Recent content by Professor Irony

Dorohedoro s1 (rewatch, English dub) ep4-12 + OVA Well that went down easy - didn’t think I’d finish rewatching the first season so quickly, but my enthusiasm for the show remains un diminished. I think what really makes Dorohedoro is the sheer charm of its characters; in another series, just...

Fist of the North Star (2026) ep1 Okay, deep breaths. You really can’t talk about this one without talking about the CGI. It certainly doesn’t look great; the decision to use hard black shadows all the time on the character models is broadly accurate to the look of the manga, but just looks...

Dorohedoro ep1-3 (English dub, rewatch) Rather than start straight into the second season, I thought I’d rewatch the first run of Dorohedoro beforehand. I still really enjoy the show; with its quirky, grungy setting, endearing characters and casual attitude to extreme violence, I think it...

Frieren S2 ep8-10 [end] Always a pleasant watch and never short of small, witty asides, but I do feel this season has been more like a hangout show or a clutch of short stories than the first. I don’t mean it as a complaint, but it does seem to conspicuously lack any significant plot...

Steel Ball Run ONA1 Mad to think we’ve actually got this now, it feels like the Jojo fans have been clamouring for it for years! With Stone Ocean, I accidentally spoiled myself on the ending and rather lost interest in it as a result (Netflix’s release schedule didn’t help either), so I’ve...

It always surprises me that they never tried to make any more Battle Angel Alita anime, but apparently the author was just not interested in pursuing it further, and that was the end of it.

Much as I like the first Patlabor film (would probably rank it among my favourites, in fact), I think that’s a fair point about the ending. Once Hoba’s scheme is exposed, there aren’t really any further revelations in the story, it’s just the climactic action sequence followed by Oshii shouting...

Frieren or Die Hard S2 ep2-7 The second season has been quite a gentle affair so far, so it came as a bit of a surprise to see how good the animation was when they got back to doing action again. Sudden reminder that this is, in fact, by Mad House. BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!! Ep1-3 Not exactly...

Arise is watchable enough, it’s just very forgettable and suffers the unenviable task of following on from SAC… My own favourite episode for the 2nd Gig is still Make Up, I think Paz provides a very different protagonist for the series from either Kusanagi or Batou and his episode has a more...

Yeah, I’ve seen a few negative comments, but mostly I would describe the reception as mixed to positive. I’m completely fine with them doing other stories in the universe or as AU content, my only thought is that I’d rather they go for an all new cast of characters than coming back to Shinji...

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Nouvelle Vague (2026) Frustrated by the sight of his various contemporaries’ success with making their own feature-films, Cahiers journalist and self-styled cinephile Jean-Luc Godard (Guilliame Marbeck) finally convinces his producer friend to bankroll him for a modest crime-drama based on a...

Trigun Stargaze Elf Bar ep3 Not quite ready to drop this completely, but I think at least I’ll shelve it until it’s all released. I’m not against a new adaptation trying to do something different to the original, but I’m not convinced they have anything suitably compelling to replace what...

It’s anime, ‘good’ might be a stretch Dan Da Dan was fun. Call of the Night also fills a distinctly Monogatari-shaped hole in the schedules.

I didn’t mind it, but I definitely get where you’re coming from. There are bits and pieces in there that work quite well, but overall I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was looking at episode one of a TV series, and perhaps that format might have allowed them more space to further flesh out...