I’m… starting to wonder if I was mistaken about this series. My impression was that I’d be getting a slimmed-down, all killer/no filler version of the legendary romance between hapless college student Yusaku Godai and pensive widow-turned-landlord Kyoko Otonashi.  Compared to the overlong 96-episode anime series that started out strong, but was waylaid by filler.  […]

Thinking back on it, we shouldn’t have been too surprised by the fact that Denji’s new girlfriend, Reze, turned out to be a Devil.  If she had been a normal human and genuine in her intentions towards him then the only options are that she hangs around to potentially get fridged by a devil or […]

In case anyone was wondering if I could actually review a volume of this series without waiting for a week’s worth of them to build up first, the answer is yes.  Yes I can. With that out of the way, vol. 22 picks up immediately after the events of vol. 21 as now that Asirpa […]

Seiichi decided at the end of vol. 5 that it would ultimately be better to go back and deal with his mother rather than stay on the run with Fukiishi.  It isn’t long before he runs into his mom, who is out searching for him, and they go back home where she’s got a warm […]

Yeah, no points for guessing one of the series I’ll be talking about here.  Yet it’s only one out of five that have made it into this particular rundown.  If you’re wondering what the rest of them are, just know that they involve two gay guys, a wannabe king, the most hapless crossdresser in manga […]

Eizouken overcame their most dire challenge as a school club, being allowed to actually exist, in the previous volume.  Now that they’ve been recognized as a club that actually makes anime, it’s time for them to start making some.  Doing so comes with its own complications, however, once Eizouken is asked by the Robot Studies […]

You know… When I started reading this series, I wasn’t expecting to read a storyline where Minare and a couple of co-workers head out to a rural village for research, fall into an aqueduct via trapdoor, and are recruited by a cult to spread their dogma.  Dogma that happens to come with a side of […]

It was one thing for the opening pages of vol. 1 to imply that this was going to be a story about a girl and her relationship with a giant monster that was clearly Not Godzilla.  It wasn’t until the very end of that volume where it became clear that’s  exactly what this story was […]

There’s lots of good stuff at the beginning of vol. 18 and towards the end of vol. 19.  Stuff like how the cast tries to figure out how to tie a cherry stem into a knot using only their tongues.  Or with Chika getting a case of PTSD when she offers to train Ishigami in […]

Last time I wrote that I wasn’t expecting to use the word “surprising” when I wrote about my thoughts regarding vol. 8 of this series.  Now, after having read vol. 8 in its entirety, I have to say that’s still the case.  Much of the volume consists around the Quin Zaza’s chase regarding the legendary […]