Existential sci-fi manga! Identity & control in Toward the Terra
Set in the infinite blackness of space, where single lives are like grains of sand thrown to the wind, Keiko Takemiya's Toward the Terra unfolds.
Category: Reviews
There’s just no escaping anime, is there? (Autumn 2018 impressions)
It’s Autumn in the UK now. It’s cold and wet outside, the nights are drawing in and there’s the first inkling of frost in the mornings. Don...
Great romantic fools: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
In 2017, Masaaki Yuasa directed The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, which is a film set in the same fictional universe as his 2010 series The Tatami Galaxy. I rea...
Girls’ Last Tour
A writer needs a reader, a singer needs an audience.
The unbearable lightness of Tamako Love Story
I had a little crush, recently. He was handsome and urbane, tall and well dressed. We talked late at night over a bottle of whisky. It felt out of control. It f...
The first rule of Bento Fight Club is: You do not talk about Bento Fight Club
(Bateszi reviewed this back in November of 2011, I’m revisiting it in light of Funimation’s upcoming February release of the show) A strong signal t...
As long as we stay here in this world all that's awaiting us is death
On the blu-ray packaging, Funimation trumpets the Eureka Seven television series as “The Greatest Love Story Ever Animated.” Where that series is ce...
Ghost in the Shell: The College Years
Ghost in the Shell: Arise marks Production IG’s attempt to reboot the classic franchise. With multiple successful superhero and anime reboots out in the ...
The best decoy ever
Is this the era of the sports anime? Without doing the research, it really feels like it, more so than at any other point in recent history, and what’s mo...
Blood tastes like iron
Even when there’s a guy like Masaaki Yuasa handling the adaptation of one of your favourite stories, there’s always a small worry that something won...