THAT Animeblog

I want no part of Hobo Hei, where’s the collarbones?

The highly anticipated sequel to a widely popular dark action show with dead people all over the place. So, how do you follow-up an adrenaline-filled finish to season one? Can you top the emotion and the suspense? The choice was clear, let’s open with Japanese high school in Russia. Can I get an “OH YEAH!”

Read more

.

With the summer season over and the fall coming up shortly, some reflections on the series this blogger has watched (and in one case, dropped). Done in a short format, your own thoughts and comments on these or other summer series are very much welcome. While two of these series have yet to have their last episodes out subbed, I thought I should include them now before everyone gets caught up in the new season and a post like this become irrelevant.

Read more

I’ve been waiting quite a long time for them to animate the scenes shown in this episode, and I will say I was quite pleased with the results. I still don’t plan on blogging this regularly, but as I said in the last season preview, I did mention the possibility of making some noise whenever some Hina <3 occurred. For more regular coverage of this show I would point you in Zyl’s direction.

Read more

Future otou-san ghost had much to say about the paucity of testosterone in our much loved Hatsukoi Limited.

Read more

Read more

Yes, they really were BOTH laughing in that daydream.  Just like a certain stripping senior…

Once again, as seems to be par for the course, Minami-ke Okaeri manages to lurch along from amusing to ho-hum all within the same episode.  The twist this time is that we get an episode that focuses more on Riko for the first few skits, including a daydream which seems to have been stolen from Hosaka’s inventory of Haruka-induced delusions.

Read more

First to fight for the right,
And to build up women’s might,
And Miss Rina Goes Rolling Along
Proud of all she has done,
Fighting till the battle’s won,
And Miss Rina Goes Rolling Along.

So with the end of finals and the agonizing wait for final grades White Album was much more enjoyable this time. No Rina’s M-16 guitar was not the crowing achievement despite what omo and Kabitzin might think, rather it was the funniest episode to date as Touya wept like the pansy he is. Oh it was music to my ears. While decent people like usagijen have called it quits I think she cut and run all too soon. I find it strange that there are those who are quite close to cutting and running too but I suspected that all along the drama was going to get stupid quick if only because only Rina has a brain and Touya is a Shinji Ikari with “problems.” No comrades this is no drama this is the tale of a bunch of losers from 1986 who created faux problems in their still booming 1986 economy.

Read more