Ohboyohboyohboy. Remember last month when Matt went to a Hatsune Miku concert in Japan, and the rest of us cried tears of jealousy for several weeks thereafter? The tears have slowly slowed to a complete halt since then, but now they are starting up again in tears of excitement. We…
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 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 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…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Shaft is a studio so wedded to avant-garde works –Mekakucity Actors and the Monogatari series spring to mind – that Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl initially struck me as an uncharacteristic instance of it animating a conservative franchise. Rooted in increasingly oversaturated high school slice of…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. I’ll readily admit I’ve never actually watched this show, but it’s a prime contender for the “Most Captivating Anime Name” award I just conjured up three seconds ago. The snappily titled Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl was originally released by NIS America early last year. This…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I was a big fan of the opening opus of Attack on Titan. Underneath its highly-refined popular anime art style and pacing was a series that offered something substantially more, beyond action sequences and filler between more action sequences. It still revelled in its violence, and…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Aniplex’s latest set is the set that will pierce your wallet. Announced at the company’s Nan Desu Kan panel in America over the weekend, the company revealed that it will be re-releasing the fan-favourite Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann TV series. The set will span five volumes…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Cinema from the South East of Asia has certainly turned ultraviolent films into an art form. The films that often defined Hong Kong cinema have since branched into fledgling film industries in Thailand (for example: the Ong Bak series), and now Indonesia. With The Raid finding international…
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