This week sees a wide variety of releases from Anime Limited and Crunchyroll with highlights including 86 EIGHTY SIX from Crunchyroll and Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – Part 1 from Anime Limited. As a reminder My Hero Academina: You’re Next is still screening in cinemas across the UK with tickets available through the website. Out …
Uzumaki Mini-Series Review During the spooky season of the year, I like to ignore my usual tendency to avoid horror and find things freak me out. The problem is that there’s still that upper limit of what I can tolerate before I get too scared to sleep. I’ve gotten better at pushing that limit as …
Ranma ½ is another of those series in the Patron Pick election (hey, it’s election season – Japan is having one today). And spoiler, it’s doing quite well. I don’t know if it will win but it definitely has patrons – including a few who said “I like it the best of those five but …
I made the comparison between Shogun and Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite earlier. And I think it’s absolutely valid in the context it was offered – both reveal a bit of a myopic view towards “historical accuracy” in fiction. But in terms of content the stories could hardly be more different. While neither is …
October. Halloween, Beltane, the occult is in the air. What better time to address Japan’s youkai culture in all its diverse and sometimes mystifying forms? As anime and manga fans, we certainly have our fair share of exposure to this side of Japanese culture. Japanese is a bit of a singularity when it comes to …
I can already kind of tell that Ao no Miburo is going to be one of those series I want to like more than I actually do. The premise is an A+ for me. Shinsengumi, new recruits, trying to make sense of the good vs. evil dynamic in a time where – as Nio says …
