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 […]
Humanity is teetering on the edge of extinction, with 90 per cent of the human population wiped out by dangerous creatures known as the Gadoll. The remaining humans have taken shelter behind the armoured walls of Deca-dence, a moving city and the final stronghold of humanity. The city’s soldiers – known as Gears – venture […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kakushi Goto loves his ten-year-old daughter Hime more than anything else in the world. However, he’s keeping a terrible secret from her, one that Hime must never discover – that he is a lewd manga author. In his desperation to make his daughter think that he is just a regular office worker, Kakushi wears a […]
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 […]
Following Special Fire Force Company 8’s attack on the White-Clad cultists, Shinra Kusakabe is more determined than ever to stop the cultists’ plans, figure out a way to cure infernals, and put an end to the condition of Spontaneous Human Combustion. But as a pyrokinetic in possession of an Adolla Burst, Shinra’s connection to others […]
Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls heads down a well-trodden sports anime mould, in this instance looking to explore the journey of an all-girls high school baseball team aiming to make it to the top while starting from nothing. Yomi Takeda had given up baseball during middle school after finding herself discouraged that her team mates weren’t […]
Developed by the Tezuka Productions and MAPPA animation studios, Dororo (2019) is an adaptation of the 1969 Dororo anime, based on the manga of the same name by the prolific “father of Manga”, Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). However, the series goes beyond simply adapting the original story and adding […]
Lapis Re:Lights is a distinctly Japanese flavour of anime – it’s part of a multimedia franchise, folds in bubblegum fantasy with idol music groups and uses the power of love and music to defeat armies of monsters. Lapis Re:Lights focuses on Princess Tiara who has gone against the wishes of her family to attend the […]