Splatoon makes you wonder who it’s aimed at: people who have never played the game, or players who didn’t read the manual. At this point in the review there should be a synopsis of the plot. However, Splatoon has no plot. Nor does it have …Read more »
The depiction of Catholicism in anime is infamously light on accuracy, as fans of Hellsing or Trinity Blood can attest. Only about 0.4% of Japan is Catholic—being one used to be punishable by death—and so Christianity in general and Catholicism specifically exist in anime as …Read more »
The thing lands on a prehistoric world. It’s a probe, sent by some kind of alien intelligence, but organic and alive. It can take any shape, though it needs practice. It’s indestructible. It becomes a wolf, then a boy. It dies over and over. Very …Read more »
Seiichi Hayashi might be one of the most famous manga artists you’ve never heard of. Not only was he a prominent member of the avant-garde art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, but Hayashi also made “geki-ga,” comics that rebelled against kid-friendly manga. Red Colored …Read more »
The streaming anime service HIDIVE continues to expand its selections, not just for simulcasts and much of the Sentai Filmworks catalogue but also older, somewhat forgotten classics that would have stood little chance of seeing the light of day through other means. Just as was …Read more »
On going to a new, prestigious high school, Akira learns that her childhood best friend Fumi has moved back to town and is going to a nearby school. Now much taller than the cute, bubbly Akira, Fumi is no less prone to strong emotions, insecurities, …Read more »
One of my favorite things about anime is how it can make the mundane seem ridiculously dramatic. The Great Passage is about putting a dictionary together. To be clear, I’m not talking about reassembling scattered shards of a sacred tome or combating kanji-turned-kaiju with giant, …Read more »
After 300 years, the evil Demon King Giri has broken free from his imprisonment, ready to threaten the peaceful land of magic with all of his power. The King calls forth the land’s greatest heroes to fight this menace. What he gets, however, is Nike, …Read more »
Over the past decade, superstar manga team CLAMP has been revisiting its older work, reviving xxxHolic, Legal Drug, and now its iconic 1990s magical girl series Cardcaptor Sakura. Sakura and her friends, originally elementary schoolers, are now in junior high but still cute as buttons. …Read more »
What would you get if you wanted to write a love story but, rather than put together a complex fairy tale or Shakespearean tragedy, decided to start with the climactic confession scene? You’d probably get Tsuredure Children, which, in its first episode alone, showcases not …Read more »
At Hyakkaou Private Academy, a school for the rich, gambling is everything. A caste system separates the high rollers from the impoverished masses, and when bourgeois Suzui loses a game of poker, he drops to the lowest ranks of the school hierarchy and ends up …Read more »
Tamaki has no degree, no qualifications, and no parents, but she does her best to find a good job so she can pay for her younger brother to go to college. One day, after a strange encounter with two men, she gets a job offer …Read more »
Ditzy high school student Aries Spring is super excited for her class trip to Planet Camp. For one week a group of random students gets to camp on a planet without adults! The team bonding exercise also entails a challenge and this year it’s babysitting …Read more »
The side story nobody asked for Few modern anime endings have prompted the angst and speculation of 2006’s giant robot drama Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. After 50 episodes of political intrigue, wild twists, and Pizza Hut product placement, the series concluded with one …Read more »
It’s a theme common in the Universal Century Gundam series that Earth is the birthplace of all conflict. To remain on Earth when we are capable of space travel is to find, as Char has it, “(our) souls … pulled down by [its] gravity.” The …Read more »
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