Com­ing from a fran­chise that star­ted in 1989 and com­prises seven manga volumes, three sep­ar­ate sets of OVAs, a movie and two exten­ded TV shows, it would be easy for Full Throttle to be weighed down by a lot of bag­gage that has gone before it. Thank­fully this isn’t the case and, […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• bubblegum crisis,
• burn up,
• deen,
• full throttle,
• kosuke fujishima,
• miyuki natsumi,
• nineties,
• sol bianca,
• you're under arrest

Put­ting together Pro­duc­tion I.G. and Shirow Masamune is cause for cel­eb­ra­tion nowadays; most noted for his hand in the blind­ingly excel­lent Ghost in the Shell uni­verse, even his lesser known works such as Apple­seed and Domin­ion Tank Police stand out as unique and filled with his trade­mark per­son­al­ity. Given that, it may […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• appleseed,
• audio,
• aural,
• chiaki j konaka,
• ghost hound,
• ghost in the shell,
• mindfuck,
• production ig,
• review,
• ryutaro nakamura,
• shirow masamune

It’s inev­it­able that Mokke is going to be com­pared to the sem­inal Mushishi: it deals with a sim­ilar “hid­den to all but those who can see” neer-do-wells, has a sim­ilar way of deal­ing with them and main­tains the same kind of mor­al­ity about their place within nature. This may sound like Mokke […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• dennou coil,
• grandfather,
• innocence,
• madhouse,
• mokke,
• mushihi,
• nature mushi,
• review,
• sisters,
• spirits,
• supernatural

A mix of French, Eng­lish and what one can only assume is Japan­ese in the title? It must be the school-romance genre. Kimikiss is unashamedly ped­es­trian in its sub­ject mat­ter and plants itself squarely in the mid-teen age range in both con­tent and audi­ence. The first three epis­odes do little else other […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• dating sim,
• kimikiss,
• pure rouge,
• review,
• romance,
• school,
• school days,
• school romance

How do you rearrange the old and tired “child­hood friend” romantic com­edy? Fun­da­ment­ally, you can’t, but set­ting it from the per­spect­ive of the return­ing child­hood friend is a pleas­ant change. Unfor­tu­nately “Myself; Your­self” is still rigidly defined by the same romantic com­edy tem­plate that has been recycled again and again, in the […]

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• 3 episode taste test,
• azumanga,
• comedy,
• dogakobo,
• myself,
• romance,
• romantic comedy,
• saikano,
• secret,
• tomoko kaneda,
• yourself