This series has won me over to be sure. It’s easy to get drawn into this world (I’d go so far as to say the world building with Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun is top tier). The issue is that everything is so short – the episode count, and the episodes themselves. It’s really over before it …
Love Live! Sunshine!! – Season 1 & 2 (Blu-Ray) [ESSENTAILS] BD Region: A – Boxart states Region A only – Tested & Confirmed Region A only Episodes: 1 – 26 (4 Blu-Ray Discs) Plot: When Chika Takami, a second-year student at Uranohoshi Girl’s High School, visits Tokyo with her best friend You Watanabe, she discovers …
The circle square is completed. Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai. was indeed giving us a survey course of the four brothers, and eldest Hayato was the last one up. At 24 he’s really too young to be living his life for his brothers’ sake, but it’s a choice he made (admittedly under duress). It’s nice to …
I won’t pretend I’ve thought about Raijuuta a lot over the past twenty years or so. On the occasions I’ve gone back to Rurouni Kenshin (I’ve re-watched the anime and re-read the manga multiple times), and that’s about it. When Ruroken thoughts came unbidden they were usually of “Kyoto” or “Jinchuu”, the two arcs that …
I’m back again to share another selection of unique and novel anime items delivered from Japan. Highlights in this batch including the cameo first appearance of Piccolo and the first full appearance of Super Saiyajin Son Goku, both from Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga.
The hard part of this kind of post is organizing my thoughts. It’s kind of a perfect storm. You have an absolutely stupendous masterpiece of a premiere, and on top of that it’s for one of the most-anticipated stories ever to be adapted to anime – both by me and generally speaking. I hardly know …
