2012 Anime of the Year Awards and Top 10

This was the thinking pose the various members of The Cart Driver had to adopt while considering their nominations. 2012 was a fairly unremarkable year for anime. Nothing really shook the industry, unless you count terrible light novel adaptations with ridiculous titles as ‘shaking the industry’. It wasn’t a particularly bad year either, which would……

Scamp’s top 10 anime of 2012

2012 was a year in which anime was made. Some of them were really good. Most of them were not. After doing this yearly roundup thing for the past few years, I’m starting to realise that every year is pretty much equal quality-wise. When you have 100+ anime released every year, everything starts to balance……

12 Days of Anime #3: Lucius shows off his archery skills

Thermae Romae is the best Noitamina anime to finish in 2012 (adding in ‘to finish’ because I’d rate Psycho Pass as being better). Sure it’s partly a commentary on how the timeslot continued its poor form from last year that its best show was some 3 episode flash anime, but that’s giving Thermae Romae way……

Thermae Romae Live-Action Review

The catalyst for blogging while I’m on holiday appears to be in-flight movies. My only other post over this break of mine was when the only option of movie to watch was some awful Eddie Murphy comedy, so I busied myself with writing about Space Bros instead. On my flight back to Ireland though, thankfully……