“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and movies. I grew up believing this dream.” – Elvis Presley

In 2015, this was the big anime series that got everyone talking: and by everyone,…

“Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein

British comedy is full of classic idiotic characters: Baldrick, Father…

Warning: Review contains episode spoilers

It’s a fairly quick turnaround in the UK for the release of the second series of Fairy Tail, although as the title of the collection makes clear, it is just a continuation of what was going on before.

“Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.” – Pink Floyd, ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’

Land of the Lustrous is set in the far future. The Lustrous is the name of the main inhabitants of …

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey

Amagami SS Plus once again follows lovelorn Junichi Tachibana across six different storylines in which he is in love…

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” – Immanuel Kant

Belladonna of Sadness was the last of three movies in the “Animerama” series co-created by Osamu Tezuka…

“I had a terrible education. I went to a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” – Woody Allen

When we last watched Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka High School, the androgynous student Nagisa Shiota…

“Nor is it seemly, after wiping your nose, to spread out your handkerchief and peer into it as if pearls and rubies might have fallen out of your head.” – Erasmus

After recapping the events from the…

Episodes 165 to 175

Warning: Review contains episode spoilers

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.” – J. R. R. Tolkien.

This collection marks the …

Further information on some of the programmes in BBC Four’s Japan season are coming to light.

Already trailered is The Art of Japanese Life presented by art historian Dr. James Fox. This three-part…

“You won’t go back to your world; Once you see what happens here; Ride on our ship of wonder; We all never show you never.” – ‘Another Dimension’ by The Sixth Lie

The most recent film in the long-running…

“Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.” – George Bernard Shaw

Amagami SS is an adaptation of a harem-themed dating simulation game. There is one…

Warning: Review contains episode spoilers

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…