Naota's got it rough. Robots and aliens and laser guns, the usual anime protagonist fare. That’s all there, front and center, but he’s got other problems. Nobody wants to pay attention to him. Nobody gives him any credit. He’s smarter than every adult around him. …Read more »
Assassination Classroom , the live-action film based on the manga of the same name, revolves around a fantasy that’s run through the head of every junior high school student at least once: killing their homeroom teacher. In Assassination Classroom , though, the teacher is a …Read more »
The Vault of Error is both a physical space and a state of being. On one hand, it refers to my collection of anime home video media, a horde of DVDs and Blu-ray discs that still threatens to overflow my living space. This Vault of …Read more »
If you’re a fan of supernatural series and you haven’t already picked up Mushi-shi , you really should. Finding really good supernatural tales, the stories that are really evocative of the otherworldly, where the supernatural is integral to the story and world rather than tacked-on, …Read more »
A friend of mine once described the 1998 anime classic Cowboy Bebop as an “anime for people who hate anime.” I suppose in many ways then, Samurai Champloo is an animated samurai film for those who can’t be bothered to check out jidaigeki or “period …Read more »
Here we’ve got yet another buried treasure of Japanese animation, bubbling back to the surface thanks to the reticence of a certain King of the A$$holes World, James Cameron. Superstar producer/director Cameron has a lot of irons in the fire, and when he announced his …Read more »
There are times you’ll hear people refuse to touch certain shows because of how dated they look. But sometimes, that isn’t really all that bad. In fact, when you get older, those dated shows become something precious and dear to your heart like an old …Read more »
Ken Sugimori is a cool dude. You might think the guy who helped co-create Pokemon would be a little arrogant, spending his days in some kind of ivory tower, sleeping on top of large piles of money, and generally being a media gadfly. But if …Read more »
In the latest issue of Otaku USA , Ink waxes poetic about Your lie in April , the A-1 Pictures anime based on the original manga by Naoshi Arakawa. The story follows piano prodigy Kousei Arima, who no longer has the ability to play like …Read more »
In an alternate history, after Japan emerged from the post-Occupation period, widespread civil unrest led to the militarization of the police force, especially the heavily armed Capitol Police Special Unit known as the Kerberos squad. Equipped with intimidating body armor and massive machine guns, the …Read more »
In a future “10 years from now” when “now” was “the late 1980s/early 1990s” such that nobody has mobile phones and everyone still watches VHS tapes, pilotable robots have been adopted for construction labor and thusly branded “Labors.” But accidents happen, and due to the …Read more »
Diabolik Lovers is an anime adaptation of an otome visual novel franchise, and the way one approaches this title could have a real effect on how one ends up feeling about it. The main character Yui is a high school girl who goes to live …Read more »
Volume 15 of the popular manga series, Attack On Titan , was released in Japan on December 9th. To fuels the needs of fans salivating for new Attack On Titan animation until the release of the second season (and to undoubtedly keep the money machine …Read more »
This review does not contain spoilers of the movie, but does contain spoilers for both seasons of the series. Prior to the release of Psycho-Pass: The Movie , which premiered in Japan last week, the big question on the minds of many fans was whether …Read more »
Now that it has a nice solid dozen episodes under its belt, it's a little easier to take in the World Trigger anime and see how things are going. After spending some quality time with the show, it's fair to say Toei Animation's adaptation of …Read more »
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