The greatest OVA of all time? I have been saying it for decades, because it remains true. Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still is the greatest anime OVA series ever created. Nope, not Gunbuster. Not even Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It’s this …Read more »
What if scaling a massive tower meant you could have any wish you’d ever dreampt of granted in the blink of an eye? Would you still push yourself to reach the top, even if it meant facing off against some of the most difficult challenges …Read more »
Unless you’ve been under a rock (kind of like me) you’ve probably come across some sort of article or radio show that keeps talking about how we are in some “golden age” and eventually you’ll hear the much-bandied about “prestige television” phrase that’s been thrown …Read more »
At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to say that every season of My Hero Academia is substantially more exciting than the last. It’s a testament to manga author Kohei Horikoshi’s ability to continue ramping up the stakes and grounding the intense action, and …Read more »
Nichijou is both a furiously energetic comedy and a simplistic and endearing display about the trials and tribulations of everyday life. For an anime whose title roughly translates to mean “My Ordinary Life,” Nichijou, the 2011 spring adaptation of Keiichi Arawi’s popular slice-of-life/comedy manga, has a very …Read more »
What is it that causes teenagers to act the way they do? To lash out in anger. To go from being an outgoing child to an introverted young adult. Whatever the “affliction” may be, symptoms of youth in revolt come in many forms, and a …Read more »
It’s a terrible cliché, but films like Redline don’t come around very often. The popularity of sci-fi anime films seems to have died out with the rise of digital animation, but while Redline succeeds in appealing to old-school fans, it has plenty to offer newer fans as well. Takeshi …Read more »
Teamwork, self-awareness, and optimism Baseball and anime seem to go hand in hand, from classic works like Touch and Princess Nine to this year’s repeated team-ups between Gundam and the Pacific League. The spring 2019 anime season has gifted us with two baseball series on opposite ends …Read more »
Easy Rider There are very few series in the history of anime as simultaneously gentle and violent as Kino’s Journey. The 2005 anime series and its film and OVA counterparts adapted Keiichi Sigsawa’s light novels with a heavier eye to the former, though never truly undercutting …Read more »
It’s a gutsy thing to saddle any Gundam movie with the initials “NT” in clear allusion to the Newtypes at the core of the mythos, let alone a movie meant to serve as a direct sequel to Gundam Unicorn. Newtypes have always symbolized the next …Read more »
In a world without oceans or seas, humanity survives in settlements scattered across a vast wasteland, eking out an existence through trade and mutual cooperation assisted by a network of dirigible airships that transport essential goods among the outposts of civilization. But in this arid, …Read more »
Everything turns upside down Stories of time travel and time manipulation are a mainstay of sci fi and fantasy. In the 21st century they’ve become practically mainstream, to the point that bringing fresh content to the genre requires stepping outside the concept itself and using …Read more »
Way Out Truth be told I was a late convert to the church of anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara, and even now consider myself something of a skeptic. While I’ve since come to appreciate his unbridled artistry and technique as well as his utterly unique narrative …Read more »
A rather rude awakening Hitoshi Iwaaki’s disturbing science fiction horror series Parasyte took quite a long time to receive an anime adaptation, with the manga debuting in 1988 and the anime series beginning its first run in 2014. Dubbed Parasyte: The Maxim, it follows a 17-year-old student in …Read more »
Diving into a pool of nostalgia Anime for anime nostalgia’s sake is nothing new. Otaku no Video is the granddaddy of the subgenre, but plenty of series have followed in its footsteps. Whether as an aspect of the whole like Lucky Star, the entire point like Anime-Gataris, or a …Read more »
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