Blue Box Ep. 20 "As One of Her Closest Friends" has a bit of a emergency happen with the local school's Snow White play. Mostly due to the prince being a no-show. Fortunately, Taiki is there to save the day as a substitute prince! With some interesting complications for his love life considering
Blue Box Ep. 19 "I've Got Plans" is the day of a cultural festival: a kind of open campus festival typical for Japanese schools, and is thus typical of school-focused slice of life anime in general. As it turns out, this anime is no different from them. However, it does have the advantage of that
Blue Box Ep. 18 "I Know" has Taiki engage in a badminton battle of the century against Shūji Yusa. All in spite of the fact that it's a practice match and theoretically not as important as an actual match. Theoretically, that is. If you think about it though, it's great prep for those real matches
SAKAMOTO DAYS is getting amazingly popular in spite of how new it is. Honestly, it's a testament to how good the story of this anime is, which itself is based off of the manga of the same name by Yuto Suzuki. Fans of that manga will recall the ridiculous yet awesomely over-the-top action scenes
Blue Box Ep. 17 "Of Course I Want to See It" has everyone preparing for their respective sport/event. However, it's definitely Hina who has the spotlight in this episode. Especially with the level of effort she's putting into playing Snow White in a high school play. Blue Box Ep. 17 "Of Course I
While Blue Box Ep. 16 "Unfair Woman" still has a significant focus on Taiki, it seems that Chinatsu is more the central character of this episode. All thanks to an interesting opinion of her actions, and from her own mother too. Viewers may disagree with the opinion that indecision is an unfair
The Apothecary Diaries has the cast finally begin to prepare for the incoming locust plague in Ep. 52 "The Last Volume". Sure, they could've prepared much sooner. However, without the intel gained in this episode, those preparations wouldn't have been nearly as guided as they are here. Now it's
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
