Category: Reviews

This is why you don’t go around calling every show that tries to tell jokes “slice of life”. I’ll have to assume they suck and ignore them, like I did with Working’s first two seasons. I ended up watching Working’s […]

Shitting on DBZ is a rite of passage for anime critics. While many shows have glaring flaws, DBZ has the rare honor of remaining the most well-known and most egregious example of the very flaws it prototyped over two decades […]

About two years ago, I took a “sick” day for the first time in my life to travel three hours in each direction to interview for a job I ultimately didn’t get. But the day was memorable for a bigger […]

Kaiji had ridiculous stakes. Liar Game had brilliant strategy. Then nothing happened for a while. Now the gambling genre is back in full force with the sadism of Kakegurui. Kakegurui is about a bunch of psychotic lesbians shit-talking each other […]

With all the trapped-in-an-RPG shows that’ve been coming out lately, it’s kind of refreshing to see a show that cuts to the chase. The main character of Yuusha Yoshihiko (The Hero Yoshihiko/The Brave Yoshihiko) is an actual RPG protagonist—or at […]

DVD rental is still a thing in Japan. It’s gotten me through some of my movie backlog because: Older DVDs are cheap (only 108 yen for a week) I can watch recent films on flights for free Streaming video is […]

I pick anime like the NFL picks its Hall of Fame. Very few are immediate selections. Most need to wait a few seasons to make the cut. A token pick is set aside for the “classic” era. It’s nearly impossible […]

In the mood for another sports anime after watching Haikyuu, I considered checking out Yuri on Ice. There was just one problem: it seemed a little too gay, even for a sports anime in the year 2016. So I checked […]