A Party of One The trend for so many popular series of the past few years has been to have social underachievers—often stand-ins for the author and/or perceived target audience—suddenly placed into a scenario where they are now innately excellent, who then proceed to exert …Read more »
The Gold Experience! Historians will look back on the year 2017 with scorn and revulsion, for it was a time in which the world was objectively drastically worse off compared to the prosperity period that was 2012 to 2016. This is of course because in …Read more »
Nearly a decade ago, I said were I forced to name just one title that represented the best that anime had to offer, I would probably pick Mobile Police Patlabor and lamented it being years out of print. Since then, things have changed. Right now, …Read more »
This seems to be the year that 50th anniversary commemoration projects end up being all the rage among new anime fans, and I couldn’t be more pleased. For in addition to the various Go Nagai anniversary works such as DEVILMAN Crybaby, Mazinger Z Infinity, and …Read more »
Spoofs of fantasy anime and JRPG tropes are by no means a recent development. Back in the 1990s, the two-part OVA Dragon Half was frequently praised as one of the silliest anime ever, and the longstanding fan rumor to explain why it only lasted two …Read more »
To say that Pop Team Epic’s brand of humor is not for everybody would be an understatement. If you spent enough time around enough anime fans online over the last few years, you are virtually guaranteed to have encountered fan translations of the webcomic Pop …Read more »
I never would have guessed that in the year 2018 the first anime title to generate a frenzied otaku reaction would be the latest revival of a Go Nagai classic from the early 1970s as interpreted by historically polarizing and noncommercial auteur Masaaki Yuasa, but …Read more »
I still can’t get over how one of the most popular and beloved anime titles of 2018 is one from Masaaki Yuasa of all people. For those wowed by the aesthetic of DEVILMAN Crybaby who are curious to see how much further their mind can …Read more »
Blood Blockade Battlefront and Beyond continues the anime chaos unleased in Yasuhiro Nightow’s imagination. One of my favorite anime series of 2015 was Blood Blockade Battlefront, and it isn’t solely because I’m a sucker for any show focusing on an elite unit of specialists stopping …Read more »
1974’s Space Battleship Yamato is considered among the greatest Japanese animated series of all time, revolutionizing not only anime itself but its promotion and merchandising. Inspired by its melodramatic sci-fi storytelling, several Yamato “maniacs” (so named before “otaku” was in common use) joined the anime …Read more »
I commend Seven Seas Entertainment for releasing the original Space Pirate Captain Harlock by Leiji Matsumoto, but perhaps Matsumoto’s art style and loose approach to continuity may feel too “old fashioned” to new fans. Harlock is ideal for a remake, but the various anime (and …Read more »
The depiction of Catholicism in anime is infamously light on accuracy, as fans of Hellsing or Trinity Blood can attest. Only about 0.4% of Japan is Catholic—being one used to be punishable by death—and so Christianity in general and Catholicism specifically exist in anime as …Read more »
The streaming anime service HIDIVE continues to expand its selections, not just for simulcasts and much of the Sentai Filmworks catalogue but also older, somewhat forgotten classics that would have stood little chance of seeing the light of day through other means. Just as was …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin features some of the most top-rate action animation made in years. “Prequel saga” is a phrase that, at this point, elicits otaku dread and disappointment. After all, how much do we really want to see our favorite heroes and villains …Read more »
The common, established wisdom says the mark of a terrible story is one that features a character with absolutely no flaws. Perfect at everything, unmatched in talent, and adored by all, such characters are typically seen as nothing more than idealized projections of the author …Read more »
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