Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Earlier today, NicoNico streaming event “Seek at Mekakucity” revealed that a new Kagerou Project anime title is in the works. Though details are [...]
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Mekakucity as a whole was a pretty good anime. It presented some interesting themes, had some great (albeit very overused) visuals and a very good soundtrack (no duh given the source material). It was [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Last season, Mekakucity Actors was one of the more popular shows to hit Japanese airwaves. The tale of gifted people brought together by fate, [...]
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he incidents which occurred on August 14th and 15th bring a group of young boys and girls together... They are members of a group they call themselves the "Mekakushi Dan" (Blindfold Organization) and [...]
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Boy oh boy, did I love Mekakucity Actors. To be perfectly honest here, I’m probably a tad bias toward this series since I respect it’s origins...
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This is review number two hundred and eighty. This anime is part of the Spring 2014 lineup. The anime I’ll be reviewing is called Mekakucity Actors. It’s a twelve episode anime about a bunch of people [...]
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Mekakucity Actors didn’t really meet our expectations—it just never came together—but it had, quite simply, one of the most beautiful ending sequences of the year. Even in a show based upon and [...]
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The elephant in the room whenever I’m talking about a series like Monogatari, ef, Sasami-san@Ganbaranai or, in this case, Mekakucity Actors, is the director Akiyuki Shinbo. I have tried and usually [...]
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Volume 2 release of the anime series Mekakucity Actors will be out on 9 July 2014. Contains Episode 2. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary The incidents which occurred [...]
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As the last nail in the coffin of the Spring season comes the show that ended a while ago already but which I conveniently chose to forget about. The show that Asumi Kana and Nakahara Mai were unable [...]
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Ugh, SHAFT. This one is based on a collection of songs. I watched the music video for one of the songs and it was better than any of the episodes, even though the music wasn’t that great. So I’m not [...]
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Now that Momo and company have been rescued, it's time for the gang to make good their escape and take on the "final boss" in this finale of Mekakucity Actors. With the entire cast assembled, the [...]
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While I recognize the wide appeal of the music of this show, I found the meandering, anecdotal lyrics to be tiresome and less deep and clever than they thought they were. That, along with a stubborn [...]
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(Note: Episodic notes are still mostly to be found on the Episodics Notes’ page, but up to a couple every week will have their write-up appear on the main page, when I think they warrant it. For those [...]
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Last week's episode taught us a lot in terms of filling in the gaps within Mekakucity Actors (aside from the most important gap of all, of course, that being the reason why this show is garbage), so [...]
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Volume 1 release of the anime series Mekakucity Actors will be out on 25 June 2014. Contains Episode 1. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD. Plot Summary The incidents which occurred [...]
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Mekakucity continued its freewheeling M.O. of jumping from flashbacks to the present and from one group of characters to another, shedding more light on how they got to where they are, where they’re [...]
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Our perspective shifts once again for this week's Mekakucity Actors (who saw that coming?), as we witness a woman and her daughter waiting for the return of the latter's father... something which, it [...]
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It’s been abundantly clear for some time now that Mekakucity isn’t particularly interested in presenting a linear narrative, preferring to blend episodes of the present with glimpses of the pasts of [...]
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(Note: Episodic notes are still mostly to be found on the Episodics Notes’ page, but up to a couple every week will have their write-up appear on the main page, when I think they warrant it. For those [...]
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