First Impressions: Valvrave the Liberator

Alternate Titles: Kakumeiki Valvrave Mecha anime by Sunrise Simulcast on Crunchyroll Premise: In the future, humanity has migrated to space and built cities and nations in the stars. Between two warring factions known as the Dorssia Military Pact Federation and the Atlantic Ring United States, lies the small neutral nation of JIOR that has stayed independent thanks…

Chihayafuru 2 Episode 14

The intense match between Chihaya and Megumu comes to a close. While everyone is focused on this clash of giants, this is still a team match, and all of Team Mizusawa is going to have to come together if they want to go on to the finals.

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU: Episode 2

Yui is having problems separating herself from her old group. After Yukino helps her find the words to stand up to them, they go back to the clubroom to find an old classmate of Hachiman’s, still as weird as he was back in middle school. He wants the Service Club’s help in one of the most thankless jobs ever, critiquing. Considering who hes asking this of, he takes their thoughts pretty well.

Red Data Girl Episode 2

Izumiko is still a huge baby, but apparently now she has legitimate reason. While trying to get in contact with her mother, they find themselves getting tailed by malevolent forces, which ends up being The Worst Father Ever. They stay at her abandoned home, only to have Izumiko be posessed by a spectral kimono lady. I am still not convinced this is anything remotely good.

Spring 2013 Anime Shorts Roundabout-A-Go-Go

In addition to all our first impressions of the full length shows, a new anime season means more ANIME SHORTS. For this season I set aside the combined 19 minutes necessary to watch Aiura, Sparrow’s Hotel and Muromi-san and I’m not sure my opinion of the format has changed… OR HAS IT???

First Impressions: Arata the Legend

Arata Hinohara is constantly bullied at school and has trouble making friends. In a different world called Amawakuni, another boy named Arata is framed for murder while trying to save his clan. While fleeing for his life, he runs into a mysterious forest and the two Aratas change places.

First Impressions: Space Battleship Yamato 2199

Alternate Titles: Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199 Anime remake by Xebec/AIC Premise: Humanity has finally made contact with alien life, but hopes for peace are dashed when the mysterious aliens declare war on humanity and obliterate much of planet Earth. With the planet now a desolate wasteland and humans forced to live in underground cities, humanity wages a…

First Impressions: Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan is set in a world where the remnants of human civilization lives in cities surrounded by gigantic walls to protect them from the Titans, a race of giants who feed on humans for seemingly no cause or reason. Eren Jaeger and his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman are two inhabitants whom’s lives are dramatically changed when the colossal walls, which have stood unbroken for 100 years are suddenly brought down by a titan larger than any seen before. Eren swears to destroy the monsters who have forced humanity to live in cage of their own creation.

First Impressions: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

Hachiman is a disenfranchised youth with all the snark that entails. After writing a particuarly bleak essay, his teacher forces him to join the Service Club, headed by the haughty ace student Yukino. They slowly bond to help Hachi’s “people issues” and end up assisting a ditzy delinquent named Yui.