Tag: Recommended, PAGE 2

Africa Salaryman [Anime Review]

A field day in the office Anime is no stranger to animating the working lives of regular people. Shows like Aggretsuko have shown that anime is willing to jump into our boring office lives and try to find entertainment in people sitting around a desk …Read more »

Somali and the Forest Spirit [Anime Review]

August 17, 2020

Gerald Rathkolb

A rarity of a show When it comes to fantasy anime, we are mostly treated to two distinct types. 1) A generic JRPG-style world complete with “classes” and enemies having “levels” (do they realize that levels are just a way of quantifying the concept of …Read more »

Giant Robo: The Complete Original OVA Series

August 11, 2020

Daryl Surat

The greatest OVA of all time? I have been saying it for decades, because it remains true. Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still is the greatest anime OVA series ever created. Nope, not Gunbuster. Not even Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It’s this …Read more »

Vinland Saga [Anime Revew]

August 9, 2020

Gerald Rathkolb

Unless you’ve been under a rock (kind of like me) you’ve probably come across some sort of article or radio show that keeps talking about how we are in some “golden age” and eventually you’ll hear the much-bandied about “prestige television” phrase that’s been thrown …Read more »

Dementia 21 [Review]

December 28, 2018

Shaenon K. Garrity

Chirpy, eternally hopeful young Yukie works as a caseworker for elder care company Green Net. Unfortunately, thanks to the meddling of a jealous colleague, the senior citizens she’s dispatched to care for are the toughest cases: difficult, dangerous, and frequently supernatural. Yukie’s assignments include a …Read more »

Revisiting Satoshi Kon’s Masterful Psychological Thriller, Perfect Blue

December 21, 2018

Brittany Vincent

In 1997, the late Satoshi Kon released what many would refer to as his magnum opus. It was called Perfect Blue, and it was written by Sadayuki Murai. Based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis from Yoshikazu Takeuchi, it was billed as a psychological …Read more »

Ran and the Gray World [Review]

December 21, 2018

Jason Bradley Thompson

Ran Uruma, a fourth-grader, lives with her teenage brother Jin and their father in their cluttered house. Ran dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps, which is no small dream, because Ran’s mother Shizuka is a powerful sorceress … so powerful that when she visits …Read more »

Megalo Box [Review]

December 21, 2018

Joseph Luster

Junk Dog is a bum with little room for positive forward trajectory in his life. Part of that has to do with his general way of living, but the rest falls firmly in the lap of his coach, Gansaku Nanbu. You see, Junk Dog is …Read more »

Robot Carnival [Review]

December 7, 2018

Austin Price

It seems impossible we’ll ever again witness an anime like 1985’s Robot Carnival. The last great anthology film, Short Peace, went almost entirely ignored. The last great anthology series, Space Dandy, was at best misunderstood, at worst excoriated. Not for its quality, mind: as Jacob …Read more »

Slum Wolf [Review]

November 30, 2018

Jason Bradley Thompson

Born into a poor family in 1941, Tadao Tsuge grew up in the chaos and poverty of immediate postwar Japan: a rundown Tokyo of open sewers and ruined buildings, populated by thugs, prostitutes, and occupying American GIs. In the late 1960s and 1970s, these memories …Read more »

Just Because! [Anime Review]

November 21, 2018

Joseph Luster

Originally revealed as an April Fools’ joke in 2017, Just Because! eventually came to fruition as an original anime TV series by studio PINE JAM (Gamers!, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mouiide-sukara), director Atsushi Kobayashi, and The Pet Girl of Sakurasou creator Hajime Kamoshida. The results are …Read more »

That Blue Sky Feeling [Review]

November 2, 2018

Che Gilson

Noshiro is used to changing schools and being the odd man out, so when he sees his new classmate Sanada being shunned by their class, he steps in to end Sanada’s loneliness. But things are more complicated than Noshiro realizes, and befriending Sanada sets him …Read more »

Tada Never Falls in Love [Review]

October 19, 2018

Ink

As an amateur but talented photographer, high school student and orphan Tada Mitsuyoshi lives to capture presented moments, but how will body guard-protected, foreign transfer student Teresa Wagner encourage or change his raison d’être? If you’re a fellow anime cynic, the very term “transfer student” …Read more »

Go For It, Nakamura! [Review]

October 19, 2018

Brittany Vincent

Sixteen-year-old Nakamura Okuto has just fallen in love for the first time. Not only is he head over heels in love with his classmate Hirose Aiki, but he’s absolutely clueless on how to act on those feelings. As he observes his blissfully unaware classmate every …Read more »

Juni Taisen: Zodiac War [Review]

September 28, 2018

David Estrella

Based on Nisioisin’s light novel and with a tip of the hat to Graphinica’s anime adaptation, Juni Taisen: Zodiac War is now a manga as well. Akira Akatsuki, the artist best suited for the job, once again collaborates with the prolific author five years after …Read more »