For this entry in the Visiting Japan Feature series at Anime Inferno, Iron Chap discusses his experience renting a car and driving around the Japanese countryside in May 2017… In May 2017 my wife and I were lucky enough to get away to Japan for a couple of weeks. While a good chunk of our […]
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Review: Recovery of an MMO Junkie (DVD/Blu-Ray Combo)
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 […]
Review: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
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 […]
Review: Interviews with Monster Girls Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
In a world where Demi-humans are steadily becoming included in Japanese society, high school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi ends up teaching three ‘Demi-chans’ and working with a Demi teacher, and takes the opportunity to interview them to learn more about them and their unique situations. Based on the Manga of the same name by Petos […]
Review: Made in Abyss Complete Season 1 (Blu-Ray)
The Abyss – a huge, multi-level pit with the cursed power to strip away a person’s humanity as they ascend from it’s depths. Full of unimaginable monsters, impossible geography and incredible and powerful artefacts. In a town named Orth just above the edge of the Abyss, young orphan girl Riko trains to be a Cave […]
Review: Granblue Fantasy: The Animation Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Blu-Ray)
In a world made up of a multitude of floating islands, a girl named Lyria falls from the sky above the island of Zinkenstill, fleeing the Erste Empire. In the island’s forest she is found by a boy named Gran and his small winged friend who is definitely not a lizard, Vyrn. When the Imperial […]
Review: Seven Mortal Sins Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
When the angel Lucifer is cast out from heaven for her prideful misdeeds, hell is in for a hell of a time. After a brief stop on Earth where Lucifer imparts her angel’s blood to a girl named Maria in a church, she arrives in hell and immediately becomes the target of the envious Leviathan’s […]
Review: Flip Flappers Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
Cocona is just your average anime high-schooler – ordinary and unsure about her future direction post-schooling. The one career she wasn’t expecting to have thrust upon her is that of inter-dimensional Magical Girl, but when a strange girl named Papika takes a sudden interest in her that’s exactly what happens. Papika, along with weird little […]
Review: And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online? Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
When Hideki Nishimura, an avid player of Massively-Multiplayer Online Game ‘Legendary Age’, professes his love to an in-game female character, only to have his advances rebuffed by the character telling him they’re a man in real life, he swears off in-game marriages and heads off in shame to play solo. As time heals the wounds, […]
Review: Love Live! Sunshine!! Complete Season 1 Limited Collector’s Edition (Blu-Ray)
Coming in on the heels of the two original Love Live! series and movie telling the tales of the girls of μ’s, this franchise is a legitimate phenomenon and Love Live! Sunshine!! had a hell of a legacy to live up to. After telling the story of a group Tokyo girls who made Akihabara their […]