Having moved back to her childhood town, Hina is keen to join an afterschool club that lets her focus on her favourite hobby – crafting. However, fate has other plans when she meets Yuki, a student from her new school fishing by one of the town’s breakwaters. Following an encounter with an octopus, Hina is […]
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Review: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Season 1 (Blu-Ray)
When the young noble Caterina Claes accidentally hits her head she comes to a startling realisation – in her past life, she died at the age of 17 after a traffic accident. Now, she finds herself living in the last game she had played before her death, an otome game called Fortune Lover – where […]
Review: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (Blu-Ray)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish revisits Seiko Tanabe’s 1984 short story about the relationship between two young people, one of whom is disabled and relies on a wheelchair for mobility, as they challenge each other and societal norms in this coming of age youth drama. In Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Tsuneo Suzukawa […]
Review: By the Grace of the Gods – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Weary and overworked, middle-aged office worker Ryoma Takebayashi dies in his sleep of a brain haemorrhage, only to find himself face to face with three gods. Acknowledging the hardships he faced in his previous life, the gods offer Ryoma the opportunity to be reincarnated in another world where he can be happy. Familiar with the […]
Review: Wonder Egg Priority – The Complete Season (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Wonder Egg Priority’s jubilant packaging proves to be a challenging and engaging bait and switch for a production that explores the impacts of mental health on young women in contemporary Japanese society. Wonder Egg Priority focuses on the experiences of Ai Ohto, a high school student completely disengaged with her school over the impacts of […]
Review: Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (Blu-Ray)
Having recovered from their ordeal on Mount Natagumo and survived their encounter with the Hashira, the strongest members the Demon Slayer Corps has to offer, Tanjiro, Nezuko, Inosuke and Zenitsu are sent out on their next mission. This particular mission involves the mysterious Mugen Train, which has recently seen over forty passengers who have boarded […]
Review: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Dvd/Blu-Ray Combo)
In the year 2071, the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop, comprising former syndicate member Spike Spiegel, ex-cop Jet Black, con-artist Faye Valentine, hacker extraordinaire Radical Edward, and the hyper-intelligent corgi Ein, are pursuing a bounty on Mars. Faye is in the middle of tracking the bounty when a mysterious figure triggers a tanker […]
Review: Otherside Picnic – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Otherside Picnic posits the question – what would you do if you accidentally stumbled across a doorway to another dimension that wasn’t dominated by JRPG tropes and otaku power fantasies? Sorawo unwittingly finds herself travelling back and forth to a bizarre parallel dimension contemplating the value of her own existance when she crosses paths with […]
Review: Akudama Drive – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
An ordinary citizen becomes involved in a prison break when she unwittingly finds herself in the path of several Akudama – wanted criminals with particular skillsets and massive bounties on their heads. With nowhere to run, she pretends to be one of them to protect herself, donning the moniker Swindler. But “Swindler’s” quick thinking causes […]
Uncle From Another World is the best anime on streaming platforms right now
Uncle From Another World dropped onto Netflix last week, promising a somewhat unusual take on contemporary Isekai anime tropes by thrusting my Japanese doppleganger into the story. It is arguably the greatest new anime streaming on any platform right now, with scenes like this dominating the narrative: The above is from the opening episode where […]