Just the Ticket

I've decided to do a crossover between  New Piece Offerings  and Anime-BAW  this week because of an anime that has gotten me thinking about animated comedy in a new light. I'm speaking, of course, about Chio's School Road . It's a slice-of-life comedy series that centers around the hardships and shenanigans of a socially awkward girl named Chio as she attempts to get to school on time. Each episode is split into two or three segments, each focused on a single situational gag, usually with a cast of no more than four actively participating characters. This may sound like any number of modern American cartoons that have cropped up in visual media recently, but it's an apples-to-oranges comparison when you think about it. To make a point, I'm specifically talking about two cartoons based on previously enjoyable, non-comedic--at least, not entirely comedic, and not always on purpose--licensed properties that have been given the fully comedic or comedic-action trea...

Hey, everyone! It's Old Comic Book Day again, and the Retrospective  has returned with some new material to whet your appetites. This is another miniseries, so I'm going to just put the TicketVerse Trades  stuff right up front for you if you'd like to avoid spoilers before getting into my commentary and analysis. Beyond Wonderland Digital Trade: Beyond Wonderland Includes the following: Beyond Wonderland #0-6 Beyond Wonderland Cover Gallery Calie Liddle's Diary Interview w/ Fantastic Realm Calie Statue Artist C.S. Moore And with that, on to my review of Volume Two of the Wonderland Trilogy, which includes some rules for going on the run that should be followed (however strangely Wonderland -specific they may be), but aren't because there has to be a plot or something. So, what do you do when you’ve started out your trilogy by Return ing to Wonderland ? You go Beyond Wonderland in the second miniseries, obviously! Well, at least that’s what ...

I had difficulty deciding what direction to take with this post at first because I hadn't seen the fourth season yet and thought about doing a spotlight on Full Metal Panic! as a series. But then I finally did  finish the Invisible Victory season..., and realized definitively that a return to Anime-BAW  was in order. I've already told you how bad I think the Fumoffu!  season is in my Anime-WTF?  spin-off series (which is that it's of such sub-atomic consequence to the plot and is so fucking terrible that it might as well not exist at all), so it gets no further consideration here. I only need three seasons or series to do an Anime-BAW , and I have enough to talk about without mentioning it again. So welcome back to #AniMonday, fellow weebotaks! Best: FMP! The Second Raid -- This is the third season produced of Full Metal Panic! , an action-dramedy anime about Souske Sagara, a socially inept former child soldier tasked with undercover bodyguard detail at a J...