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Retsuko, that cute little. . . . Bear? Cat? I’m not really sure. But she is back facing the everyday challenges of being a working girl. Only this time she has new problems. There is this psycho new employee. There’s Retuko’s mom, who thinks at 25 her daughter is a spinster. But can it be...

Season two of Forest of Piano? Not bad, but also not quite up to the standards of season one. Season two almost entirely takes place at an international Chopin competition held in Poland. Both Kai and Shuhei go head to head, not only with each other but with pianists from all over the world. In...

Bits and pieces may seem familiar from other anime, but so what? March Comes in Like a Lion contains elements from such varied series as Your Lie in April and Big Windup. But it does it so well. Rei is not your normal high schooler. He is a professional shogi player. Shogi is a type of...

So much promise. The Wallflower begins with four effeminate high school boys, whom the girls all lust after. A wealthy woman offers them the use of one of her mansions as a rent free home, provided they turn her niece Sunako, aka the Creepy Girl, into a real lady. OK. There are numerous...

Apparently Moeyo Ken TV is based on a video game. Usually when an anime is based on a video game, a story is created and the characters given their own personalities. Not here. The series is set in an alternate Earth, where monsters live with humans. Although to keep the peace, monsters are...

Our favorite hot, sexy gambling addict, Yumeko is back with more adventures and more games. Season two of Kakegurui continues the saga, but can it compete with season one? Things are heating up at Hyakkao Private Academy, where gambling is on par with one’s studies. Student Council President...

Bear with me for a second. I’m still trying to figure out the whole plot. The beginning of Revisions is simple enough. A young boy named Daisuke is saved from a kidnapping by an agent of the future named Milo. Milo tells Daisuke that his destiny is to save the world. After that it gets pretty...

And now the show which makes you ask the question, “WTF?” Gregory Horror Show offers a good concept. First, visually it is not what you think of when you think of anime. It looks like old school animation, or an old Dire Straits music video. Characters have square heads, and move like they...

Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was this live action kids’ show from Japan called Ultraman. A generation later, it is time for a new Ultraman – and this one is animated. And not for kids! There is a bit of blood, some limb hacking, disembowelment of aliens, and a bit of...

To start off and give you an idea how forgettable this season of one of my favorite anime is, my husband didn't even realize we had missed an episode until I reminded him last night. This show is about Saitama, a normal guy who decided to become a hero for fun, and is so powerful he can defeat...

There’s a talking bird here! That’s your first warning. Jing: King of Bandits, aka King of Bandits Jing, does tend to lean on the juvenile side, and quite frankly juvenile anime does not interest me anymore. Unless it’s got a tinge of darkness or something for the adults. But I only made it...

The full title is Ingress: The Animation, which leads me to think this anime series may be based on a live action show. Maybe, but I will let someone else look that up. I’m here to talk about the anime. So the world is full of something called XM, which most people can’t see. But those with...

I was hoping that Diamond Daydreams was about baseball. But when I saw the alternative title of Diamond Dust Drops, I knew my hopes were dashed. OK, so there is no baseball. What there is are six stories, all told in two parts, of young women trying to cope with life and love. So this is a...

OK so I'm kind of biased considering this is the first manga I ever read and the manga/anime I credit for getting me into the genre, but I'll try to keep this impartial. Looks: 8/10 - the animation is STUNNING. However, the fights lack depth. This isn't really a fighting anime so I don't hold...

Hey everybody it's me again with one of those review deal-ios. I'm just banging them out over here. Don't mind me. Looks: 9.99/10 - jeezus this show looks good. I'd give it 10/10 but I'm trying to make a point out of not giving anything a truly perfect score unless I really think it's...

So I'm not really going to put in too many spoilers to start. I can add more if people want or I'm guessing a few people will post spoilers here anyway. Please feel free to post your own score of this movie, share your thoughts, favorite and least favorite scenes, etc. Of course, make sure...

The full name of this series is Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online. But that’s a bit too much to put on the title line. So anyway. Remember the second season of SOL? Kirito entered a new virtual reality game to discover why people who die in the game also die in real life. Since...

OK, so we have Manji, an expert swordsman, who has a Nazi swastika on his back and who keeps getting the crap kicked out of him in every fight. Fortunately he is immortal, so when left for dead he always recovers to attack his enemy from behind. So much for Blade of the Immortal. There is also...

With a name like Hi Score Girl, you would expect the main character to be female. Nope. This is the story of Haruo, a schoolboy with no particular talents outside of being a master of the video game arcade. There is literally no other interest in his life, until. . . . Hi Score Girl is a...

Once upon a time, Lawrence the Peddler was about to leave a small town to resume his travels. When who did he find sleeping in his wagon? A naked girl! With a tail and furry ears! She is Holo the Wise Wolf, and so begins our tale of Spice and Wolf. OK, what about Holo? She is a wolf spirit...

OK, first I have to admit I did not watch the entire series. I just could not put myself through that. Sitting through all five discs of Peach Girl will require more stamina and will power than what I have. So I stopped at disc 2 after the first nine episodes. Momo is a teen with a bad...

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion is the third movie based on the anime series. The first two were really rehashes of the original series, retelling the story with few differences. This time we get an entirely new story. But is this where the tale ends? We start off by seeing...

OK, so what exactly was I watching? Interstella 5555 begins on a planet of blue people where a band is giving a concert which everyone enjoys. This is sort of strange in that the music really sucks. Anyway, a group of soldiers invades, kidnaps the band, wipes their memories, paints three of...

Well, it looks like the vampires are back. But here come the Jaegers to save us. That’s Jaegers with the European J, which sounds like a Y. The team is led by Professor Willard, and includes sexy Dorothea, muscleman Fallon, and hot-headed kid Phillip. But let’s not forget the star of our show,...

Five convicted murderers from around the planet, all super-strong masters of the martial arts, escape and travel to Japan to meet in a no-rules duel with five other muscle-bound, super-strong masters of the martial arts. Their real mission? Try to develop some interest in an anime series which...

OK. Here we go again. Once more the remnants of the human race, here called The Iron Tribe, faces extinction at the hands of their enemy, here known as the Silver Tribe. No particular reason. But the bad guys have some nasty space bugs. Need I go on? Might as well. Heroic Age takes a...

Care to read about a gritty crime anime? One full of gangsters, mob bosses, and corruption? The you’d better go somewhere else, because Back Street Girls is not that anime. The premise of Back Street Girls is pretty simple. Three yakuza screw up and anger their boss. So as punishment, they...

As the Youis attack, only the Ayashi can save us. Anyone know who will save the Ayashi? Ghost Slayers Ayashi is the story of Yukiatsu, a former son of nobility turned vagrant, who joins up with a team of Ayashis. There is Abi the mountain man, Edo, a priest who dresses as a woman, and Saizo,...

This is it. The finale of the anime Godzilla trilogy. Part three supposedly closes the book on the tale of humans trying to reclaim Earth from that big reptilian monster. But Godzilla: The Planet Eater does suffer in the end with a rather confusing ending. Though after the credits role, one...