Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden Trailer

I watched the Urusei Yatsura OVA box set with zero prior knowledge of this popular anime franchise except that it had been originally penned by Inuyasha and Ranma king-pin Rumiko Takahashi. My first impressions of this were based purely at a skin-deep level and it is painfully obvious that Urusei has not aged well at … Continued

We rejoin Yu Yu Hakusho with Yusuke continuing his quest to learn the powerful supernatural techniques of the aging Master Genkai. Having clawed his way into the final fight thanks more to blind luck than real fighting ability, it seems that Yusuke may be in above his head against a murderous opponent who made mince … Continued

I’ll admit I take a guilty pleasure from watching long-running action anime series and Yu Yu Hakusho appears to fit the bill perfectly; sporting 112 episodes, I can already taste the bitter teenage angst, the dramatic character deaths and the tense, face to face supernatural martial arts. It’s easy to predict the direction in which … Continued

Episodes 1 – 4 “It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that … Continued

Episodes 5 – 12 (Warning: this review contains spoilers from the first paragraph) It is the final episode of Tokyo Ghoul. Things are looking bad for Ken Kaneki because he is in the middle of being tortured by the most fearsome beast seen in the series: Yakumo, a muscle-bound leviathan clad in a white suit, … Continued