A thoughtful response to current anime.
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum, the good guys managed to rescue the damsel-in-distress from the clutches of the evil Tabuki. But things still aren’t resolved; Tabuki seems to have given up, for now at least, but Yuri is still out there scheming, so is the pink-haired doctor, and Masako and the Penguin Queen seem to [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum, the various factions were squaring off against one another. Tabuki was confronting Ringo and Himari at the top of a skyscraper, Yuri was confronting Masako in a parking garage, and Shouma and Kanba were confronting their own powerlessness to protect their sister. That’s pretty much all the players accounted for, [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum we got Masako’s sordid backstory. It actually didn’t seem that bad! I mean sure, she’s a member of the 1%, exploiting the hardworking honest members of society and engaging in destructive currency speculation to enrich herself at the expense of the global economy. I guess when you put it like [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum, we learned the secret of the diary. Apparently it can be used to alter reality, at a proportional physical cost to oneself. Magical artifacts with proportional costs for use are always a pain, but they’re probably worth having around anyway. It’s not clear what is proportional to what, exactly, but [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum, Ringo was in immediate danger of being sexually assaulted by Yuri. I have heard people say that this is karma, because of the time Ringo nearly raped Tabuki. Karma is no excuse, though. We should seek for good things to happen to good people, and good things to happen to [...]
Last time on Mawaru Penguindrum, the pink-haired guy, who is possibly the god of death and possibly the main antagonist of the series, saved Himari’s life for reasons, possibly nefarious ones, that he kept to himself. I mean, if his motives are good and pure, why doesn’t he just come out and tell us? Even [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum was kind of a downer, or a cliffhanger, or a hanging down a cliff. I guess it depends whether or not you think that Himari can still be revived. I’m optimistic for two reasons. First off, she still has another brother she can do naked kisses with – the Penguin [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum, there were a bunch of non-revelations about how something had happened sixteen years ago that had left bad blood between the characters, and the characters knew what it was, but they weren’t going to tell us, the viewers. I imagine this episode they will try to clarify what they were [...]
Last time on Mawaru Penguindrum, things had gone badly for our heroes. They had been kidnapped and ransomed and dressed up in pink sweaters, and they had the other half of the Penguin Drum diary stolen from them. I’m not sure where they can go from here, really. Kanba might know something, but the crossbow [...]
Last episode on Mawaru Penguindrum was a flashback/dream sequence/drug trip/allegory for 17th century Korean politics. The issue of what has happened to our poor protagonist who was hit by a car, or what has happened to the titular Penguin Drum that got torn in half, has been sitting in abeyance for a week. Probably they [...]
