When did travel montages become such a pervasive anime thing? Quasi-Impressions: I gave up on Bye Bye Earth early this season because the break had made its baffling writing go from sort of amusing in a trainwreck or awful improv way to just tedious. Plus a number of shows this season had strong starts which …
Third Window Films have recently revealed that they will release Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami as a Blu-Ray (and digital) box set on 25th August 2025. Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami brings the films Alone in the Night, Angel Guts: Red Flash, A Night in Nude and Original Sin and presents them in …
NIS America have today announced that the latest chapter in The Legend of Heroes franchise, known as The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon, will be delayed until January 2026 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 & Windows PC in Europe and North America. While that is bad news, there is some …
Wednesday Campanella, one of Japan’s most unique pop groups, has recently released the official Music Video for the song “Summer Ghost” ahead of the European Tour next month. Additionally, the song Summer Ghost is the opening theme song for the upcoming anime Kowloon Generic Romance which is available to simulcast stream on Crunchyroll. Wednesday Campanella, …
Patterns emerge over the course of a series’ first cour. The first of at least two and what I hope will be many, in Illegals‘ case. For a spinoff it comes down to identity, more or less. The identity of Vigilante is pretty clear at this point. And that identity is closely tied in to …
It’s been a funny old season for Aharen-san wa Hakarenai. Palpably less engaging and less hilarious than the first for me, albeit still impossible not to like most of the time. Inexplicable amounts of time spent on trivial characters and their problems (we both know the main culprit here), all the more so given that …
