Sometimes a title helps sell a story, and by golly this is not Devilman: Book of Magic. Nope, the archaic word choice says this story is aimed at teenage boys who read Alistair Crowley and like Black Sabbath. If that sounds dismissive, it’s not meant …Read more »
your name. is an international phenomenon, joining the ranks of anime films from Spirited Away to Pokemon: The First Movie that managed to break into the American mainstream. The emotional journey of a boy and girl who find themselves switching bodies manages to avoid the …Read more »
Behind The Magic We’re always told that the sky is the limit, that we all will have that one “dream job” we aspire to land no matter what. For Aoi Miyamori, that dream job lies in the anime industry. She, along with her four best …Read more »
At Miss Weaver’s Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered, also known as Hollow Fields, madness and macabre are king. With classes like Killer Robot Construction and Live Taxidermy, this grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising and teaching the next generation of mad …Read more »
Blood Blockade Battlefront and Beyond continues the anime chaos unleased in Yasuhiro Nightow’s imagination. One of my favorite anime series of 2015 was Blood Blockade Battlefront, and it isn’t solely because I’m a sucker for any show focusing on an elite unit of specialists stopping …Read more »
The Fate series has always proved more appealing in theory than in execution to me. Its core conceit is brilliant: throwing figures of myth into a battle royale laden with arcane rules that exist only to be twisted taps directly into both our ancient fascination …Read more »
Since Sailor Moon first sparked a generation of magical girl-loving readers, it’s been released quite a few times in the West, from Tokyopop’s original MixxZine editions in 1998 to Kodansha’s reprinted and restored Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Now Moonies have a chance to read the …Read more »
How rapture and damnation alike can get bogged down in bureaucracy Office work is hellish in Hozuki’s Coolheadedness 2, a supernatural-comedy TV anime based on the manga by Natsumi Eguchi that chronicles the daily lives of the gods, demons, monsters, and other paranormal critters that …Read more »
Queen’s Quality is a sequel to QQ Sweeper and isn’t the best place to jump on board. If you haven’t read the previous series, it’s hard to catch up on the plot or get invested in the characters. While Motomi does a decent job of …Read more »
Fresh out of angel school, Gabriel is sent to Earth to help humanity. Once there, she becomes seduced by the pleasures of the flesh: playing video games, watching anime, eating instant ramen, and not bathing. In no time, she’s skipping out on her angel duties …Read more »
In theory, Japanese animation is a rich medium with a diverse palette of storytelling conventions and character archetypes. And to a large degree this is true—within just the past five years you can find dark fantasy (Attack on Titan), figure skating (Yuri!!! on Ice), and …Read more »
When Hana fills in for her older sister at an arranged marriage meeting, she’s introduced to Takane, obnoxious scion of the Takaba Group, a massive corporate conglomerate that can shake the economy with one word. After Takane insults Hana, she tosses her wig at him …Read more »
Hybrid x Heart is an unfortunate case of “what you see is what you get” when it comes to titillating manga. It features fantastic art and incredibly detailed costumes, but its overarching narrative is as flat as its protagonists’ chests are inflated. While there’s nothing …Read more »
1974’s Space Battleship Yamato is considered among the greatest Japanese animated series of all time, revolutionizing not only anime itself but its promotion and merchandising. Inspired by its melodramatic sci-fi storytelling, several Yamato “maniacs” (so named before “otaku” was in common use) joined the anime …Read more »
In Disboard, a fantasy world of vampires, angels and beastfolk, all disputes are solved by games instead of violence. Izuna, an eight-year-old girl with a fox tail and fox ears, is the ambassador from the beastfolk to the human kingdom of Elkia, presently ruled by …Read more »
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