Disclosure: The author was provided with a Genesis Mini console for review purposes. Mini retro-style consoles have been floating around for years, but most of them are third-party disasters that aren’t worth the budget price point. Nintendo changed the game when they released the NES …Read more »
Tenchi Muyo: the franchise that won’t stay dead. First showing up on the scene as an OVA back in 1992, Tenchi just keeps popping up with new TV series, spinoffs, films and sequels to the original OVA. That’s what we’re looking at this time: the fifth Tenchi OVA, and …Read more »
When you think of ’90s anime, which series immediately spring to mind? Even if you have a specific favorite, chances are it’s already either seen some kind of revival, or perhaps it never stopped running in the first place. After all, it’s not like we …Read more »
Last week, Kotaku unveiled a pretty amazing piece of long-form anime journalism about the quest to find a strange piece of 90s anime history—a pilot for an American Sailor Moon. Writer Cecilla D’Anastasio details the making, in the mid-90s, of a pilot based on Sailor Moon …Read more »
Man, being an anime fan in the 90s was something. Tapes (yeah, tapes ) were over 30 bucks and only had two episodes on ‘em, you had to choose between sub and dub, and the selection of stuff available in English was a drop in …Read more »
Everything old is new again. Lately quite a few series that had American anime fans enthralled in the 1990s are back in one way or another. Take Dragon Ball Z Kai , for example, the condensed version of the original DBZ series, or the new …Read more »
A promotional image from the new Sonic series Sonic Boom . For a character known for his speed, it's taken Sonic a while to hit the big screen. He's coming, though, apparently, thanks to Sony and producer Neal Moritz, who's developing the script to the …Read more »
Hollywood Reporter is reporting a film reboot of the Power Rangers franchise from Lionsgate and Saban. As you may know, the adaptation of Japan's Super Sentai franchise swept up a frenzy among American kids in the early 90s. (I was that age, and I was …Read more »
For fans of 90s anime in particular, the name Starchild is instantly recognizable. The anime arm of giant record label King Records, Starchild was involved with the financing and music production of a string of hits in the 90s, including Evangelion , Nadesico , and …Read more »
I think I have some kind of weird pseudo-nostalgia thing going on with The Slayers . I only saw a single volume tops of both Slayers and Slayers Next back when the videos first came out, but it's hung with me throughout the years as …Read more »
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