I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for anime that focus on the unique personality of real-life settings—shows like Tsuritama (set on the island of Enoshima), The Eccentric Family (set in Kyoto), and Durarara (set in Ikebukuro in Tokyo). Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha (2014) …Read more »
Sex, drugs, ultra-violence and lots of fan service. Since the late 1990s, late-night Japanese TV has been the host of a new breed of TV anime, one that has skirted all rules of socially acceptable behavior and successfully reached the airwaves by the sole virtue …Read more »
All but the iconic crescent of the Moon has been obliterated, and even less could remain of Earth unless Class 3-E’s collection of misfits and underperformers can kill the super-powered perpetrator. As it so happens, the tentacled terrorist who’s threatening the world just became Class …Read more »
People are strange when you’re a stranger, but when you are acquainted, sometimes they’re stranger yet. In any random assortment of people, there’s bound to be an oddball or two. But to wind up in a group consisting of nothing but those with a few …Read more »
Thought you were done with end-of-year lists, did you? Just one more, we promise: this one was too interesting to pass up. We bring you a lot of lists sharing the opinions of your Japanese anime-watching peers, but they’re often limited to rankings of characters …Read more »
Talk to a Star Trek fan and chances are almost 100% that they’ve at least seen the original series from 1966 (that was nearly 45 years ago!), even if they only just recently became interested in the property thanks to the 2009 movie. Similarly, newly-made …Read more »
This story hails way from way back in the December 2008 issue of Otaku USA Magazine . Since the issue is out of stock at our online store and basically impossible to obtain if you weren't a subscriber back then or didn't pick it up …Read more »
On this final day of 2015, forgive us one more best-of list, won’t you? This time, it’s from the guys over at Anime Anime, who have asked their readers to rank the top ten anime films of 2015. And just what did they choose? 10. …Read more »
Ah, end-of-year lists. Many, they are. Our favorite pollmasters Charapedia have gotten in on the end-of-year game by asking their readers: who were the best characters of 2015? The rules were pretty simple: the characters didn’t have to be new, they simply had to appear …Read more »
Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful ... and refined ... and filthy, stinkin’ rich.... Okay, maybe a smidgen of jealousy would be understandable, but it’s not all roses for high school freshman Wakaba Kohashi. With her father constantly on the move for work, whatever his …Read more »
As exclusive as its name sounds, Myojo Private School is an institution defined in the surrounding skyline by a heavens-reaching testament of polished steel and flawless glass protected by power and money. Yet even this pristine educational facility for privileged, grade school- through college-aged children …Read more »
Charapedia, the Japanese site making a name for itself throughout the internet for its relentless polling of the anime fan populous is at it again, and has asked its readers this time, “who are anime’s most negative characters?” Through good times and bad, these characters’ …Read more »
“Fake it till you make it.” A blunt, somewhat cynical piece of advice, not always wise to follow, that you’ve surely come across before. If, for example, a timid fellow were to put on a show of confidence for an extended length of time, perhaps …Read more »
Take one part TRON , one part The Last Starfighter , mix with a bit of Hello Kitty , spice liberally with fan service, and then top with a mountain of frosting and sprinkles and you’ll get something along the lines of Show by Rock …Read more »
The magical girl genre is near and dear to my heart, and I’ve followed it for quite some time. I started with Sailor Moon when I was a child, then I dabbled with Magic Knight Rayearth and cheered on Madoka in the impeccable Puella Magi …Read more »
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