Before Panty & Stocking with Garter Belt pushed the boundaries of good taste, before Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann redefined struggle on a cosmic scale, even before Neon Genesis Evangelion rewrote the rules of the mecha subgenre, a studio of fans-turned-animators known as Gainax made waves …Read more »
Strange things are afoot on the science fiction world of Gift, the setting for the original 2015 TV anime Comet Lucifer, which is directed by Yasuhito Kikuchi and Atsushi Nakayama and features animation from 8-bit. Set sometime in the indeterminate future, Comet Lucifer takes place …Read more »
Thousands of years ago, three gods working in tandem created the world: Orntorra, the god of the future; Towitorra, the god of the present; and Bantorra, the god of the past. Perhaps the gods grew displeased with their creation, because they disappeared soon afterward. Only …Read more »
Ryuko’s victory would be assured, if only Senketsu’s battle form weren’t so … revealing. Fear is freedom. Subjugation is liberation. Contradiction is truth. Fashion is fascism. Clothing is humanity’s original sin. These are the truths of this wild and crazy world. Welcome to Kill la …Read more »
Tired of drifting aimlessly through deep space while being pursued by unrelenting foes, the generational seed-ship Sidonia decides to take the fight to the alien creatures known as the Gauna. The ship plots a course for the Lem Star System, in the process committing to …Read more »
The month of October stirs strange desires in the breasts of every person who grew up enraptured by Halloween, so what better time is there than now to venture among the cotton cobwebs and the ten cent plastic spiders in the cinematic crypt known as …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 »
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 »
Let me tell you about an experience that marked my tragic descent into otaku-dom: The year was 1996 and six teenage anime fans, three male, three female, were on a kind-of, sort-of triple date. The six of us gathered at the home with the least …Read more »
I don't recall the circumstances that led to me struggling to explain Luna Varga to my 61-year-old mother. That's not the sort of thing that anyone will warn you about in advance. No one is going to take you aside and inform you that part …Read more »
The problem with evil overlords is that they spend entirely too much time lurking in their ill-lit, Gothic-arched castles, grooming their widow's peaks and rehearsing their maniacal laughter. Just once I'd like to see a tyrannical demon-king with a nice summer cottage by the sea, …Read more »
Like Emperor Tyrannus, the supreme commander of the super dinosaurs, my editor Patrick Macias is a master of mesmerism. It’s the only explanation for how some of the silly things that Patrick does on the Internet have such a profound effect on my conscience. In …Read more »
Moving is Hell. As I write this all of my worldly possessions (including the entire Vault of Error) are neatly packed into twenty-three 68 liter plastic storage bins of various colors ranging from a manly gunmetal gray to an even manlier radioactive fuchsia. So consider …Read more »
Sometimes the only response to the existence of something stupefying is to shrug your shoulders and say: “Hey, it was the Eighties.” This phrase could be the mantra of Battle Royal High School , not to be confused with Battle Royale , the book by …Read more »
Another year is over and somehow, despite my best efforts to streamline and condense my DVD collection, the anime continues to overflow my shelves, threatening to burst the hinges off the Vault of Error. 2013 is dead and gone, leaving me with little more than …Read more »
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