When one’s premise is a magical fuel present only in breast milk and requires young children to extract this via the most obvious method available, having an censored version available on all but the most liberal of television channels seems counter-productive. The uncensored version fills in a lot of the gaps that […]
Queen’s Blade (Season 2)
The first season of Queen’s Blade was underwhelming, beyond the initial deviance on display it went only slightly further than many of the other fighting-fanservice genre shows and exploited none of the opportunities a guaranteed late night, paid channel slot offers. Season two does nothing to change this status quo and, if […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Sora no Otoshimono (Heaven’s Lost Property)
Around the ending credits of the second episode one realises that they’ve just watched a flock of women’s underwear take flight, some with mock jet-streams behind them. That the key element of Sora no Otoshimono’s story — a busty, docile angel that fell from a hole in the sky — is the most tame concept of the series demonstrates […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Seiken no Blacksmith (The Sacred Blacksmith)
Seiken no Blacksmith is about as close to sword porn as anime is likely to get — gratuitous close-ups of everything from katanas to two-handed broadswords, even a sword that turns into a scantily clothed female — there is no doubt that someone on the production team has a borderline fetish for the weapons. It is […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Kiddy Girl-and
Kiddy Grade has had a troubled upbringing: originally aired in 2002 by a still vaguely respectable Gonzo, it was an unremarkable series until past the half-way point when it briefly became excellent then dipped back down to a simmering mediocre. Notable only insofar that it was directed by Keiji Gotoh who also […]







