Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by…next year, maybe? When I heard that a new Sailor Moon series was in the works, I was sitting in “Cafe Talisman,” a Sailor Moon-themed cafe in Osaka, Japan. Nearly spitting out my “Tuxedo Mask Latte,” a wave of nostalgia hit me as my […]
Btooom!: Explosions, More Explosions, and…?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEV16SObPZY] Anime set in a virtual reality world aren’t new: take series like .hack//SIGN, Sword Art Online, and Accel World, for example. The characters are taken from the comfort of the “real world” and placed into the game space itself. A death of a character, once a meaningless hurdle, is […]
Psycho-Pass: A Lesson in Morality
It doesn’t matter if you’re into anime or not. Psycho-Pass should be something you watch. Although I can’t say it’ll ever reach Cowboy Bebop or Dragon Ball Z proportions in terms of westernization, Psycho-Pass doesn’t need that. This is an anime worth watching for its themes, its content, and its […]
From Up on Poppy Hill is Charming, but with a Twist!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vfzhfq5JA] While I’ve seen almost every Studio Ghibli film—you know, the animation studio that brought you films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle—I never got around to watching From Up on Poppy Hill. It’s the most recent release and, more importantly, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki, directed the film. […]
The Pacific Rim Trailer Is Two Parts Gundam With A Dash of Evangelion And a Hint of RahXephon
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZcqwvQbas] Hollywood is finally getting hip to the giant robot craze. Next year’s Pacific Rim will join last year’s Real Steel – and I suppose the Transformer series – in the budding giant robot genre. Of course, fans of Japanese anime have been long familiar with giant robots. And Pacific Rim seems […]
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