This week sees two new releases from Crunchyoll and MVM Entertainment, with MVM releasing a complete series re-release of Record of Grancrest War and Crunchyroll publishing Summoned to Another World for a Second Time on Blu-Ray. Out This Week: 5th August 2024: Record of Grancrest War – Complete Series (Blu-Ray) Summoned to Another World for …
Like most films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster begins quietly, tracking the shoes of a child as they silently navigate a grassy embankment. The movement is furtive, hesitant; the boy we are following seems uncertain of his destination, yet cordoned in his wandering by fear of reprisal. Beyond him, electric lights glimmer in reflection upon a …
It’s a big week in manga, as Boku no Hero Academia officially ended today after a glorious ten-year run. Samu and I wanted to share our thoughts on this landmark series as close as we could get to real-time, so we recorded a retrospective podcast this past weekend. The two of us have a long …
Many know the company Visual Arts/Key for their visual novels: Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters, Rewrite, their kinetic novels, and so on. But while Kanon is the first VN that they produced under their Key banner, the staff that formed Key were actually part of another company before this, Tactics (Which would later come to …
Without any animation, this gets immeasurable worse real fast. Impressions: Boy, that week off certainly didn’t help the script, or animation for that matter. What a tedious, awfully paced episode. The first half may as well have been on a loop explaining the following two factoids. 1.) There is a magic festival, where it …
After a one-week Olympic break, Shoushimin Series returns both to the airwaves and LiA. It won the Patron Pick vote, which consisted of Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san, Shoushimin Series, Giji Harem, and Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan. To be honest I was expecting Alya-san to win, but it wasn’t even close – Shoushimin …
