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 […]
Tag: Blu-ray
Review: In/Spectre The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
In/Spectre The Complete Season promises a combination of supernatural thriller smashed together with amateur detectives and a fair whack of bloody violence. All of which sounds delightfully entertaining, but with a lot out there to compete against it will be a challenge to stand out from the crowd. Set in modern day Japan, In/Spectre The […]
Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion The Complete Series (Blu-Ray)
Neon Genesis Evangelion The Complete Series has arrived on Blu-Ray in Australia. And my god, it is just as amazing now as it was when it first released locally on VHS back in 1998. I’ll be honest – I’ve been wrestling with how to even approach this review for a while now. Watching Neon Genesis […]
Review: Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation (Blu-Ray)
Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation brings together the third and final arc of this legendary series. Nearly 40 years on though, how does it hold up? For Robotech Part 3 – The New Generation (which, in my head, I believe should be called The Invid Saga) we skip ahead a number of years […]
Review: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax Complete Season 3 (Blu-Ray)
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax tackles the tricky task of keeping the momentum up with the series while trying to resolve a number of loose ends for this third and final season. Picking up after the second season, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax presents a challenge to the Service Club by taking the […]
Review: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Complete Season 1+2 (Blu-Ray)
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Complete Season 1+2, as the name suggests, brings together the first 2 seasons of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, also known by it’s more palatable translation (at least to me) My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected. On the surface it reads like it has all the makings […]
Review: Robotech Part 2 – The Masters Saga (Blu-Ray)
The mighty 80s anime juggernaut Robotech continues with the second arc covering the adventures of 2nd Lieutenant Dana Sterling and her motley crew in the Southern Cross Army as The Robotech Masters descend on Earth to grow plants of doom. Well, that’s probably being a little flippant – where Robotech: The Macross Saga focused on […]
Review: Ikebukuro West Gate Park – The Complete Season (Blu-Ray)
Ikebukuro West Gate Park (or IWGP for short) promises a mash-up of edgy street crime drama amongst rivals youth gangs in Tokyo’s iconic Ikebukuro district with more bishounen characters than you can poke a stick at. Ikebukuro West Gate Park is all about the underground street gang culture coalescing around the huge Ikebukuro train station […]
Review: Your Name (4K/UHD Blu-Ray)
Your Name, Makoto Shinkai’s critical and commercial powerhouse anime film of 2016, has received another local release boasting fancy packaging and more pixels than ever before! Let’s dive in… Your Name centres around Mitsuha Miyamizu, dreaming of life in the big city while stuck in the rural town of Itomori, and Taki Tachibana, happily lost […]
Review: Robotech Part 1 – The Macross Saga (Blu-Ray)
Robotech is arguably one of the core foundations from which Western anime fandom was built upon, with this first of three compilations locking in the entirety of its first arc, the Macross Saga. Set in the far-flung future date of 2009 and 10 years after a mysterious alien spacecraft landed on earth triggering a third […]