A thoughtful response to current anime.
The previous episode of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai marked the beginning of summer vacation. Oh boy! Summer vacation means going swimming and visiting festivals and watching fireworks and being caught in an endless time loop that triggers a revolt among your fans. Let’s hope episode 7 of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai is a [...]
The previous episode of BakaTest was all backstory about Yuuji and Shouko. I wonder if that means they’re going to give us an episode focused on that relationship? It’d be nice to see it treated on more than just the shallow level of “Yuuji looks at another girl, Shouko pokes his eyes out”. On the [...]
Last time on BakaTest, the nascent war had fizzled out, but at the cost of spreading the knowledge of Minami and Akihisa’s mutual feelings for each other around the school. Practically everyone now knows at least one half of it, and people who really would be happier not knowing, like Miharu and Himeji, know both. [...]
I was gonna watch some SKET Dance, but last episode was unreal bad, and there have been some pretty bad episodes scattered throughout, too. I think I’m just gonna drop it. Instead, let’s watch BakaTest! Last episode, Akihisa and Minami had resolved to pretend to be a couple in order to provoke D-class into attacking [...]
Last week on BakaTest we got Minami’s backstory, finally explaining what she sees in Akihisa. He’s a nice guy, and that’s great for him. It explains why he’s been able to take the constant abuse from all sides, from his classmates, teachers, family members, and romantic interests (yes there is some overlap among the categories.) [...]
Last time on BakaTest, Minami totally kissed Akihisa ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod. I’m totally, like, squeeing times a bajillion here. Usually I say I like tsunderes better when they’re tsun, but that doesn’t apply to physically violent tsunderes like Minami. When physically violent tsunderes like Minami turn dere, you have the opportunity to unleash their furious [...]
Last time on BakaTest the guys were tracking down a mysterious blackmailer who had been planting hidden cameras and listening devices to capture embarrassing footage of the guys. The blackmailer has a distinguishing burn mark on her butt, so they have been trying to sneak peeks at the girls while they are bathing. Which is [...]
I’m heading back home tomorrow morning, so I hope to be back to my regular somewhat-irregular anime blogging schedule then. I have watched some episodes of currently airing anime while I’ve been here, so here are some brief thoughts on them, almost twitter-style. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Episodes 5 +6: Funny enough. The jokes [...]
Last episode of BakaTest was a flashback filler double feature, a million miles from any possible continuity carrying over into this episode. Fine by me. I’ll take as many silly episodes about Hideyoshi crossdressing as they’re willing to put out. There’s been a surprisingly strong trend toward that, hasn’t there? Not even considering that even [...]
At this point in BakaTest, our heroes have definitely returned from the beach, so we can put that whole nasty business behind us and move on. To the start of the school year, maybe? It is a school life comedy, after all. In fairness, I guess “summer vacation” is a quintessentially school-life activity – once [...]
