This week sees two new Blu-Ray and DVD releases from Crunchyroll, namely Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie, as well as a cinematic release of My Hero Academia: You’re Next on 18th October 2024. Out This Week: 14th October 2024: Ranking of …
Togashi is back, and so is Hunter X Hunter on My Taste is Better Than Yours. Samu and I don’t agree all that often, but HxH is where our tastes pretty much intersect. This time it’s one of my favorite arcs, “Heaven’s Arena” – with a twist of “Zoldyck Family”. Thanks for watching, thanks for …
My Hero Academia: You’re Next Review When I first saw the trailers for My Hero Academia’s fourth film, You’re Next, I had one thing on my mind: who the heck is this fake All Might? Was this Dark Might guy supposed to be an evil twin or clone of All Might? Did the series really …
I’m not at all sure what to make of Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru. after three episodes. There are some seemingly contradictory elements to it, and it mostly dances around the edgier aspects of the premise (for now). It does have something going for it, no question. Noriyuki Abe is a first-rate director and it shows, …
I’m already ready for the next season. Impressions: I think they probably meant to start and end it with Kirara’s stuff, and names are easy to remember when they’re all dumb puns, but they just did her joke in the first third, and then she all but vanished as a character for the rest …
Ranma ½ is definitely clicking for me in a way Urusei Yatsura didn’t. Which isn’t a huge surprise, given that I hold the manga in higher regard. I’d forgotten that director Uda Kounosuke did Ginga e Kickoff among his many other credits, but he’s doing a great job capturing the zaniness of the original without …
