Case Closed Reviews: Fall 2013 / Spring 2014

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First impressions are great but what about our thoughts after we’ve watched an entire series week to week? We figured our listeners might want to hear our final impressions as well so we’ve created the Case Closed Review podcast. Just like the S.W.A.T. Reviews, these will be mini-podcasts and completely off the cuff.

Here are the 3 shows we finished from the fall and spring seasons:

Listen – Final impressions of Yowamushi Pedal from TMS Entertainment. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Final impressions of Ping Pong the Animation from Tatsunoko Productions. It is streaming on Funimation and Hulu.

Listen – Final impressions of One Week Friends from Brain’s Base. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

 

The June 2014 Line-Up

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narutaki_icon_4040 It is time for all the simulcast announcements though in a weird twist they seem concentrated on a few key shows. Hopefully the first week of July will give us the rest of the new season of anime.

hisui_icon_4040 Part of me always wonders if there are two people at Discotek who have a bet with each other that they can get the most people to say, “I can’t say I expected that!” whenever they announce a title. There are hardly bad choices but you can’t say that they are in any way easily predictable.

The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of new anime, manga, light novel, artbook licenses, streaming/broadcasting announcements, crowdfunding projects, anime/manga projects, and live-action anime/manga adaptions.

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Special Edition NYC 2014: Show Floor

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narutaki_icon_4040 My hopes for Special Edition NYC was somewhere between the Artist Alley of NYCC and the atmosphere of MoCCA Fest. The space ended up having more dealers than I really expected, but then what I was expecting was sort of none. A few publishers occupied the front with the dealers while the back half of the pavilion featured the artist tables. This divide at least made it easier to quickly jump to the main attraction: artists; after I cantered through the mostly bland and repetitive dealers section.

In some crazy twist of fate, I actually walked away from Special Edition NYC with only one new button. Most artists were concentrating their efforts on little comics, full-size graphic novels, sketch books, original artwork and the like which reminded me of MoCCA Fest. But unlike MoCCA Fest there was more mainstream comic artist presence, many of whom were selling original pages which of course I could only glance at.

As always I found myself attracted to a variety of styles and small items.

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