Last time, I covered nine of the summer season’s continuing or sequel shows, now it’s time to appraise nine of the shiniest of shiny new things! How did I end up watching 18 shows in this supposedly “quieter” season? That’s not including the execrable Girlfriend Girlfriend that I dropped halfway through, plus I haven’t even started My Hero … Read more
Time to mourn the end of summer — with cold nights in Scotland already drawing in, bright glorious sunshine seems but a hazy memory. Perhaps reliving this past season’s glory will help us cling to that ephemeral warmth for a precious moment more. While summer’s offerings initially appeared to comprise a lesser selection than winter … Read more
What a tumultuous week this was, with the release of multiple highly-anticipated conclusions to some very prominent anime shows. With Megalobox 2: NOMAD, ODDTAXI, Shadows House, Higehiro, Fruits Basket and Wonder Egg Priority giving us endings wildly variable in quality, suffice to say I have a lot to talk about this time. You can find Part 1 of this season’s postmortem here, if you want to … Read more
The Spring 2021 anime season is almost over, and I can say with confidence that this has been the strongest season in a long time. It will be hard for me to rank so many great shows in order of preference, so this time I’ll write about the shows that have already concluded, and I’ll … Read more
What an epic season that was. Never before have I felt compelled to watch so many currently streaming anime episodes. At a final count I watched 24 different shows, so no wonder I feel somewhat overwhelmed and burnt out now. I think I’ll take a break before leaping headfirst into Spring 2021’s upcoming delights. Anyway, last … Read more
Sturgeon’s law states that “90% of everything is crap”. Does this law hold true for anime? In this insanely packed season, where so many pandemic-delayed 2020 shows were thrown into the late-night-broadcast Death Arena, have I wasted the majority of my time watching the largest number of concurrently streaming anime shows (23) that I have … Read more
Here’s a fateful quote from my 10-month old My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review: “The first part of 2020 has certainly been great so far for cinematic anime… I hope the rest of the year can keep up with this relative feast of theatrical Japanese animation”. I’m sorry. I jinxed it. 2020 was my fault. A little … Read more
What with an unprecedented surge of patient demand assailing the UK health service latterly, I’ve barely had time to think — let alone write the last couple of months. However, I have kept up with seasonal anime. Sometimes vegetating in front of the pretty moving colours at the end of a busy, stressful day is the best … Read more
This season, I started off pretty despondent at the lack of anime, hence the obviously exasperated tone of my halfway impressions article. Now that Summer 2020 is over (and the evenings are getting dark again — boooooo) I can look back and say that despite the great contraction in the number of new shows, some … Read more
Spring 2020 has ended and although the constant spectre of COVID19 threatened to cancel or postpone all the shows we love, at least some of our anxieties proved unfounded. It seems that the upcoming Summer 2020 season will bear most of the brunt of the pandemic’s effects, with a substantially reduced roster of shows announced … Read more