If you’ve been watching the Osomatsu-san anime and thinking to yourself that you’d really like to spend a pile of moondollars of figures of all of the Matsuno sextuplets, Good Smile have heard your wishes and will gladly charge you a princely sum of ¥3,900 each for six almost identical figures! Each of the brothers comes with a […]
Madman in conjunction with AnimeLab have announced a new convention for Australian fans – Anime Festival! Taking place in Melbourne in September at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, this will be an event not to miss! From the official site: Madman Anime Festival is a celebration of anime and Japanese culture. Held on September 3rd […]
It’s been a helluva week with Sony finally showing its hand when it comes to VR, meaning we’re now in a position to get a feel for how this next wave of technology is going to hit the gaming scene as well as our bank balance. To this end we’ve created a lazy infographic that […]
Studio Ghibli, while recently quiet, have not been resting on their laurels. This week the Marubeni Shin Denryoku energy company has released an animated commercial using the studio’s talents. The animation is based on the Choju Jinbutsu Giga, a collection of four picture scrolls created in the 12th and 13th centuries. The scrolls are widely […]
This April, Capcom’s much beloved and quirky Phoenix Wright video game series (known as Gyakuten Saiban in Japan) is moving from the handheld console to television screens as an animated series. It was announced last year at the 2015 Tokyo Game Show that an adaptation was in the works for the court room puzzle game. […]
Assassination Classroom is definitely an interesting and unique manga falling into the genre of comedy/shounen/action category. Students of class E-3 of the elite Kunugigaoka Junior High School are ordered by the government’s representatives to eliminate their homeroom teacher named Koro-sensei, who is an alien that destroyed half of the moon with plans of destroying the Earth as well. […]
Based on the highly popular Danganronpa: Academy of Hope murder mystery game, this is a thirteen episodes anime released in 2013. As with many popular games, light novels and mangas there will always be anime adaptations to fully monopolise the market and Daganronpa is an example of that. I am reviewing this from a point of view of someone who […]
Aquarion is a mecha series set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of humanity are harvested by Shadow Angels as an energy source, a little like The War of the Worlds. The Shadow Angels are immortal winged creatures who are vastly more powerful than humans and possess advanced mystical technology. They have awoken after […]
The Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise is the powerhouse of it’s genre, and even after 20 years it’s presence has only increased as it steadily continues to gain more recognition and fans worldwide with the new Rebuild of Evangelion series. The newest release Evangelion 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo is the third out of four, and to follow what’s going […]
Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. For Satoru Fujinuma, unsuccessful manga creator and current pizza delivery man, it’s a life of what ifs and struggling with his own emotional expression. For myself, it was intending to do a quick first impression and quickly losing the better half of a day to an anime embroiled […]