Maken-Ki! is an action-comedy anime series produced by AIC and falls into a genre that those familiar with anime would call ecchi. In between it’s few moments of story progression and character development you will find yourself bombarded with excessive amounts of panty-shot fanservice, nudity and an unoriginal harem story. The story begins with lead male Takeru Ohyama enrolling at … Read More
Spoiler Warning! This review does contain some minor spoilers for both Danganronpa: The Animation and the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair game. Watching through Danganronpa 3 is an experience unlike any other I’ve had with an anime series. It is the sequel to an anime series, while also acting as both a prequel and a sequel to selected games from the … Read More
It’s always a good day whenever a new Dragon Ball collection comes out. It gives me the same feeling opening up one of these sets today as it did 15 years ago whenever I received the latest DBZ VHS volume. And now that they are available on Blu-Ray, the Dragon Ball series has never looked better. Thankfully sets these days … Read More
There are a few anime that you can say are the epitome and trend setter of their genre. For example, for Shonen fighter series you can’t look past Dragon Ball Z but for the Shoujo magical-girl genre the series that hold that spot is Sailor Moon. If you grew up in the 90’s watching cartoons, there’s a good chance you … Read More
A Silent Voice, also known as Koe no Katachi and also translated as The Shape of Voice is the latest romantic drama film from director Naoko Yamada and animated by Kyoto Animation. It’s full of emotion, has a diverse cast of characters and contains themes not often expressed in anime. The story follows a teenage boy, Shoya Ishida, who in … Read More
Mary And The Witch’s Flower is the first film released by famed Japanese animation studio, Studio Ponoc. At first look you could easily be mistaken thinking this was the latest film out of Studio Ghibli. Containing fluent animation, incredible backgrounds and similar character designs. That assessment wouldn’t be entirely incorrect though, Studio Ponoc was founded in 2015 after Studio Ghibli … Read More
A Long Time Coming Crunchyroll have revealed the first trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card. Morio Asaka is returning from the first television anime series and two films to direct the new series at Madhouse with CLAMP still working on the writing, character and card designs. The series is due to premiere on January 7th … Read More
If you grew up as a 90’s kid like me, there’s a good chance that you spent some of your mornings waking up early to catch the Digimon series. It was a pre-school ritual for me and got me out of bed early even on the weekends. The Digimon series was initially stamped as a Pokemon clone. While there are … Read More
Three Leaves, Three Colors is a slice of life anime revolving around the everyday lives of three high school girls. Yoko Nishikawa has recently had to adopt the life of a poor person after her father’s company goes bankrupt. Giving up the maids and butlers completely and attending a regular high school. Yoko initially finds it hard to drop her … Read More
Fair Warning: While this review won’t go deep into any plot spoilers, I do urge people interested in watching Your Name to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot. Just know that it’s a brilliant film, go and watch it if you haven’t seen it and then come back. Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) is the … Read More