| 2:42pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 39 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy travels. Highlights: Just when you thought that the background artists couldn’t get any better, they surpass themselves. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Okay, the summary can be very short this time, seeing as this is one of these episodes where hardly anything happens.... | | |
| 7:33am | September Summary | | | | Overall, I don’t think I’m ever going to label the past half year as the best that anime can give. Instead, the past season stood out with its large amount of series that at first sight don’t seem to stand a chance, and yet turn out to be surprisingly solid and enjoyable. My top 10... | | |
| 5:55pm | Bonen no Xamdou - 11 | | | | Short Synopsis: The Zanbani is attacked by a number of humanforms. Highlights: Only 11 episodes and the cast is already developing. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 I must say, I’m very impressed with this episode. The cast is already connecting to a level that takes most series at least five episodes... | | |
| 1:45pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 38 | | | | Short Synopsis: Erm without going into spoilers: Porfy meets a market saleswoman in a town with horse-races. Highlights: Hard to say without going into spoilers, but let’s just say that stuff that’s typical of the World Masterpiece Theatre happens. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,75/10 Awesome... | | |
| 10:15am | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 37 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy meets an old dog who stubbornly keeps following him. Highlights: An episode for the animals, and what a lovely episode it is! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Awww, that was such an adorable episode. It was incredibly cute and at the same time the conclusion was so powerful and... | | |
| 8:34pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 36 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy meets a masked woman who lives together with a terrible sister. Highlights: The series’ attempt at mystery turns out pretty nicely. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 The key to having a successful episodic series is knowing that you can play with your own concept. Because the... | | |
| 7:46pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 35 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy gets caught in a rainstorm. Highlights: Talk about different from a usual Porfy-episode. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Whoa, instead of the usual travelling stories, this episode goes to tackle existentialism and throws a critical eye at religion. This probably was the most... | | |
| 6:40pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 34 | | | | Short Synopsis: Porfy arrives at a town with some strange customs. Highlights: Porfy’s back! New background tunes! Awesome background art! Thought-provoking story! Increased pacing! No “I need to save you”-subplot! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Okay, I think the phrase “IT’S... | | |
| 12:46pm | Ultraviolet: Code 044 - 10 | | | | Short Synopsis: Luka (or what’s left of him) makes his re-entrance in this series. Highlights: Mostly build-up, but an episode well-spent with lots of eye-candy. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Well.. so this week I decided to not watch the low quality raws from horribleraws (since these also... | | |
| 6:39am | August Summary | | | | August has definitely been an interesting and at the same time strange month. I keep seeing everywhere that the past Summer Season has disappointed, but I just can’t agree with those statements. Sure, there’s no absolute masterpiece airing now that Kaiba ended, but there are actually lots... | | |
| 8:48am | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 33 | | | | Short Synopsis: It’s back to travel-arcs as Porfy runs into a bunch of streetpunks. Highlights: A travel-arc it may be, but there’s plenty of development for Porfy. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Okay, so the inevitable happened: this series returned to the travel-arcs. Still, this episode... | | |
| 2:32pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 32 | | | | Short Synopsis: This episode had an onsen-sequence. Now that’s going to attract some viewer (not). Highlights: That Carlos is a walking time-bomb. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Sarcasm aside, this episode rocked. I expected this series to go back to lacklustre travel arcs again, and instead... | | |
| 7:12pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 31 | | | | Short Synopsis: Will Porfy be able to find Mina in Rome? Highlights: World Masterpiece Theatre: masters at delaying the inevitable. Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10 Holy crap! Mark, you were absolutely right: the creators had no intention to reunite Porfy and Mina so easily whatsoever, but they made... | | |
| 12:35pm | Porfy no Nagai Tabi - 30 | | | | Short Synopsis: In Rome, Porfy and Apollo continue to search for Mina, as he meets a poor woman with a similar fate. Highlights: So! Much! Foreshadowing! Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 Now THIS is exactly what I’m talking about! Forget the Sicily-arc or the Maximilian-arc. THIS is exactly what... | | |
| 10:59am | Himitsu ~The Revelation~ - 17 | | | | Short Synopsis: Two policemen end up murdered. Highlights: Solid episode, and a bit more background on the MRI-team. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 Christ, this episode took bloody ages to come out. I finally managed to locate a version of this episode on Share (Perfect Dark didn’t help much... | | |
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