This week sees four new Blu-Ray releases, and two cinema releases, from Anime Limited. Highlights include Shirobako on Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray as well as BLUE GIANT at the cinema. Out This Week: 29th January 2024 Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor – Complete Series (Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray) Parasyte: The Maxim – Complete Series (Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray) Patlabor – …
I’ve come to believe that Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san has something special about it. It’s deep – and while deep is a word that gets tossed off a lot, I don’t use it very often where anime is concerned. It’s not anything that jumps off the screen and grabs you by the scruff of the neck. …
The seven of you who’re watching were treated to one hell of an episode this week. Kingdom is easy to take for granted because of how consistent (and omnipresent) it is, but every few weeks it fires off a cracker of an episode to remind you of just how great this series is. Weeks like …
It may be in a sort of anti-sweet spot where it doesn’t bait the BL fandom hard enough to draw them (like Bravern does), but does so too much (and lacks enough cute girls) to satisfy everyone else. A dead zone between Ikebukuro and Akihabara, you might say. And the sort of retro feel …
I must say, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto has an easy charm about it that I find very winning. I can’t think back on any episodes that made me marvel at their greatness, but they’re all a sort of a vibe. The writing is plenty smart enough, and only rarely seems too anxious to remind you of …
Another Japanese Sunday, another perfect BokuYaba episode, another pageful of notes. I could go 20 paragraphs with most of these posts easily, but I try very hard to limit myself because truthfully, a series this good speaks more eloquently for itself than I ever could on its behalf. I must say, though, that if this …
