Penguin Highway was the winner of the audience vote at Scotland Loves Anime 2018, and it is easy to see why. It’s a modern fantasy with some great characters, delightful whimsy and a touch of sadness too. The story plays out through the eyes of 10-year-old Aoyama. He’s a precocious little man, brimming with confidence […]
Living with Crying: A review of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Here’s an anime worth making an effort to watch. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas aired at the Scotland Loves Anime festival in 2018 in Edinburgh on the same day as Calamity of a Zombie Girl. Don’t let the coincidence of names fool you; I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is not a zombie anime. […]
Niantic and +Ultra release the Ingress anime trailer
The Ingress anime is about to air in Japan and is due on Netflix later this year. We already know a little about the Ingress anime so let’s carefully attempt to work out what the trailer is showing. Auto-English captions are not yet available. It begins by showing a three glyph message decoded Begin, Danger, […]
A Magical Girl RPG: Domina Magica transforms on Kickstarter
Magical Girl animes typically deal with friendship and social issues between those times their main characters turn into magical superheroes and deal with evil forces. Shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura have helped define the genre and have had an influence on game designer Emily Reinhart. Reinhart has run a successful Kickstarter which, at […]
Gulp! The loot crate craze goes hentai!
I suppose this is no surprise. The Otaku Box (NSFW) works on the Loot Crate model. You subscribe, pay a flat fee and every month you’ll receive a gift box containing goodies with a recommended retail price of more than that value. Tick the “I’m 18+ and interested in hentai” and The Otaku Box promises […]
Design your anime! Kickstarter lets fans pitch anime ideas
Evil Hat Productions the publisher behind Fate has gone to Kickstarter for Channel A. This is a card game in which you have to pitch ideas for an anime series. It launched today and is racing to 100 backers and the US$15,000 it is asking for. You can follow progress on the Kickstarter campaign page. […]
Ingress anime in 2018; what we know
Niantic, now more famous for Pokemon Go than Ingress, has an impressive anime deal lined up. The show will air on Netflix this year and is all about Ingress. In fact, the Ingress anime will probably coincide with the launch of Ingress Prime (aka Ingress 2.0). We’re going to make some wild guesses about the […]
Tokyo Ghoul:re Call to Exist announcement trailer
A brave trailer! Even if you know the main Tokyo Ghoul anime and recognise that horrible chair then you still won’t see much else in this trailer. Don’t worry; we’ve some better screenshots from the game at the end of this post. Bandai Namco and Three Rings are putting this on and offline survival horror […]
Chibi Eeveelutions might be the cutest evolution yet
Eeveelutions are a group of eight Pokemon that evolve from an Eevee. It’s a significant term as fans coined it and later adopted by the Pokemon Company for Pokemon Stadium 2 when it first appeared official. They’re adorable. Chibi is a slang term used by anime fans for something small and cute. In fact, it […]
A review of Blue Exorcist: Definitive Edition – Kyoto Saga
I enjoyed Blue Exorcist, but it took me a while to work out what was going on in season two and a little while to forgive it for that. This arch isn’t either a sequel or a prequel. The Kyoto Saga is set mid-way through season 1.
