Where have all the young men gone? Sure there are the military men, barely old enough to hold a meaningful rank, but the Strike Witches 2 universe is entirely bereft of any young boys. Perhaps ages six through sixteen are spent in secret training to reduce the number of assaults due to […]
3 Episode Taste Test: High School of the Dead
There’s definitely a space between “High” and “School” so why High School of the Dead dropped it for the canonical abbreviation H.O.T.D. is unknown but this is just one of many oddities the first three episodes of the zombies-invade-Japan series contains. It plunders recent genre movies with gay abandon but still feels […]
Bygones: Strike Witches
First released: July 2008
It’s easier to think of Strike Witches more as unfulfilling pornography than a more traditional, coherent series; all the hallmarks are present: copious nudity, low camera angles, paper-thin plot, a cast reduced to caricatures, fake lesbianism and innumerable fetishes. It makes it more enjoyable to watch with this in mind […]
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (The Demon King in the Back Row)
Takashi Watanabe obviously woke up one morning, head still groggy from a night of drink, drugs and debauchery, one hand clutching a napkin with a list scrawled on it — ninjas, cyborgs, magic, gods, dragons, breasts — and in the other a production contract, sloppily signed by himself. There is no way else a series as […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (The Demon King in the Back Row)
Harry Potter can’t be entirely to blame for the continuing creation of series based upon a school for adolescent magicians, but Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou borrows a lot more from the ubiquitous boy wizard than can be easily overlooked. Thankfully the pilfering doesn’t last beyond the opening ten minutes, from there the […]







