I commend Seven Seas Entertainment for releasing the original Space Pirate Captain Harlock by Leiji Matsumoto, but perhaps Matsumoto’s art style and loose approach to continuity may feel too “old fashioned” to new fans. Harlock is ideal for a remake, but the various anime (and …Read more »
When you think of the funniest characters in Naruto, Sasuke—the brooding loner whose mission in life was to kill his brother Itachi—probably doesn’t come to mind. But Rock Lee already had his own comedy spinoff manga, so now it’s Sasuke’s turn! As in the original …Read more »
Love, Time, and other Dimensions! There are some anime theatrical features in the world that downright refuse to be ignored. They’re the classics that are immediately rattled off to anyone who says that anime has never produced anything of substance, anything so breathtaking that it …Read more »
Ah, the shonen battle formula; it’s one of the crown jewels of anime storytelling. When you think of shows like Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Boku no Hero Academia, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, what you’re seeing is a type of manga prone to emphasize manly fights and …Read more »
Last year, Kodansha published the English edition of Neo Parasyte F, a collection of manga tributes to the legendary horror manga Parasyte. All the contributors to Neo Parasyte F were shojo manga artists, and it was fun (not to mention bizarre) to see cute shojo …Read more »
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching anime, it’s that, sometimes, the best anime don’t need any source material. The anime industry doesn’t really have the wiggle room for original works, which makes anime-first works such treats to watch. Take, for example, the likes …Read more »
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 »
Iron Blooded Orphans is the most dramatically effective entry in the Gundam series since 0080: War in the Pocket, a suspicion I’d felt while watching the series as it aired and one affirmed totally after watching Bang Zoom!’s dub of the first season over the …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 »
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 »
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