Zipang 14/15 - Absolutley fantastic, i could not be happier. Some of the best atmosphere i have seen from an anime. The music, the scenery, the characters. They all just blended to create one super tense, action packed episode. Episode 14 is the Mirai vs. the Yamato. Two ships from different era's go head to head and it was bloody fantastic in execution. And no, none of them got sunk. Epsiode 15 saw the soldiers from the 21st century get down to the nitty gritty killing, it reminded me of scenes i've seen a million times over in other action flicks but it was still good and brilliant for character development. I'm now stuck at a crossroads for Zipang, it's been bloody brilliant so far. But my main issue is can it keep it up for that spectacular ending, these 15 episodes have been great to watch and i've been on the edge of my seat for most, if not all, of them. With 11 episodes left i'm just hoping they can keep this up and deliver that great ending.
Go watch this, now!
Hataraki Man 9 - I'm a bit worried about Hataraki Man. With two episodes left after this i'm looking back over the last 9 episodes and thinking, has anything actually happened. My answer, no. There is a bunch of character development in each episode but from this standpoint i'm looking back and seeing have any of the characters actually changed. They still work themselves to death and screwing up thier relationships because of it, but can this be changed by the last episode? Hataraki Man is episodic in it's delivery so it's hard to build up something we can see changing over time, or a goal that needs to be achieved. But none of them have really excelled, spare a few earlier episodes. To me it just feels repetitive at the moment with no sense of moving forward, this may change in the last two episodes. But if anything does i'll put money on it being rushed and crammed into a 10 minute slot.