Review by Matt S. “Give me your panties so I can save the school – no, the world!” This is an actual line of dialogue from Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Superhero. It’s spoken as the titular teenaged “hero” asks a schoolgirl that he has a crush on for her underwear; which…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. There’s a certain glee in Majestic Prince which sets it apart from most other offerings in the mecha genre. While esteemed directors have long been mixing the namesake giant robots with politics, philosophy and melodrama, Majestic Prince moves that all to the side and instead focuses…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Sentai Filmworks has unveiled the next batch of anime releases to hit the shelves this December and it makes for one of more expansive lists of the holiday season. The company will be releasing no less than eleven titles within a sixteen day span. Said titles…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I must be a sucker for punishment. Immediately after finishing with Bakemonogatari (at least to a level where I feel like I understand it enough to move on), I leap into another anime adaptation of Nisio Isin’s Monogatari series of light novels. Not that I actually…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This anime could not have been easy to localise. In fact, I’m surprised that anyone even tried. Bakemonogatari comes to us from Nisio Isin, the young Japanese wordsmith who is rapidly developing a reputation for being something well beyond his peers in the light novel space.…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. Toradora is a romantic comedy with an endgame that is seldom in question after the first fistful of episodes. Against this handicap, the writers managed to tell an intelligent, multifaceted tale that enriches the premise to the point where the outcome will be the last thing…
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 MoreReview by Matt S. Back when I was in high school, if the girls’ skirts behaved like they did in Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor I suspect that the puberty version of me might not have got much study done. Actually, that’s unreasonable. It’s not like I was the best of…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. If Kill la Kill was 2013’s surprise hit, Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) was the same year’s unstoppable behemoth. It reeled in all audiences from devout readers of the manga to those who couldn’t tell Dragon Ball apart from K-On!. The increased visibility of the…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. While NIS America has had its share of quirky releases recently, it appears the company isn’t neglecting mainstream works either as it made an announcement today regarding a certain celebrated card collector. She’s among anime’s most identifiable shoujo protagonists and certainly one who those born the nineties…
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