Better late than never, no?
summer 2014
Rule of Three Review, Bubble Digest: Tokyo ESP, Magimoji Rurumo – Episodes 2-3
Pop goes the watchlist?
Both of these shows barely made the cut during Premiere Week, and they remained on my bubble after their second episode. This doesn’t usually bode well, and yet… well, I suppose there’s a reason we call it the “Three Episode Rule” and not the “Two Episode Rule,” after all. When all was said and done, one show jumped up my interest list while the other continued to hover in an uncertain gray area. Which is which, and how do we proceed from here? Your answers and more beneath the jump.
Rule of Three Review: Terror in Resonance, Episodes 2-3
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of LN adaptations, I shall fear no mediocrity, for Watanabe Shinichirou is still making anime.
Rule of Three Review, Boys’ Club Digest: Black Butler: Book of Circus, Love Stage!! – Episodes 2-3
Let’s hear it for the boys ♪ —Well, some of them, anyway…
I decided to blog these shows together before I’d actually watched the third episodes, because I figured I could come on here and write a pair of shiny reviews about two male-led series with great humor and likable characters, but… well, things got more than a little unpleasant over on the Love Stage this week, so make that one shiny review and one review with a lot of upset tarnish all over its edges. Ravings and rantings below the jump.
Rule of Three Review, Ladies’ Digest: Blue Spring Ride, HaNaYaMaTa – Episodes 2-3
Sometimes you don’t have to do anything new as long as you’re doing it well.
I don’t have a ton to say about either of these shows (although most of what I do have to say is positive), so it made sense to roll them into a digest. Hit the jump to spend some time with our lady-led Monday series.
Rule of Three Review, Digest Edition: Space Dandy 2, Akame ga Kill!, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun – Episodes 2-3
“Easy like Sunday morning,” my ass.
In addition to our many new shows, I’ve also got my sports show carryovers to watch (Baby Steps and Haikyuu!!), plus Sundays are usually my translation days, to say nothing of the cleaning and grocery shopping and annoying Adult Stuff I should be doing, so… Yeah, there’s a lot happening. You’ll have to forgive me if I cluster these, but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. And so…
Rule of Three Review: Aldnoah.Zero – Episodes 2-3
Saying that Argevollen and Aldnoah.Zero are both mecha anime is a little like saying Anheuser-Busch and Ommegang are both breweries. I mean, you’re not wrong, but…
Rule of Three Review: Tokyo Ghoul – Episodes 2-3
Rule of Three Review: Glasslip – Episodes 2-3
“High schoolers who can see the future” sounds like the recipe for a melodramatic disaster, but so far Glasslip is handling itself with sensitivity and grace – and slowly winning me over as it does.
Rule of Three Review: Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen – Episodes 2-3
Calling a show “competent” is really damning it with faint praise, but if the combat boot fits…
The Josei Next Door 