Lorna has just been disowned by her noble family. In this world, people have skills ranked from A (the best) to G (the worst), and Lorna’s skill—the strangely named “Internet”—is SSS. Clearly a skill so far below even the lowly G-rank, it must be disgracefully worthless, right? But Lorna isn’t quite as fussed about this… Read More First Impression: The World’s Strongest Witch
From the very beginning, Serial Experiments Lain is unusual, abstract, hard to grasp. Just when you think the show couldn’t get any stranger, it does, with episode six taking us deeper into the strangeness and also pulling us out. While the mysteries of the Wired, the Knights, and Lain herself deepen (with the most remarkable… Read More Serial Experiments Lain Revisited: Episode 06
When I received my three choices of anime to watch before Christmas via the Reverse Thieves Secret Santa project, my gut response was: I need to see ALL of these. One choice was Air; another, Legend of Black Heaven, intrigues me perhaps the most of the three suggestions, and was a show I’d never heard… Read More Secret Santa: Summer Wars
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