Any optimism that I had from the first episode of this mini-series has been dashed. Demon Slayer Mugen Train arc episode 1 had me hoping that we would get a more fleshed out version of the Demon Slayer movie. We were given the events prior to Rengoku getting on the Mugen train after all. After …
You don’t get the chance to throw the term around all that often when it comes to anime, but Blue Period is deep. Very, very deep. There’s a lot going on here, on so many levels. It’s demanding in the sense that if you want to appreciate it on the level it aspires to, you …
I confess, there’s no joy in this business quite like having my sleeper picks come good. Even after more than a decade of writing anime previews I still have a pretty limited understanding of how the whole process works. If you know something of the source material it’s not really a sleeper, but sometimes you …
If you had the ability to have any wish you want granted, but you had to give up your future freedom and enter a war against evil, would you take it? If so, what would you wish for? That’s the overarching theme of Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Madoka Magica for short). Madoka, the main character, …
Since the announcement of the third season of Kengan Asura, fans have been excited to watch their favorite franchise back on the screens. However, in the manga world, fans are still tensed about the fate of the match between the Kengan Association and Purgatory. In the previous edition, Rolon announced that he was going to […]
I’m just happy about this thing—and I hope I have more reason to be in the future! At about the ten-minute mark of the first episode of Yesterday wo Utatte (Sing “Yesterday” for Me), I was starting to feel like the episode was getting ready to close, so I took a quite look at the …
