Anime Review: Black Rock Shooter (OVA)
Black Rock Shooter originated as an animated music video by Supercell. The OVA adaptation features the eponymous character and tells two stories. The first takes place in the normal world, where Mato...
View ArticleAnime Review: Trigun: Badlands Rumble
I suppose there’s a certain inevitability when you release a movie tie-in to an anime series that ended almost 12 years prior. Trigun: Badlands Rumble was probably doomed to mediocrity from the outset...
View ArticleAnime Review: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo) is the fifth major film by Makoto Shinkai. It’s a fantasy yarn about Asuna, a young girl living in a rural Japanese village, who visits a certain...
View ArticleAnime Review: Persona 4: The Animation
Anime has changed. It’s no longer about creativity, storytelling, or artistic expression. It’s an endless series of adaptations made by Koreans on computers. Anime – and its consumption of time – has...
View ArticleAnime Review: The Garden of Words
The Garden of Words is Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, returning to his favorite subject of star-crossed romances being jerked around by fate. I think it’s the emptiest of Shinkai’s films, but this one...
View ArticleAnime Review: Nisemonogatari
About a year and a half after releasing the final episode of Bakemonogatari, Shaft followed up with its sequel Nisemonogatari. Although shorter than its predecessor with only 11 episodes, watching...
View ArticleAnime Review: A Certain Scientific Railgun S
If A Certain Magical Index is a wild, unfocused exposition of superpowered fantasy, then its spin-off A Certain Scientific Railgun is a slightly more grounded work that mixes in character development...
View ArticleAnime Review: Wolf Children
I can’t help but to love Wolf Children. It’s partly a Ghibli-esque story about a young woman overcoming the challenges set on her by a demanding life. But it’s also a very un-Ghibli film about a single...
View ArticleAnime Review: Kill la Kill
I’m trying to write this review but the words that keep coming to mind are: Kill la Kill is awesome and you should watch it. When you get down to it, that’s really all that needs to be said. You might...
View ArticleAnime Review: Kantai Collection ~KanColle~
If you took 100 ordinary people and screened KanColle for them, you’ll find that it’s objectively kind of a nothing show. But I’m going to have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. All this probably boils...
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