March Roundup

Rather sad news this month. The acclaimed director Noburo Ishiguro died, at the ripe old age of 73. There are 3 titles he’s known for that make him one of the most important and influential anime directors ever. There were Macross and Yamato, neither of which I’ve seen so I can’t really make a comment……

Why Sakuga MADs rub me the wrong way

We all know AMVs. Spliced together scenes from anime to the backing track of the creator’s favourite song. Everyone has their stories of how a certain AMV got them interested in a certain anime (although I’m struggling to think of a personal example). However some AMVs cobble together clips from various different anime. Sometimes it’s……

Winter 2012 Anime Season Preview

Ya’ll ready for another round of Senjogahara Fascination? Welcome to the world famous (not really) Cart Driver Season Preview. I usually kick off these posts with some sort of satirical mocking of the ‘everything sucks’ crowd, but since I shall be making a similar statement throughout the course of this post, it would perhaps be……

Demonbane – Visual Novel Review

Almost 2 months since the last visual novel review, and I finally get out another one. Was this because I was so entranced by Demonbane that I had to play through each and every single route of this mammoth game to get the full experience? Or was it because I kept putting off playing any……

Steins;Gate episode 22

Are you the kind of person who shuts off the video as soon as the ending song starts playing? Did you do that for this episode of Steins;Gate too, even though the ending song was different and you probably should have realised that something was up? If you did shut it off, then quick, go……

The Devil on G String – Visual Novel Review

I was originally going to post about the last Break Blade movie, but my internet provider sent me a message complaining about how much I was downloading this month. Not sure if it would be particularly happy if, as soon as I got that message, I went off and downloaded a 1 gig video. So……

Summer 2011 Anime Season Preview

To sound like a knowledgeable season previewer, there are a couple of things you must do. Check out the source material. It doesn’t matter how much of the source material you check out. This is just to flaunt your superior knowledge over those who don’t know any better Throw out the names of the animation……

Freezing episode 1

For the record, just because I write about the first episode of a new show this season doesn’t mean I have any intention of writing about it weekly. Writing about every first episode is my fail-safe method of not picking up something unless it’s proven itself with at least two episodes. Secondly, just because I……

Dub vs Sub Debate using Dominion Tank Police

Charging straight what is probably the longest running and most frequently fought debates the world of anime has ever and will ever see. This wouldn’t be an anime blog if I didn’t at least once tackle the subject. So time to toss aside the many other famous anime arguments I frequently engage in over the……

Fall 1995 Anime Season Preview

I know it will take forever for even fansubbed tapes to get over here, let alone official releases, but there’s such a hoarde of anime coming out over the coming Autumn/Fall season that I thought a preview would be a great way to garner some hype and anticipation. Anyway, enough of an introduction, time to……