Serious about noodling around (Warning: watching this show on an empty stomach will result in embarrassingly audible stomach growling, noodle cravings on an abnormal scale, and making ramen plans with friends.) Adapting the manga of the same name by Naru Narumi, Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen …Read more »
Spoofs of fantasy anime and JRPG tropes are by no means a recent development. Back in the 1990s, the two-part OVA Dragon Half was frequently praised as one of the silliest anime ever, and the longstanding fan rumor to explain why it only lasted two …Read more »
In Japan, the color blue signifies youth, a time of excitement and infinite possibilities. After graduating high school, Iori moves to Izu, on the coast, to go to college for mechanical engineering. “I’ll put all my effort into having the best college life possible!” he …Read more »
Ante up for thirst and double down on crazy in the Kakegurui anime! Yumeko Jabami transfers into Hyakkaou Private Academy, a school for the well-to-do and elite, where life-defining connections are made. The only measures of success here are how bad you want it and …Read more »
What scares you the most? Find out as the haunting world of manga author Junji Ito’s short stories finally comes to life in the Junji Ito Collection anime series. Imagine losing your loved one to a tree that grew from a wound on their body, …Read more »
Fullmetal Alchemist is a series nearly every manga and anime fan as seen in at least some form. It’s one of the shows fans tend to watch as a rite of passage. Viz’s new omnibus edition of the manga, Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, is a …Read more »
Director Masaaki Yuasa dives into the questions surrounding our very existence in Kaiba. No viewer familiar with the works of Masaaki Yuasa could mistake the director’s preoccupation with the human body. Whether it’s a fascination with bodies in motion—of the long and lithe physique of …Read more »
In Devil World, every halfway decent devil has a familiar, a helper animal like a bat or a salamander. Every devil, that is, except Patty: her familiar is a human being! Specifically, he’s Norman Volcanello, demon researcher, a hulking man in a well-pressed trenchcoat who …Read more »
The first season of volleyball anime Haikyu!! ended in a devastating loss for the players at Karasuno High. Despite all the progress they managed to make throughout the first 25 episodes, the wall that captain Toru Oikawa and the rest of the team at Aoba …Read more »
Eureka Seven never bloomed into a mecha franchise to rival cultural mainstays like its inspirations Gundam, Macross, and Evangelion. Early reception suggested it certainly had the potential: while it was a mess, it remained at all times throughout its 50-episode run an impassioned mess that …Read more »
I’ll admit, I straight up didn’t enjoy the first episode of the Pop Team Epic anime. What I’ve seen of Bkub Okawa’s original four-panel manga has been pretty funny, but I wasn’t feeling whatever they were going for in the adaptation. It didn’t take long …Read more »
When we last saw the members of the Mizusawa Karuta Club, Kanade and Tsutomu made Class C, Nishida Made Class A, Taichi was stuck in Class B, and Chihaya was not Queen. As a team, they did not win nationals but did make it really …Read more »
Space is the place to be in ID-0, a 2017 3DCG TV anime with direction by Goro Taniguchi (Planetes, Maria the Virgin Witch) and animation by Sanzigen. Set in the distant future, in ID-0 humanity has begun exploring and colonizing deep space thanks to two …Read more »
Oh, no! There goes Tokyo. And Shanghai. And New York City. And Paris, France. And Paris, Texas. And pretty much the entirety of the Earth’s habitable landmass. In fact, no quotation from a 1977 Blue Oyster Cult song can adequately sum up the degree of …Read more »
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 »
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