Kill la Kill , the much-lauded, little-clothed Studio Trigger anime directed by Gurren Lagann ’s Hiroyuki Imaishi, is heading to Adult Swim’s Toonami February 7. Kill la Kill is, of course, the story of badass, giant scissor-wielding high school student Ryuko Matoi and her talking, …Read more »
The official Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime website is now open, and with it comes an English-subtitled preview of the OVA's first part, Blue-Eyed Casval. The first of four parts tells the tale of Casval Rem Deikun, AKA young Char Aznable, and Artesia Som …Read more »
Good news for Attack on Titan fans: more anime is on the way. A lot more, in fact. First up is an OVA series planned for the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. The catch: it's a pretty short. Still, Titan fans hungry for …Read more »
Moving is Hell. As I write this all of my worldly possessions (including the entire Vault of Error) are neatly packed into twenty-three 68 liter plastic storage bins of various colors ranging from a manly gunmetal gray to an even manlier radioactive fuchsia. So consider …Read more »
There’s a new Legend of Galactic Heroes anime on the way. Legend of Galactic Heroes , a sweeping space opera novel series by Japanese author Yoshiki Tanaka, was the basis for a long-running original video animation directed by legendary animator Noboru Ishiguro. An epic achievement, …Read more »
Another year is over and somehow, despite my best efforts to streamline and condense my DVD collection, the anime continues to overflow my shelves, threatening to burst the hinges off the Vault of Error. 2013 is dead and gone, leaving me with little more than …Read more »
If the prospect of more Rurouni Kenshin has you all jazzed, look no further than the first trailer for the upcoming Shin Kyoto-Hen OVA for some brief relief. The first part will debut in Japanese theaters on December 17 in advance of its home video …Read more »
Allow me to make this abundantly clear: everything you will ever read about Birth is a lie. The ad copy on the back of the DVD case mentions a ruined world, a war between the planet Aqualoid and “an invading army of mechanical monsters”, and …Read more »
That’s Metal Skin Panic: MADOX-01 for you, another one-shot OVA from those halcyon days of yore, the Nineteen Eighties, when anime didn’t have to make sense and when dedicated animators poured their blood, sweat, and tears into making sure every cel of a firing howitzer …Read more »
We’ve already invented time-travel, but it only works in the forward direction. And that’s what The Humanoid is: the proof of the process, a time-traveling, coffee-flavored bullet that has crossed nearly a quarter century of space and time to lodge itself irrevocably in the center …Read more »
Funimation dished a couple of announcements fresh out of Katsucon this past weekend, one of them concerning the acquisition of To . To is a sci-fi OVA directed by Fumihiko Sori. Sori's previous animated work includes Appleseed (producer, 2004 film) and Vexille (director). He also …Read more »
Good news for fans of Mazinkaiser , and giant robot enthusiasts in general, comes out of the June issue of Hobby Japan . The magazine announced the return of the completely badass spin-off to Go Nagai's legendary Mazinger Z . Details are currently about as …Read more »
Fans of classic armored action got a treat under their tree on Christmas morning—or at least a video under the... URL bar—in the form of two streaming promotional videos for Sunrise's upcoming Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc ( Sōkō Kihei VOTOMS: Gen-ei Hen ). Phantom …Read more »
Coming a whopping 26 years after Ryousuke Takahashi's Armored Trooper Votoms originally aired, Sōkō Kihei VOTOMS: Gen-ei Hen ( Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc ) is an OVA that aims to close out the long-running series for good (which could just mean "for now" for …Read more »
To today’s anime fan, the OVA, or Original Video Animation, a piece of work made for the home video market, is an essential and everyday staple of the medium. You’ll see OVAs developed to hawk popular manga, utilized as sequels for existing works, and used …Read more »
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