Category: Reviews
Blu-ray Review: Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon)
Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon) is a pretty, mediocre anime film, whose lovely background art and battle animation cannot quite make up for a lack of character depth and emotional connection.
Chihayafuru: The Rules of the Shoujo Game
I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?
Live-Action Ranma 1/2: Damage Assessment With Joy To Spare
So it has come to pass. As the great Stephen Tobolowsky once said that was something to the effect of, “When you take a…
Through Older Lenses : California Crisis
Sure we’re virtually well out of the sphere of merely looking into the 1980s as a trendy hot-point of discussion, but what often doesn’t…
Thoughts about Gate 7
Chikahito Takamoto is a normal high school student from Tokyo visiting his dream city of Kyoto. While visiting a site, he comes upon a battle…