This week sees a wide variety of releases from Anime Limited, Crunchyroll and MVM Entertainment. Our highlights include My Hero Academia – Season 6 Part 2 and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation – Season 2 Part 1 from Crunchyroll as well as ONE PIECE Film Red on 4K UHD Blu-Ray from Anime Limited. As a reminder …
Okarun Got that Dawg in Him
Dan da Dan Ep 2 Review Life is a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. One day, you’re minding your own business. The next, you’re being abducted by aliens for your privates. Or a ghost possesses you and steals your junk. For Momo and Ken, though, both happened in the …
Fall 2024 First Episode Awards
Now that the final October premiere has aired (a subpar beginning to Blue Miburo), we’ve reached the end of our First Impressions period. Our plans for the next couple months are looking light: Lenlo will continue his Horus Heresy book club series and publish some mini anime reviews as they’re completed, Amun plans to periodically …
Puniru is a Slime #03 — Fighting Children
And losing. Impressions: Going through the multiple long transformation sequences certainly didn’t help this episode, but neither did most of it being recycled jokes. A whole flashback sequence just to redo the handshake joke at Puniru-land from the first episode, the bisecting hug, and the playboy dude wanting to hang out with kids. The …
Ranma ½ (2024) – 03
I’m rather startled by how much I’m enjoying Ranma ½. It’s not even nostalgia so much, because it’s been so long since I watched the original that I barely remember it. I just like it – it’s so damn much fun and makes a perfect unwind after the intensity of Chi Chikyuu. I think Inuyasha …
Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Orb: On the Movements of the Earth) – 04
The wheel of fate moves quickly. On the fourth episode we already get a ten-year timeskip. We bid Do widzenia to a legendary protagonist (he certainly went out in style) and welcome a (mostly) new cast of characters. But this is still a story rooted in the same themes – truth, beauty, belief and institutions …