“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 […]
Kara no Kyoukai: Spiral Paradox
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 […]
3 Episode Taste Test: Fairy Tail
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 […]
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: Yoku wakaru gendai mahou (Properly learned modern magic)
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 […]







