Cast­ing Aya Hir­ano as the lead char­ac­ter is not the worst thing that Fairy Tail does, but it comes close. Her voice is so iden­ti­fi­able and her status so con­found­ingly over­whelm­ing that it over­shad­ows many of the other more accom­plished act­ors such as Rie Kugim­iya (Alphonse from Full­metal Alchem­ist) and Tet­suya Kakihara […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• combat,
• dragon,
• eiichiro oda,
• fairy tail,
• fanservice,
• fantasy,
• guild,
• hiro mashima,
• lucy,
• magic,
• natsu,
• one piece,
• review,
• shounen

Visu­ally at least, Let­ter Bee is remark­ably strik­ing: washes of indigo and pin­pricks of grey-whites make it aes­thet­ic­ally strong; how­ever in the per­petual twi­light of the fantasy world it por­trays, appre­ci­ation turns quickly into indif­fer­ence. The motif of particles drift­ing softly from the sky is over­used to the point where its original […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• amber,
• Anime,
• dingo,
• fantasy,
• gauche,
• gun,
• lag seeing,
• letter,
• letter bee,
• postman,
• review,
• tegami bachi

The CLAMP power­house whirs back to anim­ated life after the jug­ger­naut of Tsub­asa Reser­voir Chron­icle and the most recent xxxHolic, this time with a prot­ag­on­ist that has a more than coin­cid­ental like­ness to a cer­tain green-haired girl cre­ated by Kiy­ohiko Azuma. Kobato is an undeni­ably twee pro­duc­tion but, unlike other out­puts by […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• child,
• clamp,
• hearts,
• kids,
• kobato,
• kompetio,
• maaya sakamoto,
• madhouse,
• nursery,
• review,
• saccharine,
• twee

Sasameki Koto takes place in a land of almost per­petual sun­sets, golden skies and scenery aflame with oranges, all the while impres­sion­able young girls stand in front of illu­min­ated classrooms blush­ing with pos­sib­il­ity. The series lays in thick and fast and doesn’t ever pre­var­ic­ate as to what the major­ity of it will […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• comedy,
• crossdressing,
• gay,
• girls,
• lesbian,
• review,
• romance,
• sasameki koto,
• school,
• sumika murasame,
• ushio kazama,
• whispered words,
• yuri,
• yurifest

Begin­ning Winter Son­ata without know­ing its lin­eage is open­ing one­self up for con­fu­sion. While super­fi­cially Japan­ese, the series ori­gin­ates in South Korea, adap­ted from a non-animated drama series of which Winter Son­ata is the second of four which are col­lect­ively known as “End­less Love”. The ori­ginal tele­vi­sion cast are brought on in […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• drama,
• endless love,
• joon sang kang,
• k-wave,
• korean,
• music,
• nostalgia,
• piano,
• review,
• romance,
• romantic,
• sonata,
• subtitles,
• winter,
• winter sonata,
• yujin jung