Shinra Kusakabe and the Fire Force Company members have returned from their journey to the Chinese Peninsula, having discovered that the generator powering the Tokyo Empire contains a human with an Adolla Burst inside its core. Meanwhile, the powerful and influential Haijima Industries has been monitoring Shinra and his Adolla Burst abilities, and have been […]
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax tackles the tricky task of keeping the momentum up with the series while trying to resolve a number of loose ends for this third and final season. Picking up after the second season, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax presents a challenge to the Service Club by taking the […]
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Complete Season 1+2, as the name suggests, brings together the first 2 seasons of My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, also known by it’s more palatable translation (at least to me) My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected. On the surface it reads like it has all the makings […]
Referred to fondly as ‘The Samurai’ by his fans due to his ponytail, Jotaro Aragaki is an olympic-level Japanese gymnast who has been losing relevency as he grows older and can’t keep up with the new generation of gymnasts. When his coach suggests retirement, Jotaro attempts to break the news to his daughter Rei during […]
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 […]