The brave young hero Yulia Chardiet and her adventuring party burst into the lair of the Demon Lord, and banish the fiend with magic. Having now completed their quest, the end credits roll. Wait a minute… The first episode only just started… This can’t be the end already, can it??? Nope! Turns out the heroes […]
For all my interest in kaiju flicks and soft vinyl toys, the one major part of the broader tokusatsu genre that always eluded me was the giant hero series. Stuff like Ultraman or Super Sentai shows never quite hit for me. With Studio Trigger behind SSSS.Gridman being enough to persuade me to give it a […]
After the first volume set the stage for Sakura’s new adventure, Clear Card part 2 arrives to wrap up this new arc, and with plenty of questions around mysterious clock-based dreams, hooded figures and suspicious magical butlers there are plenty of threads to be brought together as Sakura continues her latest card-capting adventure. After the […]
Fresh out of high school, 18 year-old Suzukaze Aoba is off to join the workforce, and she’s not just landed any old office gig, she’s going to work for a game development company named Eagle Jump – creators of her favorite games, the acclaimed ‘Fairies Story’ series. And as if that’s not enough, she’ll be […]
On the way home from the convenience store to pick up some snacks, Subaru Natsuki suddenly finds himself in another world. And just like that we’re along for the journey with him as he starts and then er… restarts life in another world. As Subaru wanders the grand fantasy city he stumbles upon three ne’er-do-wells […]
In the real world it was 18 years between the last Cardcaptor Sakura animated feature and the new Clear Card series, but for those in the town of Tomoeda only two years have passed since Sakura did battle with the Nothing card, and with the Sakura cards safely sealed, Li back in Hong Kong and […]
Aglow with neon signs and record stores set up on every block, Midi City is home to a race of music loving animal people known as Myumons. On Earth, Cyan Hijirikawa is struggling to work up the courage to join her school’s music club. Failing to do so, she returns home and wallows in self-pity […]
The Aqours crew are back for Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 2, as Chika and company continue the fight to save their beloved school, and also come to terms with what the impending end of the school year means for the future of their group as members Mari, Dia and Kanan prepare to graduate. Despite not […]
After a stellar first season, a pretty okay second season and a baffingly pointless recap movie, Love, Chunbyo and Other Delusions is back for one final hurrah in the form of Take On Me, a second theatrical feature that brings the story of The Wicked Lord Shingan and Dark Flame Master, aka third-year high-school students […]
From humble beginnings as an adult Visual Novel, Type-Moon’s Fate franchise is now a bonafide juggernaut, with the Fate phenomenon comprising multiple series spanning parallel universes and alternate timelines across more animated series, OVAs, movies, manga volumes and games than you can shake a Saint Quartz at. Fate/stay Night: Heaven’s Feel 1. Presage Flower goes […]