Digimon Adventure Tri Part 6 closes out a marathon run for the series. With expectations high after the dramatic end to Part 5, it will be interesting to see how the team wrap up this final theatrical release. In the aftermath of Taiichi getting swallowed up by the earth and Hikari triggering an almost Eva-like […]
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya made enormous waves when it hit the anime community back in 2006. With two TV series’ and a movie in the mix, Madman’s timely release of all of this into a single collection has created a great opportunity to go back and revisit all the crazy antics of the SOS […]
90s Sailor Moon excite continues with the release of Sailor Moon SuperS Part 2 to Blu-Ray, officially catching up to the previous R1 releases of this magic girl classic. Sailor Moon SuperS Part 2 continues the usual monster of the week formula from its predecessors with the Amazon Trio being reasonably useless at their job, […]
Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, is a high schooler with immense psychic powers. To keep his powers in check, Mob works as an assistant for con man and self-proclaimed psychic master Reigen Arataka, performing odd jobs for a variety of clientele whose issues range from true hauntings to blemishes on photos that are supposedly evil spirits. […]
Fireworks, an animated remake of Shunji Iwai’s 1993 TV drama/1995 live action film, made a big impact for SHAFT in 2017 as their highest-grossing theatrical feature to date. With a seemingly classic premise of repeating a single day over and over in the frame of a romantic drama, it will be interesting to see how […]
Sailor Moon S: The Movie is delightfully inconsequential. Is it essential viewing though? Let’s dive in and see what 1994 Toei was able to smash out… Sailor Moon S: The Movie takes place in the TV series’ continuity at a time of… some sort. Like most of the Toei theatrical spins based off their popular […]
The private security company known as Tekkadan has made a name for itself after escorting the revolutionary Kudelia Aina Bernstein to Earth and ensuring that exile Makanai reassumed his position as Prime Minister of the Arbrau nation. Although the losses were great and many Tekkadan members died during the journey, their victory exposed the corruption […]
Digimon Adventure Tri is back in the second to last entry in this epic theatrical series. With Part 4 stumbling somewhat in execution, it will be interesting to see how the story recovers in this latest release. Digimon Adventure Tri Part 5 follows in its predecessors’ footsteps by directly continuing the longform narrative of the […]
My experience with the Digimon series consists of fuzzy memories of the first and second Digimon Adventure seasons from my childhood, fond memories of the Digimon Adventure, Children’s War Game! and Hurricane Touchdown films, and a fervent love for the third season, Digimon Tamers, which I waxed poetical about in my review of the series last […]
Kei and Ko have managed to stay one step ahead of the Japanese Government and those who would capture them for being Ajin – an unkillable human who is sought after to be used in inhumane experiments as a valuable specimen. But as the Ajin terrorist Sato begins his second wave of attacks against those […]