“Don’t burn, be moe” is how Kara no Kyoukai: Obli­vion Recorder starts, the stop-motion vign­ette ufot­able are known for as ador­able as ever. It’s an inaus­pi­cious mes­sage for a series which so far has staunchly avoided anime tropes, but unfor­tu­nately the new prot­ag­on­ist Azaka is every bit as viva­cious and anim­ated as […]

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• Anime,
• azaka,
• boarding,
• boukyaku rokuon,
• boundary of emptiness,
• christian,
• faeries,
• fairies,
• fire,
• god's word,
• kara no kyoukai,
• magic,
• memory,
• oblivion,
• recorder,
• review,
• school,
• shiki,
• touko

This is the movie that Kara no Kyoukai has been build­ing up to. This is the movie that pro­pels the series from bril­liant to astound­ing. This is one of the best anime movies ever cre­ated. It starts with a stark black and white divided screen, the name of the film emblazoned across […]

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• Anime,
• apartments,
• araya,
• boundary of emptiness,
• cornelius,
• magic,
• mikiya,
• movie 5,
• mujun rasen,
• paradox,
• puppets,
• reality,
• review,
• shiki,
• sorcerer,
• spiral,
• spiral paradox,
• time,
• toko

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

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 […]

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• breasts,
• demons,
• evil,
• fan-service,
• fanservice,
• magic,
• medieval,
• monsters,
• sacred blacksmith,
• sword porn,
• swords

There are many good panty epis­odes in anime: epis­ode four of Mai-HiME springs to mind as one, epis­ode three of Yoku wakaru gendai mahou is not. Whereas the former had comic tim­ing well bey­ond what one would have expec­ted its stu­dio to be able to pro­duce, the lat­ter is taw­dry, bor­ing  tripe […]

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• fantasy,
• magic,
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• review,
• yoku wakaru gendai mahou