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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Shoyo Hinata wants to play volleyball, and he wants to stay on the court for as long as he can. Unfortunately for Hinata, he’s small for a volleyball player and his junior high school didn’t have much in the way of a volleyball team – in the first match they ever played his team was […]
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 […]
Sailor Moon Crystal Set 3 sees the Sailor Moon reboot continue into my favourite saga – Death Busters/Infinity/Sailor Moon S – which I continue to lovingly gush about whenever I have the chance (such as here and here). As much as I enjoyed the previous releases of Sailor Moon Crystal, it was with a mixture […]
A couple of things to preface this review: First, School-Live! isn’t an idol anime – It’s ‘live’ as in ‘living’. Yay English! And second, it’s impossible to talk about this series without spoiling the premise and the first episode entirely. Ye be warned!
Yoko Nishikawa is a former rich girl now living the pauper’s life – but you’d never know it from her mannerisms. When two of her classmates stumble upon her eating a bag of 50-yen bread crusts for lunch in a quiet spot of the school gardens, the ojou-sama illusion is well and truly shattered, but […]
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions (previously reviewed here) was easily one of the best romantic comedy anime series in recent memory (provided you ignore most of the floundering second season), with a great cast and touching story. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Rikka Version takes the first season and promises to retell it through Rikka’s eyes […]