The world of light novel publication is a fast and furious affair where imitation is the highest form of flattery. When an idea hits it big, you can bet your bottom dollar (or your smallest yen coin) that a slew of series with similar premises …Read more »
It’s nigh impossible to capture lightning in a bottle, but the 2014-2015 TV anime The Seven Deadly Sins succeeds. An excellent adaptation of a popular fantasy adventure manga, The Seven Deadly Sins is the perfect balance of overpowered action, slapstick comedy, and honest human drama. …Read more »
In 1993, Studio Ghibli teamed up with Nippon Television in a project designed to give younger animators a platform with which to express themselves artistically. The result was Ocean Waves (known in Japan as Umi ga Kikoeru , or “I Can Hear the Sea”), an …Read more »
Something is rotten in the city of Yokohama. Factions of super-powered individuals secretly vie for control of the city, with sporadic outbreaks of gang violence sometimes escalating into open warfare in the streets. A young man named Atsushi Nakajima is tossed headlong into this shadow-war …Read more »
It takes a special breed of villainous bureaucrat to renege on a promise to a group of high school girls after they've just won the athletic championship that was supposed to save their school from closing down, but that's exactly the premise that puts the …Read more »
In Taboo Tattoo , a 2016 action TV anime with direction by Takashi Watanabe and animation by J.C. Staff, Justice “Seigi” Akatsuka is an ordinary middle school student with a penchant for martial arts and a strong moral sense in favor of his namesake. He …Read more »
It is a world where evil organizations kidnap people and transform them into cybernetic weapons against their will. It is a world where demonic entities lurk in the shadows, ready to possess and consume human souls at the slightest sign of weakness. It is the …Read more »
Decades ago, during the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture, the builders uncovered several mysterious Artifacts of unknown and possibly extraterrestrial origin. In the present day, a research facility sponsored by the United Nations has been established to study these Artifacts, resulting in …Read more »
In A Little Snow Fairy Sugar , Saga is a hyper-competent, hyper-organized girl who lives with her grandmother in the (fictional) walled town of Muhlenberg, Germany. Between school, a part time job at the “Little Me” coffee shop, and visits to the local music store …Read more »
In BBK/BRNK (pronounced “Bubuki/Buranki”), a 2016 action anime TV series directed by Daizen Komatsuda and animated by Sanzigen, Azuma Kazuki is a young man on a mission. Banished a decade ago from his childhood home on the mysterious Treasure Island, in the present day Azuma …Read more »
In a mythical age before the separation of the material world and the spirit world, the realm of Britannia is a place fraught with peril. Not only do monsters stalk the dark places where no civilized being would dare to tread, but the Seven Deadly …Read more »
Rumi Yokoi is a diligent, hard-working high school student who wants nothing more than to buckle down and study during her scholastic career. Unfortunately for this serious-minded young lady, the young man seated at the desk adjacent to hers is Toshinari Seki. Seki doesn't seem …Read more »
The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
At the beginning of Utawarerumono: The False Faces , a confused young man wanders aimlessly through the snowy wilderness, barefoot and wearing only what appears to be a thin hospital gown. Soon the poor fellow is attacked by a colossal centipede and a gigantic blob …Read more »
A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body, or so the saying goes. Unfortunately for the average person in Soul Eater , there are creatures that want to devour these sound souls, and they’re willing tear the body and rend the …Read more »
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