The future is in our hands! After years of being suffering pariahs in a bleak anime world devoid of the light that only a gambling apocalypse can bring, we can finally legally watch the two seasons made to date of the most beautiful ugly puppy …Read more »
This may be hard to believe, but once upon a time “shojo” wasn’t automatically synonymous with “teen girl romance.” There was variety! You could have mysteries and action/adventure stories with girls as the lead characters, and—get this—some of these stories featured minimal romance, or none …Read more »
This current decade has been quite the phenomenal one for a character who made his anime debut roughly 45 years ago courtesy of an author whose pen name is ”Monkey Punch.” In the past six years alone Lupin the Third, anime’s greatest thief, has found …Read more »
© 2011 Production I.G, CLAMP / Project BLOOD-C TV / MBS The 2011 Blood-C anime (which had no direct continuity relationship with Blood: The Last Vampire or Blood+ ) has gained infamy over the years, thanks in no small part to its savagely gruesome finale. …Read more »
Recently there was a series called Young Black Jack. Billed as an origin story for Osamu Tezuka’s famous creation, the title suggested we’d learn about what made him become an unlicensed rogue surgeon to begin with. Instead, what we got was him doing what he’s …Read more »
Several of the most popular anime in recent years are courtesy of Aniplex producer Shinichiro Kashiwada, who helped bring Puella Magi Madoka Magica , both installments of Sword Art Online and Oreimo , The Irregular at Magic High School , and more to fruition. We …Read more »
The following phrase is not one I’ve bothered saying for the last decade: the new Mobile Suit Gundam TV series is actually rather enjoyable so far! Iron-Blooded Orphans is an “alternate-universe” Gundam series, which means it’s set completely stand-alone from any other anime with Gundam …Read more »
Prison School is pure id, the sort of utterly shameless concept whose unprecedented levels gives self-styled “art connoisseurs” the necessary levels of disdain they need to continue functioning. Early in the career of manga author Akira Himamoto, his editors tasked him with creating Me and …Read more »
What if Superman was incredibly lazy and bored? Saitama’s an unemployed and somewhat dimwitted slacker who happens to be the most completely and utterly invincible superhero of all, sporting a garishly silly costume very similar to Anpanman’s. Why, he trained so hard to gain power …Read more »
I feel as though I could write a book on all of the things that were done incorrectly with regard to the handling of Mobile Suit Gundam and its various sequels and spinoffs in the United States. Perhaps, between all I’ve said the past few …Read more »
It seems like only yesterday that I was declaring Fullmetal Alchemist to be the undeniable top anime of the 2000s, but in fact over a decade has passed since then. Multiple new generations of anime fans have come—and gone—in the time since, so to everyone …Read more »
World Trigger took a few volumes to grow on me, but Shonen Jump finally has its Naruto and Bleach successor (meaning those are officially allowed to END!). Ever wish a shonen manga made the “underdog that has to train hard and really struggle for his/her …Read more »
Mid-1990s America was a time before high-speed Internet was available in homes, when owning movies was relatively uncommon due to cost. Nationwide video rental stores thrived. They would frequently offer a small section of “Japanimation,” where it would not be uncommon for violent pornography such …Read more »
Talk to a Star Trek fan and chances are almost 100% that they’ve at least seen the original series from 1966 (that was nearly 45 years ago!), even if they only just recently became interested in the property thanks to the 2009 movie. Similarly, newly-made …Read more »
Of all Spring 2015 TV anime, if I had to pick one most likely to be remembered in five years, Blood Blockade Battlefront is it [because Ninja Slayer is a web series]. The anime adaptation of the latest manga from Yasuhiro Nightow ( Trigun ) …Read more »
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