It’s the distant future. Humans no longer live on Earth, but on a manmade planet-sized spaceship called Sidonia. The roughly 500,000 people living on it are what’s left of the human race after being ravaged by aliens known as the Gauna. Knights of Sidonia tells …Read more »
Season 2, baby. Space Dandy is one of the most original anime to come out in years. It tells the story of a man named Space Dandy and his brave crew as they hunt for undiscovered alien species. They also die in every other episode. …Read more »
Daisuke Jigen is dead. If you believe that, Takeshi Koike has a Fiat 500 to sell you. He’s the director of Daisuke Jigen’s Gravestone , the new Lupin special out in Tokyo this week. This isn’t the first run-in Koike, the director of Redline , …Read more »
After a long hiatus, new volumes of Millennium Snow are coming out. The mangaka behind it, Bisco Hatori, is best-known and beloved for her Ouran High School Host Club series... and it was because Ouran took off that she had to put Millennium Snow to …Read more »
Typically monsters in stories are the bad guys, but in Monster Soul , they’re the heroes. Many years ago, humans and monsters fought a war, and it was the monsters who lost. Now they are oppressed by humans and humans try to poach them. Even …Read more »
To be honest, I walked into the screening of The Next Generation: Patlabor episodes two and three ready to write the whole thing off as a failure. I’d seen episode one and did not think too highly of it: it felt like another unnecessary, awkward …Read more »
I'm not a big fan of the term "slice-of-life." It either implies that nothing happens, or at the very least offers an excuse for someone to brush off criticism that nothing happens. That's not really the case with one of Vertical Inc.'s latest releases, Fumi …Read more »
For some time, the Castlevania series has been more at home as a side-scroller rather than 3D hack-and-slash, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is a grim reminder of what can transpire when a license is subjected to hackneyed ideas from a lackluster developer. MercurySteam's …Read more »
Yuichiro has had a hard life. His mother was so convinced he was the spawn of a demon that she killed herself. His father tried to kill him, and as a result Yuichiro was sent to an orphanage. Right after arriving, a virus wiped out …Read more »
After reading and loving Helter Skelter —particularly its loose, playful artwork—I couldn't wait to check out more from josei manga (women's comics) legend Kyoko Okazaki. Thankfully, Vertical saw fit to dig into the vault and release pink , which was originally published in 1989 and …Read more »
This month, one of the great anime films of all time and the theatrical directorial debut of one Hayao Miyazaki, 1979's The Castle of Cagliostro , had a limited rerelease in Japanese theaters. The film, set to be released in HD in Japan and America …Read more »
Looking back at the first two Wolfsmund volumes after finishing the third and fourth leave me with a greater impression of them both. They put in a lot of thankless work in setting up the story we've come to at this point, at the risk …Read more »
The brutality of the Berserk series returns many years later in film form long after the TV series concluded, and the animators at Studio 4ºC have taken up the task of telling the tale. The first movie s tarts in middle of a huge medieval …Read more »
More than anything else in the world, Thorfinn wants revenge against Askeladd, the Viking who killed his father. When Thorfinn was just a boy, he saw the murder right in front of his eyes—how Askeladd used a cheap trick in order to slaughter Thorfinn’s father, …Read more »
After three decades, the ultimate sci-fi male fantasy anime comes to the U.S. As I’m sitting here typing this, the final episode of Space Dandy has just finished playing on my TV. I can’t help but think that when Shinichiro Watanabe was working on this …Read more »
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