Good news: Captain Earth 11 almost breaks out of the "wake up a new villain every week" rut they'd dug for themselves. The bad news is that they didn't. We met the new one last week, Setsuna, and two of the Midsummer force strike up a conversation with her while lounging about the pool. She's … Continue reading Captain Earth and Kanoko Flag 11, M3 9
Very little happened on the surface of Nanana's Buried Treasure 9, at least not until the end, and Nanana's sudden disappearance from the room doesn't feel like a departure, but a red herring. The rest of it was basically Hiiyo being nasty to everyone he meets, and the rest of the group banding together to … Continue reading Nanana 9, Mahouka and Captain Earth 10
Knights of Sidonia 8 has another thrilling battle, followed by backstory with overtones of silliness. I say silliness because it's hard to take anything Lala does seriously, as sympathetic a character as she is, since she's a bear. In the back of my mind I wonder why she chose that form, if she was the … Continue reading Sidonia 8, Captain Earth 9
Nisekoi ends, rather early in the season, too. That's okay, I guess. It's not like they're going to get anything solved, anyway. And we get the Romeo and Juliet that the series deserves. One way to get through a high school series is seeing how well they do the seemingly obligatory rituals, and the school … Continue reading Nisekoi finale, Mahouka, Captain Earth, and Kanojo no Flag 8
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 … Continue reading Wixoss 7, Mekaku 5, Captain Earth 6
Captain Earth 5 gives us a low-key story about a mission to sneak in and retrieve a prisoner in orbit, well, it might actually be an excuse for Teppei to meet his genetic "father," Eiji, and for Akari to see her mother, with the secret mission on the side. Who knows? I'm still trying to … Continue reading Nisekoi 17, Captain Earth and Kanojo Flag 5, Mekaku 4
Some series like to give you a big infodump in episode one, while others try to inject their backstories into the action, which then stumbles. Selector Infected WIXOSS is letting its story unfold just right. We have a lot of mysteries going on here. Besides the game itself and who's behind all this wishing stuff, … Continue reading Wixoss 4, Captain Earth 3-4, Sidonia 3, Nisekoi 16
Selector Infected WIXOSS is turning into an interesting series. I'm still wondering why so-and-so is getting another attack when it should be whozit's turn, and so forth, but overall they're doing a good job of explaining the game rules on the fly so we can get into the flow of battle without infodumps. And so … Continue reading Wixoss 2-3, Nisekoi 14, Captain Earth and Mahouka 2
Kiniro no Chord: Blue Sky, like the gods show, is also loaded with bishies, quite a few more, in fact. And it has a school crammed with people in it as well. Two of them, our heroine Kanade and bishie 1 (best friend variety) Kyoya, are talented young violinists who are off to see bishie … Continue reading New Spring 2014 #3
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