“I didn’t take Lazarus for an anime adaptation of Driving Miss Daisy.” – Mumi on The Weeb Crew So yeah, the new show by acclaimed director Shinichiro Watanabe, about a select team of individuals sent to save the world from a mad scientist’s plot to kill most of humanity using pain-relief medication, wrapped up a few weeks ago. Short review: It sucked. Long review… Okay, good things about Lazarus first: It gave artists I like and respect paid work. I’m…
After years and years of begging for at least one Greg Weisman show to get a third season, the control brains gifted fans with a third season of Young Justice. One with higher stakes, with gore and sex you couldn’t get from a Cartoon Network airing. Seemingly cut plot points are rescued from cancellation hell, and you finally got to see what Darkseid was going to do after that cliffhanger from ages back. I could almost call it miraculous, if…
Picture yourself like this: You’re a new kid in school. The unwanted misfit of the class. No one there really likes you because you don’t act like anyone else, while your teacher spouts nonsense meaning nothing to your ears. The rest of the world is happy, naive, and wants you to smile no matter what you feel. Meanwhile, the higher-ups you’re trying to impress? They only see you as a never-ending nuisance. A pest trying too hard to impress and…
(this article has spoilers) When I found out Mari Okada was going to not only write a movie but direct it, despite having no prior experience animating, I was interested by that on novelty alone. The writer who has almost defined melodrama in this decade of anime sculpting a story from a whole other angle. Even if I’ve found little genuine enjoyment in most of her work, there’s still something worth taking notes on a writer whose developed an obvious…
So I was seeing all the hype for that Crossover Nexus short on Cartoon Network, and saw an interesting amount of fan attention to the titular character from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones pop up. And it was weird, because compared to the other Cartoon Network shows that aired in the early 00s, Robot Jones was like the stepchild. Only airing 13 half-hour episodes before disappearing into the void, as any fans the show could find desperately scrounged through their…
After two and a half years, Digimon Adventure Tri, the third installment in the Digimon Adventure subseries, has finally ended. And instead of praise or satisfaction, I can only feel malaise. A delirious, yet somehow sobering malaise. What was meant to be a milestone series celebrating 15 years of the Digimon anime finished on a halfhearted slog. One that did not highlight the fine points of the franchise or add new moments of gold, but only a reminder of banality…
As Trigger budded off from Gainax, the comparisons were inevitable from the very beginning. A two-cour mecha anime featuring heavy sexual imagery. A timid, teenage boy thrown into a cockpit and forced to fight giant monsters, while finding himself in a love triangle between a hot-blooded foreign girl in a red suit and a blue-haired girl whose feelings for said boy feel more familial than romantic. Even from the first episode, astute audiences took pictures, matched them up with screencaps…
At last, after over a decade of production talks and Zac Efron scented rumors, we finally have our American Death Note movie. Precious years have been spent to calculate the absolute best way to adapt the series into a film, and all those mountains of research have resulted in a movie where the blind guy from The Fault in Our Stars screams like a little girl for twenty-five seconds. Bask in this new picture, now that the pathos of Death…
I don’t like the Avatar comics. Everyone I read had so many large issues and little nitpicks that made Book 2 of Korra look pleasant by comparison. The Search was so bad that I wished they kept the story of Zuko’s mom an unanswered riddle if this was going to be their explanation. I could forgive them if they were just regular tie-in comics written by nobodies I had never heard of, but these were written by Gene Luen Yang,…
I hate having a film that I want to watch, but I don’t either because of lack of time, there are other things to watch, genuine forgetfulness, and so on. I’m seldom known for being on point the moment something important pops up. And while many films can hold that distinction for me, one that just kept getting away was Kubo. Meant to watch it on August, but no theaters around me had it. Meant to watch it on November,…