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You think you’ve got problems? Yuzuku Otonashi wakes up with no memory. The first person he meets is a cute girl named Yuri, who is aiming a high powered rifle at another cute girl she calls Angel. It seems that Yuzuku is dead and that the afterlife is a high school. I can take being dead, but...

Time for a fantasy adventure! Lyria is a cute, young girl with powers that The Empire wants to exploit for war. Lt. Katalina takes pity on the girl and together they escape, meeting a young guy named Gran and his best friend Vyrn, a flying something-or-other. Anyway, Gran gets killed trying to...

When I heard that Your Name is the highest grossing anime film in history, I thought that either it would be great or it would be overtly commercial. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. Small town high school girl Mitsuha and big city high school boy Taki keep changing bodies. First they...

Ready for another apocalypse? A giant meteor is about to hit Earth destroying mankind. The good news is plans are underway to put people into a cryogenic slumber, and awake them in the future. Well, not good news for those chosen. As the name 7 Seeds might suggest, several teams of seven...

Maria Watches Over Us takes place at a prestigious all-girls school, where by tradition senior students adopt first year students as their “little sister.” One such first year student is Yumi, who is adopted by Sachiko. But what Yumi and Sachiko are unaware of is that alien invaders have...

It has been a while since I watched season 1 of Hero/Mask, and I seem to have forgotten many of the details. I was hoping season 2 would remind me, but no matter. Season 2, only nine episodes, goes in another entirely different direction. Detective James Blood is back, and this time he is...

Meet the Super Peace Busters, six young kids lead by a boy named Jintan, who like to just hang out and have fun together. That is, until one day when a tragic accident takes the life of Menma, an always happy, smiling girl who was the cutest of the group. Actually, Anohana: The Flower We Saw That...

Satsuki and her little brother Keiichirou are the new kids in town, going to a school where their late mother was once principle. Actually they are going to the new school, next door to the old haunted school. Mom had put all the ghosts to sleep in a woods behind the school, but now that the...

In a post-apocalyptic world, mankind faces extinction in the face of an overwhelming race of monsters. But one teenage boy will rise to the occasion and become the savior of the human race. Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s been done before, and maybe done better. And the first two or three...

Did you know that if you are careless with your possessions and ignore them, they will be stolen by foxes? True! At least it is true in the world of Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror. Haruka is a 16-year-old girl who lost her mother at a young aged. She is being raised by her...

I refer to this film as a “jokeumentary.” No it is not funny, at least not intentionally. It’s just a poor excuse for a documentary of any kind. With Enter the Anime, director Alex Burunova says she is trying to find the essence of anime. What makes it popular, and what drives the creators. ...

Whta are your favorite Claymation shows? Movies or TV.

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...