Anime Review: Haikyuu!! Season Two

Apologies for going AWOL, last week was a bit rough, and there was a wedding involved, so I'm just shuffling around my book reviews so that I stay on track. Although, out of all of the material that I review, I have more books waiting to be talked about than anything else so that is a bit of a problem. I really don't have the energy to do additional reviews every week but at this rate it's going to be a race until the end of June for that "best books of 2015" post (yes I know I said initially it was going to be earlier but I'm still reading books!)

To the topic at hand, hurray, more sports anime that's fun above all else.! I feel like Haikyuu is also a really great example of how to make a shounen sports show for women, just give the characters personalities and the fans will flock!

Haikyuu!! Season Two

Movie Review: Miss Hokusai

Sorry for the delay, it's been a week guys. I have decided that the worst part of being an adult is not having breaks anymore, school breaks were really great. I mean, I'm glad I have weekends off now so I can see awesome movies but it's still not the same.

So, Miss Hokusai currently is not licensed in the US but somehow Otakon was able to have a special showing of it as part of DC's cherry blossom festivals (along with Up on Poppy Hill and Letter to Momo). I was pretty thrilled to have a chance to see it and really hope someone picks it up soon (it rather feels like a GKIDS film) so that everyone else gets a chance.

Miss Hokusai

Anime Review: Utawarerumono The False Faces

It's time to dive back into last season's offerings, and this series was a bit of an odd one for me, it's a sequel and I haven't watched the original! The problem is that I got into the show around episode six at which point anime-only watchers still weren't entirely sure how closely this would be related to the first Utawarerumono (and the original visual novel had been out for less than two months so there weren't many game players around to answer questions) so watching the sequel first was totally by accident. I dealt with it by reading a ton of spoilers (the wikipedia entry used to have a really detailed account but it was removed pretty quickly) but I'm not sure I would say I recommend watching the first Underwaterrayromano first since I don't really recommend watching this follow-up either!

Utawarerumono: The False Faces

Weekly Round-UP: April 10th-16th

Just a regular round-up this week! So to go through it quickly, no book review because I got to doing it and realized A) I wasn't 100% sure what the title was anymore (oops) and B) My thoughts could be summed up as "I'm not sure why the author felt the need to include two lines that indicated this was a 1001 Nights retelling and honestly the story was a bit too internal for me to like". Honestly I can sum up 70% of the things I review that quickly but typically I don't want to. This week's book is going to be a good one to talk about though!

So, I managed to get my Spring Anime 2016 Round-UP out on the day I meant to, also posted about the first two volumes of The Wicked and The Divine rather late (just tired and stressed), reposted my Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou review, and posted my Ring of the Nibelung review on OASG.

OH one more thing, I have finally "made it" in aniblogging, I was on my first podcast! Justin couldn't make the OASG podcast recording so I guest-starred with the other host Muse (who I did the "Shojo You Should Know" series last year) and gave "It's Not My Fault The OASG Podcast Isn't Popular!" it's first bleep! I actually swear a lot in real life so I tried to be more careful for the podcast but one shit just slipped though.... And hopefully convinced more people to watch Concrete Revolutio, 90% of my preparation for the podcast was trying to figure out how to explain that show succinctly and I think I did a pretty good job!

Comic Review: The Wicked and The Divine (volumes one and two)

While I haven't been watching a lot of movies lately I am been up to my ears in comics and manga! Part of this is that I on occasion remember that the DC library actually stocks current comic series and I finally had a chance to check out a series I had quite a bit of good buzz about. Actually, I only requested the first volume, as soon as I tore through it I immediately jumped back online for the second volume and I'm hoping they get the third trade soon!

The Wicked and The Divine written by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie