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Yet another samurai anime! Haven’t we seen enough of these? But wait! Onimusha stands out. No, it’s not the story. It’s. . . . I’ll get to that. Aging samurai Musashi joins with a team of fellow samurai to hunt down the traitor Iemon. In the way lay a series of demons raised from the dead...

Nope. Pluto is not about Mickey Mouse’s dog. What is Pluto? Or who is Pluto? Pluto is the Roman name for the god of the underworld. Could it be that he is real and that he returned? No. More likely it is something much worse. So in an alternate Earth and in a future time, artificial...

For fans of Black Clover, here comes Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, featuring all of your favorite characters crammed into one movie – whether there is room for them or not. A former Wizard King named Conrad breaks out of the prison in which the current king Julius has placed him. And...

Oh great. This is going to be a knock-off of Sword Art Online, isn’t it? A bunch of gamers go into a virtual world and become characters of their own choosing. But wait! Good Night World is not like SAO at all. It’s dark. Very, very dark. And I like it dark. Taichico is one of the players...

So Trevor and Sypha did their jobs. Three hundred years later, a new generation must take up the fight against vampires. Welcome to the world of Castlevania: Nocturne, sequel to the first Castlevania. Richter Belmont has taken up with the family business of hunting vampires. He teams up with...

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The world is in danger of destruction. Of course by saying “the world,” I mean Japan. The Japanese military stands by helplessly as its government debates what to do. All defense falls upon the hapless American army. (Is there a political message in there?) But mankind has a secret weapon! ...

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Suzume is about a titular character, a girl who meets a guy who seals doors to keep a giant worm from causing earthquakes to places in Japan. Without giving away anything more, it was directed by Makoto Shinkai of Your Name and Weathering With You fame. Talk about outdoing yourself. This movie was...

I’m sorry. I tried my best to get through this series, but six episodes is all I could stomach. I just can’t watch any more of From Me to You. If I tried to stick with it for all 25 episodes of season one, I don’t think I would have survived. So we have a high school girl named Sawaku who...

My Happy Marriage is not a romantic adventure, but rather an adventurous romance. It is also a drama dealing with broken family relationships, with a bit of a supernatural threat thrown in. Miyo is the daughter of a highly respected aristocrat by a previous relationship. When her younger...

Season 2 of Vinland Saga is available, so let the blood flow freely. The second season starts off several years after season one ended. Thorfinn, the cold-hearted Viking warrior, is now a slave. How that came about we don’t know yet. Or at least through the first 16 episodes, we don’t know. ...

Go back a while. I did a write-up on the animated series Ultraman -- https://www.animeforum.com/showthread.php?134375-Ultraman-(2019) It was only one season, but guess what! Netflix Streaming finally has the six episode season 2 and the 12 episode season 3. What took them so long? So we...

Yes, Baki Hanma: Son of Ogre does have a plot. Yes, there is a story. Unfortunately, neither is important. All that matters is that a bunch of grossly muscular men are beating the crap out of each other. Baki is about to take on his father in a battle to the death. But first he has to...

A review I posted in a comment on Youtube a while back: Although I am a part-time otaku and there are many, many animes I greatly enjoy, there are only three that have impressed me enough to be added to my library: Chobits, Masshiro Iro Symphony, and Ai Yori Aoshi. I love AYA because it...

So I went and made a short video delving into the ways Fullmetal Alchemist uses themes of birth and sexual reproduction using manga chapters and TV show eps as a reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_spFLBM-REQ There's no end card in the video, so I'll say this here. If you enjoyed the...

Exclusively on Netflix Streaming comes a comedy-adventure series with all the usual clichés, but still with a fresh, exciting look. It’s called Skull Island, and it is worth a watch. I should note this is not a Japanese anime, though the influence is obvious. The artwork is not done in manga...

It is Japan of the Edo Era. Not only the Edo Era, but also an alternate universe. Here history is a little different. An illness called Red Face Small Pox strikes only young males, reducing the male population to the point that society can only now function with women doing the work and men used...

Did I just walk into the middle of something? Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune is about a war being fought for some reason. There’s the Trade Association army, which raises the question of why a trade association would have an army. Various planets and civilizations are members, meaning that the...

The Digimon Adventure 02 cast is back!! This time, they meet a DigiDestined named Owada Rui, who is "the first DigiDestined to be partnered with a Digimon." They find him after seeing him fall from Tokyo Tower. The film opens in Japan on October 27th, 2023.

Can an anime with a thin plot and cliché-filled storyline still be entertaining? Oddly, yes. Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya has a few things going against it. The story seems too familiar and predictable. Yet the 3D animation is great, and the character development suburb. I actually found...

I admit to being at a disadvantage here. I have seen a few episodes of Case Closed, but I never really followed the series. Still that does not seem to have interfered with my enjoyment of Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa, a fun-but-dump spoof of the parent series. I did have to do some...

Mononoke is a series dealing with the supernatural. A nameless medicine vendor travels through Japan fighting these demons known as mononoke. Well, that’s about it. I did want to like this stylish series, but unfortunately, it does fall flat. The twelve episode series tells various tales...

OK, so what was I watching here? Bee and PuppyCat seems to be a remake of a remake by the original creators of a short animated film. It is not a Japanese anime. This series is American made, but it does have some Japanese anime story elements. There is a talking cat, which only Bee seems to...

She’s back! Retsuko, that cute little red panda with a death metal heart, a job she hates, and a non-existent love life. . . . Opps! Wait a minute! She now has a love life! Retsuko has finally hooked up with Haida for season 5 of Aggretsuko. But things are not quite as happy as they should...

What is an anime series doing with a name based on a Clint Eastwood quote? Fortunately, the title is the only thing about Make My Day which I didn’t like. I did like the story, the characters, and of course the action. Jim is a would-be artist working part-time as a prison guard on the planet...

Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is an anthology series based on manga by Junji Ito. Each episode is a separate story or two dealing with some sort of supernatural horror. Though original, some of the tales are not that interesting. Others, especially those at the end of the...

It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Well, most likely it is. Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure combines computer animation with live action to give you a series for the whole family. The plot seems more made for kids, but like all really good children’s’ entertainment, it provides a bit...

So here is yet another coming of age anime. True Tears really doesn’t add anything new to the genre, but it does have a character driven storyline with some interesting characters who are well defined. Shinichirou meets Noe, a strange girl who rumor has it can put a curse on people. She is...