“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” – George Orwell.
Continuing …
The manga series Parasyte (Hitoshi Awaaki) was launched in 1988 and concluded in 1995. Twenty years after finishing its run in afternoon magazine Parasyte was finally awarded its own anime…
“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”…
Chihiro Furuya is a young man obsessed with horror, especially of the zombie variety. From films to manga, and even to the girls he finds attractive, all his interests are focussed on the brain-munching…
“Bird, go!”
Tachikawa City, 2015. A boy genius, Rui Ninomiya, has created GALAX, an altruistic interactive IT system with which he hopes to change the world – for the better. The CROWDS is the …
“What is it that haunts space where matter is found?” – Arthur Eddington
Leiji Matusmoto is the creator of many great sci-fi anime of the 1970s: Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy…
“So little time, so little to do.” – Oscar Levant.
While most anime fans are used to ordinary 2D animation and perhaps some 3D CGI animation, there are few stop-motion anime.…
Remember the good old days of anime in the UK? When VHS ruled, the tabloid press railed against the crazy new thing we had discovered, and to get the really, really good stuff, you had to send away …
Episodes 1-25 (Streaming on Crunchyroll)
“I can imagine in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect…
Present-day high-school student (and keen gamer) Yoshiharu Sagara finds himself bang in the middle of a fierce Warring States battle. A dying warlord (none other than Hideyoshi Toyotomi) begs…
“Everybody has got to die, but I’ve always believed an exception would be made in my case.” – William Saroyan.
Anime set in the world of gaming have been popular recently,…
Episodes 206-229, may contain spoilers.
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.…
Episodes 304-316
Spoilers! (Well, what did you expect…? It’s The Big Confrontation)
After two more filler episodes celebrating Bleach’s 10th Anniversary (which is, after all, something…
“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” – Charles Fort
This second season…
It’s that time again! Time for more Bizarre Adventures! Time for more Jojo!
(Note: Since this is a review of the sequel, it’s safe to assume this review will contain small spoilers to the original…
Onimonogatari is the fourth arc in Monogatari Second Season and is focused this time on Araragi’s blonde vampire companion. This arc is one of the shorter ones with only four episodes …
Look – I’ll level with you. the part of reviewing anime that I hate most is summarizing storylines. I just hate it. I mean, what’s the point? If you’re already interested…
From all the fan-service shows I’ve watched as a reviewer, I’m considering Ben-To as one of the best ones I’ve seen and there are several reasons why. It might not be an instant classic, …
When Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from film making in 2013, it was assumed by many that Studio Ghibli was no more, or at least no longer in the same realm of untouchable quality as before.…
Warning: may contain spoilers.
“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” – Jack Nicholson.
Continuing on from the first collection, we witness more…
