The Bloody Matter of Anime

The Bloody Matter of Anime

Cartoons are a kids market. Right? Everyone knows that children watch cartoons, and then when they’re a bit older, they watch TV shows about teenagers, and then they watch adult shows like The Walking Dead, Dexter, Breaking Bad… you know, blood and guts and grisliness, […]

Anime Review: Code Geass

Anime Review: Code Geass

So, after reviewing Argevollen and Aldnoah.Zero some time ago, I had an uncontrollable itch to go back and watch one of my favorite mecha shows… or because I’ve seen it all before, all my favorite moments and it’s sublime ending. It’s called Code Geass: Lelouch […]

Anime Review: Yakitake! Ja-Pan

Anime Review: Yakitake! Ja-Pan

If you’re a fan of anime, you’ll know that amongst all of the excellent anime I recommend there’s a high level of weird, weird stuff out there that I just ignore and let sink into oblivion. Some shows just have weird bits, some are predominantly […]

Anime Review: Argevollen and Aldnoah

Anime Review: Argevollen and Aldnoah

A new season of anime, and with it, as per usual, a new crop of mecha shows. Japanese boys have always loved giant humanoid robots going at each other with guns and swords, and with the continued unwarranted success of the Transformers movies, it’s clear […]

Anime Review: Bodacious Space Pirates

Anime Review: Bodacious Space Pirates

This week, perhaps the best named Japanese anime EVER – Bodacious Space Pirates! Or Moretsu Pirates in the original Japanese. Bodacious. Space. Pirates. What more is there to say? The story plunders (ho ho) from historical pirates, but is set IN THE FUTURE, where humanity […]

Anime Review: No Game No Life

Anime Review: No Game No Life

A new season of anime started around the start of April, and as your resident anime reviewer, I scanned the big list to find my new favorite show. Turns out, I’m getting pretty jaded in my old age though. Most of the shows that interested […]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Which to Watch?

So, as I explained last week, there are two TV shows called Fullmetal Alchemist, born out of the strange system that is Japanese broadcasting. The stories begin the same, both spawned from the same manga, but diverge about a third of the way through. One […]

Anime Culture: Subtitled Vs Dubbed

Anime Culture: Subtitled Vs Dubbed

Most of the anime out there (with a few notable exceptions) is Made In Japan. And that means it’s all in Japanese originally. A lot of us first met the world of anime through translations into English, and, don’t get me wrong, some of those […]

Cowboy Bebop

Anime Review: Cowboy Bebop

Here it is. The Classic. The Old Standard. The Jewel of the Nineties. I’m making all these names up as I go, but I’m trying to make a point. Everyone who loves anime inevitably finds this show, usually from lists of The Best Anime Ever, […]

Kuroko no Basuke

Anime Review: Kuroko No Basuke

There’s something you should know about me before I start this article: I’m not a big fan of playing sports. I join in if it’s what everyone’s doing, but I don’t actively seek sports to play. I’m even less interested in watching sports. And most […]

tokyo ravens

Anime Review: Tokyo Ravens

OK, I was honestly quite excited by the possibilities of Tokyo Ravens. I’d read the first couple of chapters of the manga, and they’d been fun. Danger, excitement, love, mystery, a rebellion, magic and spirits… yeah, it seemed like it could work. The hero, Harutora, […]