This week sees a variety of new releases from Anime Limited, Crunchyroll and MVM Entertainment, with our highlights being the Collector’s Edition 4K UHD Blu-Ray of THE FIRST SLAM DUNK from Anime Limited and A Certain Magical Index III on Blu-Ray from Crunchyroll. Out This Week: 24th March 2025: A Certain Magical Index III (Blu-Ray) …
Short form commission #2 from Nicc is a piece on the Japanese vending machine phenomenon. It’s a sort of companion piece to the konbini article of a few months back. Of course that was full-length, and while it’s sort of fitting for a piece on vending machines to be short, that’s going to be the …
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Season 2, Episode 10 Review Shy girls; there’s just something about them in anime that makes them endearing. Their lack of confidence in themselves and what they can do makes many anime fans naturally want to root for them. We want to see them break …
I noted last week how strange it was that Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun seems to draw very little commentary, despite being both popular and well-reviewed. Another notable thing about it – it’s extremely difficult to screencap. From a blogging perspective this show is brutal, because simply put I just want to screenshot everything. It’s an extraordinarily …
Let me start by saying this: I love Okitsura. Love, love, love it. This series has as much heart as anything I’ve watched in ages. No question about it, Okitsura is a rarity for me. I almost never write-up shows I didn’t cover at all, even in a First Impressions post. I picked it up …
To paraphrase George Costanza, I could use the break. First off, no – we didn’t get an official Season 2 announcement here. So technically this post should have been labeled as a “Finale and Series Review”. But we all know it’s going to happen. Ao no Hako is a commercial hit and a WSJ property, …
