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Well, you know, I really gotta hand it to them. They tried. And they did something I thought couldn’t be done. They managed to combine every trope in anime and it becomes, not a genre-busting moment as it was in the outrageously brilliant ‘Project A-ko’, but almost a death-scream for anime itself. Taking place in [...]
Growing up, and going to school are normal things, bullying and ostracized are really not what anyone would want happened, though it happens. An undisclosed number of children commit suicide in Japan, due to the factor of unable to cope with bullying at school. Japan is well known for being a cohesive group, and has [...]
No, we’re not talking about Benson from Soap (who wound up getting his own series as a spinoff). Taking place in Victorian England, Ciel Phantomhive is a twelve-year-old orphan who now rules one of the most powerful houses in the country. But Bruce Wayne he is not. Although it sounds like the set up for [...]
I have seen the future and it is Summer Wars. A powerful, mind-blowing film, this film is both a richly detailed, touching story full of enjoyment and also a stern warning; that we depend too much on the interlinked technologies that we have developed. As Facebook brings us all together, it only takes one mistake [...]
Oh no…not again. I can’t tell you how many times that phrase ran through my head as I watched Villgust. You have to give some leniency to old anime; it’s always possible that when you see a cliche play out, it might be the first time it happened. This is particularly true when watching a [...]
Sitcoms rarely feature character development. A half-hour devoted to comedy rarely has enough time to give its characters room to grow. More importantly, it makes it difficult to put into syndication once the show is over. When you tune into a random episode, you want to be able to follow what’s going on without too [...]
Agent Aika is one of those shows that makes this reviewer despair for the hope of anime. Now don’t misunderstand me–if you read reviews of Agent Aika on a variety of sites, you will find some who love this series of 7 OVAs following the adventures of one Aika and her …
Samuel L. Jackson is the definition of cool. Or is he? With Pulp Fiction over a decade gone, he still has plenty of mojo working for him, but not all of his decisions have been great. Snakes on a Plane, the internet phenomenon and box-office mediocrity, made it look like Jackson might have jumped the [...]
Record Of Lodoss Wars is one of the most popular fantasy imports of recent memory, and it’s no wonder–over the course of the original 13 OVAs, we get to know a band of characters very well, and their exploits are not only exciting but occasionally thought-provoking and (dare I say it?) touching. There’s now a [...]
Have you ever once seen the power of music destroy an enemy civilization in American media? I can’t think of any shows that have done so, but anime has a huge catalog of titles that involve music being the driving force behind a culture’s power. Although you’d be hard pressed to track the phenomenon back [...]