Ocean Waves marked the first time in Studio Ghibli’s history where the directorial duties were handed over to someone other than co-founders Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata back in 1993. With Madman’s recent blu-ray release in hand, let’s dive into this interesting experiment in Ghibli’s back catalogue. Ocean Waves treads somewhat familiar ground by telling […]
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 […]
90s Sailor Moon excite continues with the release of Sailor Moon SuperS Part 2 to Blu-Ray, officially catching up to the previous R1 releases of this magic girl classic. Sailor Moon SuperS Part 2 continues the usual monster of the week formula from its predecessors with the Amazon Trio being reasonably useless at their job, […]
Fireworks, an animated remake of Shunji Iwai’s 1993 TV drama/1995 live action film, made a big impact for SHAFT in 2017 as their highest-grossing theatrical feature to date. With a seemingly classic premise of repeating a single day over and over in the frame of a romantic drama, it will be interesting to see how […]
Sailor Moon S: The Movie is delightfully inconsequential. Is it essential viewing though? Let’s dive in and see what 1994 Toei was able to smash out… Sailor Moon S: The Movie takes place in the TV series’ continuity at a time of… some sort. Like most of the Toei theatrical spins based off their popular […]
Digimon Adventure Tri is back in the second to last entry in this epic theatrical series. With Part 4 stumbling somewhat in execution, it will be interesting to see how the story recovers in this latest release. Digimon Adventure Tri Part 5 follows in its predecessors’ footsteps by directly continuing the longform narrative of the […]
Katsugeki Touken Ranbu, based on the Japanese online card battling game Touken Ranbu, promises iconic pre-modern historical action drama featuring a cast of bishi-bishi boys crossed with…. sci-fi? Hmmmm… Katsugeki Touken Ranbu focuses on the Tsukumogami, a collective of warriors from the 24th century who are the reincarnated spirits of former weapons from pre-modern times […]
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 […]
Following the recent review of Sailor Moon S on Blu-Ray, we’re back to kick off the start of the second to last series of 90s Sailor Moon in the form of Sailor Moon SuperS Part 1 – wooo! Sailor Moon SuperS Part 1 starts atypically for the 90s adaptation of Takeuchi’s classic series – random […]
Digimon Adventure Tri continues to spin its longform theatrical narrative with Part 4: Loss. Akin with the former entries, Digimon Adventure Tri Part 4 kicks off directly from the end of Part 3 with the team stranded in the rebooted Digital World. After spending time working through some requisite teen angst and reconnecting with their […]