30-year-old company woman Moriko Morioka is throwing in the towel on business life, giving up the corporate grind in favour of the the online grind in MMORPG Fruits de Mer. She seizes the opportunity to be someone else in online life and creates male character Hayashi, a tall, blue-haired handsome adventurer and sets off somewhat […]
Known as the Clan of the Separated by outsiders, the Iolph are figures of legend who maintain youthful appearances and live for hundreds of years. They spend their days weaving hibiol, a cloth that records their stories and the passage of time, remembering the days when the world was filled with legends like flowers that […]
Fruits Basket triggered some sizeable waves when it hit anime fandom in Japan and then around the world in 2001. With the new adaptation hitting streaming service at the time of writing, Fruits Basket The Complete Series Blu-Ray is the perfect opportunity to revisit the adventures of the zodiac-cursed Sohma family. Tohru Honda finds herself […]
Having been rejected by her family and ostracised due to her ability to see strange creatures, Chise Hatori has lost all meaning and purpose in her life and sells herself at an auction house to the highest bidder. Interestingly, the highest bidder is a mysterious mage by the name of Elias Ainsworth, an imposing humanoid figure […]
Digimon Adventure Tri Part 6 closes out a marathon run for the series. With expectations high after the dramatic end to Part 5, it will be interesting to see how the team wrap up this final theatrical release. In the aftermath of Taiichi getting swallowed up by the earth and Hikari triggering an almost Eva-like […]
Posting stuff home to yourself while travelling in Japan isn’t difficult to do. Case in point – in June 2018 I had the chance to head over to Japan as part of my Masters degree for a study tour and bought more nerdy stuff than I was anticipating. While I’ll cover the trip in more […]
When hungover office worker Kobayashi opens her door the morning after a big night on the booze she is greeted by an enormous green dragon. Which quickly transforms into an enthusiastic woman (with horns and a big green tail) in a maid outfit named who announces she’s here to be Kobayashi’s maid. Turns out while […]
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya made enormous waves when it hit the anime community back in 2006. With two TV series’ and a movie in the mix, Madman’s timely release of all of this into a single collection has created a great opportunity to go back and revisit all the crazy antics of the SOS […]