With the sheer volume and range of experiences the anime industry offers today, it’s easy to view animation studios as faceless entities or ones puppeteered by charismatic individuals. And yet, it regularly takes dozens upon dozens of bit players to bring even the nichest of productions to fruition. While animators…
Read MoreHigh school student Yū Otosaka has a superpower every ten year old school-goer would surely envy; he can manipulate those in his vicinity by inserting his consciousness into their body. And presumably like most ten year olds, his application of this skill is reserved for personal gain. In the span…
Read MoreIt might be the middle of summer, but I can already feel that cool draft settling in. A new Dragon Ball movie always makes for an eventful night on the town, especially now that series creator Akira Toriyama has been actively involved in the production of recent films. It’s good…
Read MoreSummer might be prime time for relaxation and get-togethers ‘round the barbie but seldom has the season been a poor time for anime. During the last half-decade especially, a number of killer titles on both ends of the popularity scale have made their debuts, several of which rank amongst my…
Read MoreIf any label could encapsulate the sheer zaniness of Chronicles of the Going Home Club, it’s “pure comedy”. Tempting as it is to lump it in under the ever-broadening umbrella of “school comedy” for the sake of categorisation, doing so does a disservice to both the show and its potential…
Read MoreWell. This anime is a bit of a problem for me. Jormungand quite literally heroises an illegal arms dealer and her organisation. An organisation that is so bereft of a moral centre that it, quite literally, recruits a child soldier into its ranks. As the kind of guy who isn’t…
Read MoreI was worried going in to Highschool DxD New Season 2. After all, I hadn’t seen the original season, and I was certain that a series with such a complex and in-depth narrative such as this one would make it difficult for me to catch up with the events and…
Read MoreI guess this was inevitable. Taking the generals and heroes of the Sengoku period of Japanese history (the same time period that the Samurai Warriors games take place within), and presenting an alternate history that revises almost all them into attractive ladies is a distinctly anime thing to do. If…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve reviewed a couple of the Monogatari series now, and I’m a big fan of the way the series manages to mix philosophy, wordplay, and extreme fan service together in a way that is refreshingly unique for anime, and quite striking. It’s not just the visual…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Puella Magi Madoka Magica’s greatest asset is its aesthetics. This is a story about the battle between good and evil (as played out between magical girls (good) and witches (evil)), with the witches inhabiting special extra-dimensional “labyrinths,” and these labyrinths are so insanely surreal that they’re…
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