While I knew Atri: My Dear Moments was adapted (via manga) from a visual novel, I came in knowing nothing else that wasn’t in the synopsis and cast list. But boy, if wouldn’t have mattered – I’d have known within 3 minutes this was based on a VN. There’s just something about them – the …
Show of hands, who here has ever heard of this old movie from 1969 called The Flying Phantom Ship before 2022? No? Me neither. I never even knew Flying Phantom Ship existed until Discotek Media announced on their Twitter page that they licensed it in May of 2022. Not only that, they even made an …
I Parry Everything Short Synopsis: Noor has wanted to be a hero since he was a child, but he was never good enough at anything to do so. After years of training he was only able to learn a single skill, parry. With only one path before him, he takes that skill to its absolute …
The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Short Synopsis: An admitted war criminal and a part time worker face off…and fall in love. Lenlo: On the surface, this seems like a pretty standard magical girl show. Transformation sequence was alright, effects are good enough, girl is sort of cute. The issue with standard magical girl …
Do all teachers get a free pass to murder any student they feel like? Impressions: There’s little else on Sundays, but this is still just being utterly generic shounen Harry Potter with just a bit better animation, and not exciting me to continue with it at all. This week only really introduced Dumbledorette, who …
The whole philosopher assassin thing would normally be pretty insufferable as far as I’m concerned. So I guess it’s testament to the fact that The Fable has done a good sales job that this wasn’t. It doesn’t romanticize mobsters much as compares to most animanga, but Akira is an exception. This is still a guy …
