Tag: Space Brothers
Anime roundup 8/23/2013: Your Princess Is In Another Reality
In this week's viewing: Space Brothers gets drop-kicked, Day Break Illusion causes a lecture on honorifics, and more!
Anime roundup 8/16/2013: Take Heart
In this week's viewing: Hunter x Hunter lays on the foreshadowing, Space Brothers, of all shows, does something mindbogglingly, cringingly offensive, and more!
Anime roundup 8/9/2013: The Zero’s Journey
Hunter x Hunter #90 - Nodding to old sf tropes once again, the new Chimera Ant king is after both braaaaaaaains and our...
Anime roundup 8/2/2013: Take a Number
Gatchaman Crowds #3 - This is the first sf work I know of to grapple full-on with the implications of widespread social networking....
Anime roundup 7/26/2013: The Safety Dance
Gatchaman Crowds #2 - Gatchaman Crowds has declared its thesis topic, which is the gamification of human interactions as mediated by the Internet.
Gamification...
Anime roundup 7/19/2013: Expository Lumps
And now, the rest of your season premieres! For those who were eagerly awaiting Symphogear G or the new Milky Holmes, I regret to...
Anime roundup 7/5/2013: The Moving Finger Writes
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, end - By golly, they managed it. The big fight scene and enough time left over to wrap...
Anime roundup 6/28/2013: Fall of the Guardians
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet #12 - Is it an act of insubordination if you refuse the orders given by your superior officer's...
Anime roundup 6/21/2013: The Great Chain of Beating
Hunter x Hunter #84 - One of the recurring features of shōnen series is a tendency to look at characters exclusively through who...
Anime roundup 6/14/2013: Strange Aeons
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet #10 - So the magical glowing trails from which all the fleets of Earth draw their electricity are,...
Anime roundup 6/9/2013: Meeting the Enemy
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet #9 - Now Ledo knows what, or rather who, he's been fighting... almost. The descendants of the human/squid...
Anime roundup 6/2/2013: Graduation Day
Hunter x Hunter #81 - Watch that fight scene in isolation, and it's just another case of insanely exaggerated martial arts. But watch...
Anime roundup 5/26/2013: In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Hunter x Hunter #80 - The Chimera Ant queen has just collected the brain of a man so misanthropic that he founded an...
Anime roundup 5/19/2013: Ant Misbehavin’
Space Brothers #57 - Everyone caught that piko-piko is the Japanese onomatopoeic equivalent to "beep", right? So we all know how the author...
Anime roundup 5/12/2013: Failure Analysis
First, some big news for those of you in Spain and Portugal: Crunchyroll expanded its offerings for you as of May 9th. The specific...
Anime roundup 5/3/2013: Photoeugenic
Hunter x Hunter #77 - Giant ants! Giant mutant intelligent ants! Giant intelligent ants which eat people and then practice Lamarckian evolution! I expect...
Anime roundup 4/28/2013: Tribal knowledge
Hunter x Hunter #76 - Hunter x Hunter was previously adapted for TV in 1998-1999 for a series that ran to the middle of...
Anime Roundup 4/21/2013: Fee Fi, Ho Hum
More international streaming sites have announced their spring simulcasts, and I'm afraid it looks like the entire world will get to see a couple...
Anime roundup 4/14/2013: This Will Be on the Test
A big stack of first looks this week, and then it'll be time to make decisions about what to add for the regular weekly...
Anime roundup 4/7/2013: Stop the World, I Want To Get Off
First, a little awards news: Nominees for the Seiun for Best Media (roughly equivalent to Hugo nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation) include two anime...
Anime roundup 3/31/2013: You Are In a Maze of Twisty Little...
From the New World, end - If there has been one theme running through every episode of From the New World from the beginning,...
Anime roundup 3/24/2013: High Anxiety
Space Brothers #49 - Yes, international viewers who may not be familiar with the southwestern US, there are rattlesnakes near Amarillo, and yes, if...
Anime roundup 3/17/2013: Showdown time
So here's how this works: Every week, I commentate on the latest episodes of various anime series, and then we all discuss further in...
The story so far: Space Brothers
Hello there! I'm going to be doing weekly discussions of current sf anime episodes and previews of upcoming shows in this slot. Since we're...