Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is certainly reaching for the skys, as Cygames and Arc System Works have added 2B from Nier Automata as a DLC Character to the game. Included as part of the Season Pass, or available as a single piece of DLC for £6.49 / €7.99, the Character DLC adds 2B as a …
Before I get into this week’s Hokkaido Gals, I want to briefly comment on an interesting phenomenon I see in the commentary on this series. Specifically, used in criticizing it. To wit, that it’s unrealistic that these girls would be interested in Tsubasa. You see this a lot with anime fans – there was a …
What an enthralling twenty minutes that was. Impressions: Bleh. Both my girlfriends are in a coma, but maybe we can just plug them into the deus ex machina machine and wait patiently for this to fix itself, being really sad in the interim. And 20 minutes later, it fixed itself. Ciel lived on in …
After a season and change of cloaking its personal inquiry in the trappings of a more or less traditional, episodic giant robot anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion’s sixteenth episode represents a formal casting off of its genre pretensions, in favor of directly interrogating the psychology of its forlorn protagonists. This is less dramatic of a transition …
Oh, so now the cops are also trying to overthrow the monarchy? …Okay. Impressions: All of a sudden, offscreen, the entire police force has decided to throw a coup, imprison the royal secret police in their own secret compound and declare themselves the new secret police by blackmailing the government. That random idiot rookie …
This week sees a variety of new releases from all three major anime distributors, with highlights including By The Grace of the Gods – Season 2 via Crunchyroll and RE:cycle of the Penguindrum via Anime Limited. As a bonus, Demon Slayer -To The Hashira Traing- will also be available in UK cinemas later this week. …
