Author: Christian
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Ah the beginning of beginnings. This game was originally recommended to me by a friend back when I had no idea this series existed. I had played around halfway through it before getting distracted, as I frequently do. It wasn’t until I randomly dropped Persona 5 in its opening hours and made my return to… Read more
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I Parry Everything
I really will never get tired of the sentence like titles some of these shows roll up with. In fairness to them we are slowly running out of unique one or two word titles, if we haven’t already, but I still don’t think that quite justifies… 14 words? I’d criticize it more for this but… Read more
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The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible
I really will never get tired of the sentence like titles some of these shows roll up with. In fairness to them we are slowly running out of unique one- or two-word titles, if we haven’t already, but I still don’t think that quite justifies… 14 words? I’d criticize it more for this, but it… Read more
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My Deer Friend Nokotan
In a world where there were no big-name anime coming out this season and people apparently couldn’t figure out what to do with themselves, one deer-based comedy show gained unusual levels of popularity for about three weeks and then was rarely spoken about again. People were talking about it, friends who aren’t that into anime… Read more
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Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feeling in Russian
Ah, one of the oh so many romcoms this season. I swear there are normally like one or two that show up every other season but for whatever reason they really piled them on this summer. There has to be at least five. I’m sure of it. I’m definitely going to get a full count… Read more
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Wistoria: Wand and Sword
In a world where every character has a hair color that perfectly matches the element of magic that they use, one boy will have somewhat confusingly colored hair to indicate that he can’t use magic. Instead, he wields a sword. I just noticed this hair coordination thing while watching the very last episode so I… Read more
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Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines
You know, there is a raging debate going on these days about when a title screen appears in a show. The majority opinion is that the title should show up first. Usually right after the opening, sometimes after the fifteen minute, highly detailed, basically repeating the last episode in full recap that follows the opening.… Read more