Tag: Anime
A Certain Magical Index
The J. C. Staff studios anime, A Certain Magical Index, is but one of many media texts adapted from a series of light novels by Kazuma Kamachi. Kamachi’s saga of science and magic also spawned a manga, video games, an OVA, and even an upcoming film. The spinoff manga, A Certain Scientific Railgun, was previously [...]
Shakugan no Shana: Season II
I first encountered this highly-addictive anime through FUNimation Entertainment’s Blu-ray release of Shakugan no Shana’s first season, repackaging the same portion previously released by Geneon with the original dub and all. That release, while collecting 24 episodes of an absolutely terrific series, left me wanting a bit more from FUNimation’s future releases of the title, [...]
Is This a Zombie?
Is This a Zombie? offers a unique interpretation of what it would be like to live as a zombie. As a zombie, Ayumu Aikawa, has to figure out how to live a semi-normal existence, all the while slowly building a harem-like household and trying to figure out why he died in the first place. There are a [...]
Level E: The Complete Series
I don’t know precisely what it is that Yoshihiro Togashi does to endear me so to his work. Indeed, I have harbored such an intense emotional bond with Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter that they stand firmly among my most treasured manga/anime of all time. Those familiar with Togashi know that he has [...]
Black Lagoon: The Complete Collection
Black Lagoon is an action junkie’s wet dream and one of the finest anime TV series that Studio Madhouse has ever put together. Based off of the manga from Rei Hiroe, Black Lagoon follows a group of modern day pirates called Lagoon Company. The group consists of Dutch, the leader and driver of the group, [...]
Serial Experiments Lain Boxed Set
While the year isn’t quite over yet, I have found my home video release of the year and little did I think that it would be from an anime TV series that’s 14 years old. Serial Experiments Lain was a multimedia project, that included an art book, a Playstation video game and a 13 episode [...]
Ristorante Paradiso
Ristorante Paradiso is a delightfully charming slice-of-life anime about family, love, and a quirky restaurant in Rome. Ristorante Paradiso shows us that there are many types of love, whether familial, romantic or even with careers. This aspect is not directly pushed down our throat at every turn, we just begin to see it as we [...]
Tenchi in Tokyo
My familiarity with the Tenchi Muyo series has only been recent, with my first excursion being Tenchi Universe. Its been a series that I’ve overall avoided over the years, due to my inability to enjoy any facet of the harem genre of anime. Even with my distaste for it, I could see the reasons why [...]
Tenchi Universe
Anyone that knows me and my tastes in anime, should very well know that I loathe the harem genre in all of its various forms. It’s a genre that has, in my opinion, done nothing to enhance the richness of anime’s means of expression. So when it came time to review Funimation’s new rerelease of [...]
Hellsing Ultimate: Episodes V-VIII Boxed Set
The wait for more episodes of Hellsing Ultimate to come out in the U.S. has been extremely long, but after seeing these four episodes in this latest boxed set, I can honestly say that it was worth every single second! Millennium, the secret Nazi group, Iscariot, the Vatican’s elite squad of demon hunters and the [...]
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