Tag: April 2020 issue

Mai Mai Miracle [Anime Review]

A thousand-year dream arrives after 10 Sunao Katabuchi established himself as the bona fide successor (but not imitator) to his old mentor, the late Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli fame, with 2016’s In This Corner of the World. The extended edition, In This Corner (And …Read more »

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix: Perfect Collection [Anime Review]

August 11, 2020

Daryl Surat

Osamu Tezuka is often called the “god” of manga and anime, having pioneered many of the modern conventions and production methodologies still in use today. His works remain resonant to modern audiences; 2019’s anime adaptation of his 1960s work Dororo was one of the year’s …Read more »

Giant Robo: The Complete Original OVA Series

August 11, 2020

Daryl Surat

The greatest OVA of all time? I have been saying it for decades, because it remains true. Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still is the greatest anime OVA series ever created. Nope, not Gunbuster. Not even Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It’s this …Read more »

Nicola Traveling Around The Demons’ World [Manga Review]

March 3, 2020

David Estrella

Nicola Traveling Around The Demons’ World is a storybook fantasy about a little girl who, for one reason or another, has been transported to a land full of monsters. Call it a fairy tale, call it an adventure, just don’t call it isekai because it’s …Read more »

No Guns Life [Manga Review]

March 3, 2020

Daryl Surat

In No Guns Life’s cyberpunk future—which in 2019 is best explained as “socioeconomically just like today, but there are full-body cyborgs”—controlled by the Berühren Corporation, the Extended are people who have undergone body augmentation to become living weapons. But the war in which they fought …Read more »