Tag: drama
Kimikiss Pure Rouge 22 – At Childhood’s End
As this show draws closer to the end, I’m realizing that it maybe, just maybe, doing for childhood what Honey and Clover did for post-adolescence:…
A Kiss and A Tear: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Harem! (Part 2)
This is the second part of an extensive dialogue that Owen and I conducted recently about Kimikiss and True Tears, where I ask most of…
Shigofumi 8 – You Give Writing A Bad Name
So we get Fumika’s origin story. Is it possible for an episode to have both visceral, emotional power and be so outlandish (and still unexplained…
True Tears 8-9: As the World Turns
This show continues to delight in the quality of its character interaction and writing, scored to some of the most appropriate BGM I’ve heard in…
The Catchup 3: Kimikiss Pure Rouge 17-20
Oh, Mao. You were my favorite girl in this show. How could you have become so dislikable?
The Catchup 2: Shigofumi 4-7
This is a show, in the end, that doesn’t fail to surprise–even if not all the surprises are (in my opinion) welcome. As the mystery…