Maria Kawai, the lead character of A Devil and Her Love Song , remains an enigma for the first volume. She’s been expelled from her previous school — for beating someone up, apparently — and at her new high school, she’s quickly the victim of …Read more »
Four years ago, back in 2008, first-time anime series director Sayo Yamamoto debuted with Michiko and Hatchin , a phenomenal television show with solid characterization and a distinct visual and aural style that in my mind seemed like a no-brainer for US release. I was …Read more »
The year is 1966, and Kaoru Nishimi's move from Yokosuka to Kyushu is a bit of a culture shock. Suddenly this honor roll student is inserted into a world that he hardly understands. Seriously, that Kyushu dialect is tricky. It's clear from frame one that …Read more »
Normally when a new series debuts I'm ready to jump right in for a first look, but opinions were so brutally split on Mysterious Girlfriend X ( Nazo no Kanojo X ) that I decided to wait for the second episode. Turns out that wasn't …Read more »
Do you like girls with guns? Great! Do you like girls who are guns? Because that's what you get with Upotte!! , a new series that takes moe and gun fetishism and pops then in a blender free of any sense of shame. This is …Read more »
Now that March Madness is over, and more than seven months stand between ourselves and more NCAA men's basketball, it might just be the perfect time for Kuroko's Basketball to start airing. Even those who couldn't care less about sports can find something to enjoy …Read more »
Love means never having to say I’m sorry for hideous bodily mutilation, because nothing sours the romance of the moment quite like sprouting teeth from some place that teeth were never meant to be. Of course, when dealing with an animator like Yoshiaki Kawajiri, hideous …Read more »
With the second collection of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan upon us, we're out of the setup stage and ready for a full volume of Shonan antics. It's not all Onizuka running around beating up punks with a horse mask on his head, however. Things …Read more »
There are numerous anime/manga series that are hugely popular in Europe, but not particularly well known in North America. Amongst the series that earn more appreciation across the pond is Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure . Much of Europe loves Araki’s magnum opus, and Araki …Read more »
If it's not 197x and you're animating something created by Leiji Matsumoto ( Galaxy Express 999 , Captain Harlock ), you have your work cut out for you. This is no fault of Matsumoto's, but his art is just something that doesn't tend to mesh …Read more »
The 12th and final volume of Kou Yaginuma's Twin Spica manga is upon us at last, and it's a bittersweet farewell to a series that hopefully hasn't fallen under the radar for too many. It's a rare treat to follow a story from beginning to …Read more »
As if to atone for the mixed bag of last year’s fighting game movies, 2012 is being bombarded with tons of new fighting games. Seriously, look at the list of things released/to be released this year: Soul Calibur V , Street Fighter X Tekken , …Read more »
A Letter To Momo (2011) had its American premiere in a digitally projected English-subtitled showing on March 3, 2012 at the IFC Center in Manhattan as part of the New York International Children’s Film Festival. It was produced by Production I.G. and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, …Read more »
Sometimes it’s fun seeing an old friend get a new look to appeal to a new crowd while retaining what made her special in the first place. Such is the case in the newest American release of the Dirty Pair OVA series. Some of my …Read more »
Oosawa doesn’t have time to think about love or marriage. He works full-time at a restaurant and is also a single parent taking care of a kindergarten-aged daughter. His wife walked out on him and Oosawa’s top priority is making sure his daughter Chizu is …Read more »
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