NOTE: Apparently this article never appeared on the original WordPress. The order is a bit fucked up, but it’s back now! Yeah, it’s that time again. Will it be better than last season? Well… Dog Days As a counter strike against an army led by a catgirl named Leonmichelle making its move, the republic of Biscotti must unleash their final trump card in order to stand a chance against this upcoming war. And as always, generic schoolboy #3262005 is up…
Not unlike a disgusting mass of countless maggots, the Clusterfuck has expanded since the spring. Evolved. It swells with decaying flesh and the thick stench of rigor mortis; anime is a horse killed long ago, one which continues to be beaten long after decomposition by Japanese studios shoveling out as many terrible comedies, fanservice extravaganzas, and lolicon incest fantasies as possible. Has the blistering heat of the summer improved things, or has the rot managed to envelop everything in its…
*General* There is a wide scope of shows that did not make the list for very specific reasons, be they because they all follow the same formula, or because of the time period this list was made in. A few of these were considered for inclusion on the list but for one reason or another, simply didn’t make it in. Keep in mind that just because they didn’t make the final list and are instead here is not because they…
Four shorts this month- two new blog entries and two previous entries, “Mickey’s Service Station” and “Thru the Mirror”. Instead of repeating my opinions on them, just read these. Now for the new shorts- The Band Concert (1935) Here we go, one of the big ones. This cartoon is regarded as being one of the most important from the 1930’s for being Mickey’s first fully Technicolor cartoon. Although the Silly Symphonies became colorized a couple of years prior to the…
I recently stumbled upon this fine fellow’s wonderful review of the upcoming 22nd volume of Excel Saga. Now, we here at Animation Revelation don’t usually review graphic novels, but I felt that I needed to make an exception in this case; Chris “Studly” Zimmerman’s review simply was not mentally deficient enough to provide a proper analysis of content or achieve his goal of delivering a brilliant critique on Excel’s latest misadventures. As you are no doubt aware, AR takes great…
This is a new series of articles that I and the rest of the crew are doing. It’s about reviewing the worst of the worst; stuff that’s already fairly terrible but that the person writing the review will hate more than the average person. So, let’s begin, shall we? ———- Ah, yes, Kiba, a generic shounen so insufferable that even fans of generic shounen consider it boring at best and unwatchable at worst. I really don’t want to watch this….
NOTE: This is about the anime adaptation. I like the visual novel – it’s good. Also, I wrote this over three years ago and acknowledge that it is very abrasive and kind of obnoxious. I’m only leaving it up for posterity. Please do not judge the rest of our blog on the merits of this particular piece. After discovering the existence of a PS3 port/remake of the original Umineko visual novel, I remembered that — against my better judgment —…
Going in, I expected an awesome action extravaganza about Samuel L. Jackson running around Tokyo with an unrealistically large assortment of firearms and explosives blowing shit up with a soundtrack composed entirely by Motorhead. After all, what else could an hour-long OVA entitled Black Rock Shooter possibly be about? The friendship shared by two middle school girls, apparently. This pretty much sums it up. What we’ve got here is a slice of life school drama masquerading as a trippy fantasy…
And no, I don’t mean this: Goddamn I love Excel Saga. I mean this: Goddamn I hate Soulja Boy. That’s right, Soulja Boy is back up in it (OH!), and this time he’s released not one, but two singles that rival his collaboration with Justin Bieber as worst song of the 21st century. And they’ve got to be pretty fucking bad to do that. Both of these songs just happen to be about anime. Now, before I begin my tirade,…
Yes, this series was finished months ago. Yes, no one heard about it or cared enough to watch it. Yes, I’m going to post a review for it. Have you ever been having sex and as you were nearing orgasm an obese hobo thrust himself into the room and ejaculated all over your face? No? Well, neither have I. But that theoretical semen… that semen would be Ookami Kakushi. This series not only proves that Ryukishi07 can rehash Higurashi, it…