instead she meets Iona …

M3 3, Wixoss 6, Sidonia 5

M3 3 is a decent but not great rebound from the previous week's mess. There's still plenty here that doesn't make sense, and by that I mean the way the people are dealing with the "corpses" and the administrators are training the team, which is becoming one of the most dysfunctional I can think of. …