Seiichiro Kondou is a diligent salaryman who wrestles with receipts from day until night, even on his days off, so that before he knows it, he’s closing in on thirty with no life to speak of. One night, as he drags his weary body home after yet another futile battle, he hears a girl screaming… Read More First Impression: Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
“This is a world where things like killing and torture have been legalized,” announces the opening title, following a pretty mid OP. In this world, the employees of independent torture contractor, Spirytus Co., banter, chain smoke, and chug cans of black coffee with abandon in the break room in between sessions of torture. Their “appointments”… Read More First Impression: The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer
When Asa is fifteen, her parents die in a car crash, leaving her orphaned and alone and terribly, terribly numb. She walks through the early days of her loss in a daze, her wide green eyes dry as no tears come. Her future is uncertain; her relatives outdo one another in explaining why she is… Read More First Impression: Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki)
The 100-meter dash may be the most prestigious competition in modern athletics, but can such a short, straight race really make for engaging animation? This was the question driving director Kenji Iwaisawa as he approached this ambitious adaptation of the popular five-volume web manga by Uoto, Hyakuemu. Iwaisawa’s solution, he explained at the film’s world… Read More Film Review: 100 Meters (Hyakuemu)
Have you ever struggled to find the right gift for someone? Or realized that the gift you picked out was really more about you than them? (Or maybe you’ve been on the receiving end of a present like that!) This is exactly what Hiromi, the eponymous Ice Guy, is up against in the Christmas episode… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: The Ice Guy’s Most Perfect Gift
There are a lot of sweet Christmas anime episodes out there, but the one from pseudo-gothic mystery series Gosick is not one of them. Instead, it’s a bit of a travesty, really, mixing together Christmas and Hallowe’en, with a dash of secular Easter and a pinch of birthday, topped off with a thicker layer of… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 10: Gosick’s Weird Christmas
Every sports anime comes down to a climactic play. But in the last episode of Turkey, the final throw by bowling club captain Mai is not just about proving herself, winning a championship, or bringing the story to a satisfying conclusion. No. Instead (spoilers), Mai’s throw will determine which of her friends will live and… Read More Miracles from the Gutter, Turkey ep. 12
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