I began my review of Penguindrum part 1 by saying that I suspected labelling the series as a cute, fluffy, romance with a touch of angst anime was a mistake. Oh boy. Was it a mistake. In my defence, in the same review I said the plot, drama and tension was escalating quickly. By the […]
Ghost in the Shell: Arise – web episode
I’ve been lucky enough to see some Ghost in the Shell: Arise and review GitS: Arise – Pain. This, though, is new. Ghost Whispers is a web episode to promote Kokaku-JPRS.jp. Logicoma fan? Good news. There’s three of them in this web episode and that’s a threefold increase from the one in Pain.
Are penguins cute or creepy? A review of Penguindrum
I made the mistake of dismissing the whole of Penguindrum based on the first episode. I should know better. After all, one of the many reasons to love intelligent anime is its ability to dramatically and suddenly change direction. I initially dismissed Penguindrum as something made to appeal to a fluffy, pink and teenage audience. […]
Black Butler live action trailer
I’m not sure what I made of the anime Black Butler series. I started to watch it but then it was overtaken by others. Even though the butler, Sebastian Michaelis, is one Hell of a butler and he helps his lord out of all sorts of situations I suspect I’m not entirely the target audience. […]
Microsoft turns to anime to help promote Internet Explorer
Watch the anime first and then have a think about what it means. Okay, it came from Microsoft Singapore so it had an audience used to anime. That said this ad for Internet Explorer has gone global. This shows just how wide anime’s appeal has become. It also shows just how influential geeks are. I […]
The Power of the Kings: A review of Guilty Crown (part one)
Part One of Guilty Crown is the first 11 episodes of the science fantasy series from Square Enix and Production IG. The show is not yet on Crunchyroll but Manga UK will release the first DVD and blu-ray pack in the UK on the 18th November. Funimation has the license in the States. Guilty Crown […]
Stick with it: A review of Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
I found Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere incredibly confusing and almost frustrating to begin with. It looked like an incredibly cosmopolitan collection of students in training and apparently running the city. By “cosmopolitan” I mean we had mechs, witches, naked but not anatomically complete incubus, sports stars with eyes in their hats, buxom school […]
Samurai Kings – Sengoku Basara: The Last Party
Sengoku Basara began life as a Capcom video game franchise and has characters named after real people from the Sengoku era of Japan. The series spawned two anime seasons in which the various samurai warlords and their armies faced off a larger army led by a more powerful warlord. Sengoku Basara: The Last Party is […]
Ghost in the Shell: Arise “Ghost Pain” review
“Ghost Pain” is the first episode of the re-imagined Ghost in the Shell OVA. It may be one of only four in the series as each episode is intended to receive a limited cinema release in Japan a month before the Blu-ray release. Ghost in the Shell features a new voice cast. We also have […]
Dealing with death through doppelgangers: Hal movie review
Hal is a movie about a robot who becomes human as part of an outlandish attempt at “robot therapy”. In this instance we’re dealing with someone who’s not been able to cope with the death of a loved one and has withdrawn from the world. The robot “Q01” doesn’t just become human – they become […]
