Anime | Vahan Arsenyan

Cowboy Bebop

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shinichirō Watanabe and Yoko Kanno built a show out of moods. Every episode is its own short film — genre-hopping, tonally precise, anchored by a crew that never overstays its welcome. The finale is one of the landing-the-plane moments other shows still chase.

See you, space cowboy.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The benchmark long-running shōnen. Brotherhood is the adaptation that finally follows the manga end-to-end, and it shows: every faction, foreshadow, and side character lands by the finale. Hiromu Arakawa wrote one of the tightest ensembles in the genre, and Bones gave it the production it needed.

Hughes. That’s it. That’s the post.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Starts where most fantasy stories end — the demon king is dead, the party disperses. What follows is a quiet, devastating meditation on how humans live shorter lives than elves care to notice. Madhouse’s direction and Evan Call’s score do a lot of the heavy lifting.

The Mimic episode alone is better comedy than most shows manage in a full season.