Review by Matt S. If any game deserved to be turned into an anime series, it is Persona 4. And as it it happens, it was turned into an anime, and it’s one of the finest anime ever made. One of the most complex game narratives ever made, Persona 4…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. The Bayonetta franchise is certainly going to have new eyes gazing upon it thanks to Platinum Games’ upcoming Bayonetta 2 on Wii U. It’s fitting, then, that the localised version of the anime movie Bayonetta: Bloody Fate will launching the in very same month as the…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. If you happen to fancy hundreds of pages of high-quality artwork, boy does Udon Entertainment have your back. In an announcement at Comic Con International’s official Udon 2014 panel over the weekend, the company revealed it would be licensing a whole slew of art books from…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Sega’s free-to-play JRPG/card game hybrid, Chain Chronicle, has been going strong for a solid year in Japan on both iOS and Android. As of late June, the game racked up somewhere in the ballpark of a whopping $72 million USD for its miscellaneous purchasable content. The…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Touko Fukami and her four friends watch the fireworks and lament over how it’s their final year of high school. Touko’s family runs a glass-blowing business and aside from that, there’s not much which sets her aside from other anime protagonists. She’s optimistic and energetic, but…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. Note: This preview describes an anime which deals with controversial and potentially offensive subject matter. While Terror in Resonance does not contain overt gore, violence or sexually explicit scenes, the first episode depicts a highly realistic terrorist attack from the perspective of the perpetrators, in which…
Read MoreImpressions by Clark A. Despite its popularity, the first season of Sword Art Online was met with rather mixed critical reception. Popular points of contention included a central protagonist deemed to be a Gary Stu, the show’s uneven pacing, and a second story arc deemed wholly inconsequential. Much as I…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Inou-Battle in the Usually Daze (Inou-Battle wa Nichijo-kei no Naka de) is an upcoming anime about superpowers…with a twist. Five members of Senkou High’s literary club are bestowed with various abilities ranging from healing living things to manipulating time and controlling the five elements. Rather than…
Read MoreImpressions by Matt S. A young boy has a crush on a girl, who he feels is out of his league. But they share an interest in the works of a specific author, and that gives the kid the confidence to talk to the girl. Next thing he knows he’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie was originally released in 1999, but it feels so much older than that. In demonstrating just how far animation has come thanks to the increasing role of technology in it, Cardcaptor Sakura feels more like a Disney movie of old than most…
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