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 […]
GalaxyTrail’s Freedom Planet made a rumbling across the web following a successful Kickstarter run and subsequent release on Steam in 2014. Following several delays it finally hit the WiiU last month, and after getting some hands-on time with the game, I have to say I’m impressed. Thus far into the game (which is admittedly only […]
The much anticipated anime One Punch Man was officially released on the 5th of October 2015. OPM is an action-comedy series, which was originally a webcomic released in 2009 with below average artwork, but despite that it went viral and became so popular that it was later redrawn and eventually made it into the weekly […]
With the new season off and running, it’s time for some more First Impressions, starting with the new Gundam anime, Iron Blooded Orphans.
Last week word filtered out that Street Fighter V was back in action for beta testers, and after a few false starts I was able to jump in to give it a whirl! First impressions are good – the UI is nice a clean, character selection is slick and even things like loading screens are […]
I’ve recently gotten my hands on Dragonball Xenoverse on the Playstation 4. Xenoverse is the first Dragon Ball game to appear on the next gen systems. I never had the pleasure of owning any of the previous Dragon Ball games on previous systems such as the famous Budokai trilogy, but I always heard great things […]
J-Stars Victory VS+ is a brawler that takes some of Shonen Jump’s biggest anime characters and battles them against each other in what can only be described as explosive fan-service battles. This game was released to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Shonen Jump. On launch of the game you are greeted with a stylish cell […]
This is the third (and final, I believe) season of this quite hilariously done Comedy/Slice of Life anime adapted from manga by the same name. We once again follow Souta Takanashi at his part-time job; the Wagnaria family restaurant. Along with his daily interactions with fellow employees, and family members. A-1 Pictures once again […]
A portal in Japan opens, with a slew of Roman-inspired soldiers, dragons and all manner of monsters appear, slaughtering civilians left and right. On the outskirts of this we have Youji Itami, a JSDF officer and otaku, on his way to a doujinshi events. Interrupted by screams, dragons and fantasy monsters killing randomly, he jumps to, saving […]
P.A. Works try their hand at an original anime this time around. Having just come off from a rather successful series (Shirobako), they went with something completely new, using no source material. Now, on the surface Charlotte seems like a typical super powered, coming-of-age anime, but I like that misdirection. It lends itself on a lot […]