Spring 2014 Anime Season Preview

Hey guess what The Cart Driver writers are excited for this season? I’ll give you a clue: It has the letters J and O in the title. It may even have each of those letters twice. A little bit later than usual, but welcome to The Cart Driver’s World Famous [citation needed] Anime Season Preview,……

2003 Anime: Last Exile

Last Exile is a big classic adventure anime featuring a heavy steampunk aesthetic and dodgy early 00’s Gonzo CGI. It tells the story of Klaus and Lavie, two pilots of little messenger aircraft-type things called Vanships. They take over a mission to deliver a little girl called Alvis to a renegade sky ship called the……

Spring 2013 Anime Season Preview

This is the 19th season preview listed on this website’s archives. 20 if I feel like counting the one I did for summer 2008 back on an old livejournal blog where I only covered about 3 upcoming anime and I predicted that Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret would be the next Haruhi Suzumiya. So I’ve been getting……

Fall 2011 Anime Season Preview

This upcoming anime season sucks compared to my ridiculously high standards. The only ones I’m looking forward to is this adaptation of a manga I’m reading that isn’t finished yet so I’ll complain about the adaptation having an original ending, and a sequel. Is it my imagination, or has every season been getting worse since……

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……

Fractale episode 9

Zzzzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuto! (Constipated Nessa is moe). Do I even need to compare this guy to Hamdo anymore? Gripping the sides of his head and yelling hysterically just puts him even more on the path of the Hellywood dictator. Plus my poll from the last episode showed that a good 40% of my readers had seen at……

Winter 2002 Anime Season Preview

With fansubs being released digitally the new way to watch anime, now more than ever we can watch what the Japanese are also watching within the same week it airs. No more do we have to wait for years before the western companies license the thing and no longer do we have to rely on……

12 Days of Anime #9: Stepping into the Count’s Room

Gankutsuou is my favourite anime I’ve watched this year. Despite that, I don’t really have an awful lot to say about it, beyond “it’s great, go watch it now”. It wasn’t a story that made me think or leaving much in the way of lasting impressions. It was just pure entertainment that kept me on……

No anime is dropped forever 67-100

No anime is dropped forever. However projects like these must come to an end at some time. All that’s left is a Tokyo Magnitude review and a final roundup. ‘But wait a goddarn second here’ I hear you say. ‘You said at the start of every single one of these posts that you had dropped……

No anime is dropped forever 56-60

There is no such thing as drop­ping an anime forever. When I use the term ‘dropped’ that does not mean that’s the last I’ll see of that anime in my life. Drop­ping a show means that I don’t have the enthu­si­asm to watch this show cur­rently and at a later date I’ll return to that anime. This later date may be……