What’s that aroma in the air? Ah, it’s delicious gyoza! Mukohda is cooking up yet another yummy dish for his familiars—the Fenrir named Fel, and the slime, Sui. But the smell also attracts another animal, a miniature dragon known as a pixie dragon. And before he knows it, Mukohda has added another familiar to his… Read More First Impression: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Season 2
Zenshu has been a favorite around here this season, and the finale did not disappoint! It pulls together all the threads that we wrote about for earlier episodes (spoilers ahead!): there’s Memmeln’s continued faith in the Lord Exister and the hope it gives her to the very end; there’s QJ’s resurrection, completing his Christ-like arc… Read More Zenshu and Spiritual Warfare: The Power of Creating
If you’ve been keeping up with BtT lately, you’ll have noticed that we’re pretty big fans of Mappa’s original series, Zenshu, starring the animation director Hirose Natsuko as the self-sufficient loner genius who loses an encounter with an out-of-date clamshell bento and winds up incarnated in her favorite anime movie, the tragic A Tale of… Read More Zenshu Ep. 9: QJ’s Sacrifice and A Hero That Can’t Be Copied
Natsuko Hirose is a young hotshot animation director who skyrocketed to fame with her first production—one that was so relevant it became a cultural phenomenon. Her next series is set to take the world equally by storm—except that she’s suffering from writer’s animator’s block. Time is getting tight and her hair is getting long (she’s… Read More First Impression: Zenshu
Haruka Kiyomine and Kei Kaname are the strongest battery in middle school baseball. With Kiyomine’s prodigious pitches and Kaname’s precision catches, this duo once had ambitions of shutting down anyone who dared step up to the plate, including the rather plain Taro Yamada, who lost at the hands of the duo and swore off baseball… Read More First Impression: Oblivion Battery
Arajin Tomobishi has a habit of losing things. First, he leaves his bass guitar in the classroom on his first day at a new school, then he leaves his glasses in the hallway after some delinquents knock them off his face. Next up, his clothes disappear, thanks to some other delinquents (more nicely dressed this… Read More First Impression: Bucchigiri?!
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