***Spoilers ahead***

There is a scene early in this forty-episode series where a man cleans leather tools with systematic, unhurried care while conducting a political negotiation in the other half of his brain. You don't understand what you're watching until much later, when a flashback reveals he was preparing materials to make wrist guards for his wife's birthday. Which was also his farewell gift. Which he knew, and she didn't.

This is how *Pursuit of Jade* operates. It hides its…

Glass Heart contains a genuinely good show buried inside a slightly exhausting one.
Takeru Satoh commits completely — physically, vocally, down to the last molecule — and Keita Machida as Sho is quietly the most interesting person on screen for ten episodes. The music is excellent throughout; RADWIMPS' Yojiro Noda knew what he was doing.
The problem is the script's insistence on explaining what the music already does perfectly well on its own. "Find your sound." "Feel it inside you."…