Our Picks and Reviews

A timely review for once? Soon to be back for a new generation and new royalties, Urusei Yatsura (meaning, Those Obnoxious Aliens) is the...

Beginning this anime movie blind, I was a little jarred greeted by an in memoriam photo of someone, name given in Cyrillic, who lived...

This here is one fantastic series that never lets up, and is widely enjoyed, but is hard to write about. Serial Experiments Lain, a...

Vying warriors and vying lovers are staples of anime. While the shonen protagonist can be lampoonably focused on proving hisself the best...

Between the standard romance anime with a couple by predestination, and the harem anime where numerous love interests focused on a...

Prefer to listen on YouTube instead? https://youtu.be/hHxA1HBHtV8 Ouke no Monshou, or Crest of the Royal Family, is a historical shoujo...

Directed by Ayumu Watanabe (After The Rain, Space Brothers, Mysterious Girlfriend X) and produced by Studio 4°C (Tekkon Kinkreet,...

In the middle of watching Dirty Pair and Higurashi: When They Cry, I decided to watch a movie, the better to have something to review,...

Contains minor spoilers for Psycho-Pass Gen Urobuchi is fairly well known as a consensous "good writer." From his work, I had only...

Teenagers go through a lot of changes, both physical and emotional. Gleipnir follows Shuichi Kagaya, a teen who is trying to hold on to...

As a fan of more conventionally styled anime, I was wary of director Masaaki Yuasa’s Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome (The Night is...

I have a complicated relationship with otaku media. A lot of it is not very good, an exampleof this being the multitude of forgettable...

Director Makoto Shinkai has, wow, another No. 1 hit anime movie that just made a brief, yet memorable run in packed American theaters....

This anime has its fair share of fanservice, although not as over the top as others. This does not detract from the story though. Akutsu...

Sometimes, the only way to sell a toy to a kid is if everyone else already has one, and he wants in on the action. This can be a real,...

Commonly, the anime that answers questions about the true meaning of love and friendship, and the anime that answers to what men want,...

There are so many animes hyped by so many fans, that discernment can be a challenge. In actual fact, I likely have not actually “got to...

So, four weeks in to the new season and oh boy has it been good! Attack on Titan started up again, Tate no Yuusha seems to building up to...

Well, here we are, a new season and a new batch of reviews. First up is Kono yo no hate de koi wo utau shoujo YU-NO or Yuno: A girl who...

It's orphans......with a twist. Based off the 2016 manga series, Yakusoku no neverland is a creative story of orphans longing to be freed...