I don’t think I speak just for myself when I say that a lot of people in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan community were a bit skeptical of Equestria Girls. Despite what haters and websites such as Cracked were spewing, there were very few of us that were absolutely ecstatic to see our favourite characters ditch their equine forms for human ones. Every single brony saw Equestria Girls as it was: a cash grab, pure and simple….
Ah, good old Scooby Doo. Is there anyone among us who isn’t at least passingly familiar with one of the shows featuring the talking mutt and those meddling kids who made up his posse? Traveling in the aptly-named mystery-machine, solving crimes involving some sort of bogeyman, which would invariably turn out to be Old Man Caruthers (or some other seemingly benevolent older man), who had chosen to disguise himself in order to propagate some villainous scheme. Truth be told, I…
Psycho-Pass is one of those shows with a decent enough first half, only to drop the ball come the second batch of episodes. Honestly, Psycho-Pass never broke new ground even in the first half of the series, but what it did it did well. In a sea of moe titles, it was the first anime cop drama I’ve seen in a good long while, so that alone was reason enough for me to watch it. The first arc pretty much…
I haven’t seen all that many Ghibli movies, and the ones I have seen I’ve already forgotten. So forgive me if my agreeing with the majority that says Children Who Chase Lost Voices is a Ghibli-esque film comes off with some negative undertones. The story centers around Asuna, a young girl that stumbles upon the secrets of another world when she is saved by a mysterious boy who fends off a rather fantastical-looking creature. As expected, she is soon caught…
With two Makoto Shinkai works under my belt, I still wasn’t sure of the direction his movies were going. While both Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days leaned more towards romantic dramas in sci-fi settings, I remained skeptical as to how many different takes of the same theme Shinkai could pull off. Thankfully, 5 Centimeters per Second breaks the mold of the previous two movies, if only slightly. While 5 Centimeters Per Second…
I liked Voices of a Distant Star. It was the first Makoto Shinkai work I watched, and considering it was less than half an hour long, I think it was able to make the most of every minute it was allotted. Details and backstory that established the OVA’s world were given second seat to the characters due to its time constraints, and for the most part, I’d say it was the right call. The Place Promised in Our Early Days…
I’ve honestly never heard of Makoto Shinkai before the trailer for The Garden of Words came out, but the overall style and drama the trailer hinted at was enough to pique my interests. And whaddya know, a couple weeks later, crunchyroll just so happened to be streaming his better known movies for public visual consumption. How convenient. One of the first Japanese dramas I ever looked into in some form was Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet….
It’s been over three long years since Studio Khara’s brilliant Evangelion 2.0 graced our unprepared eyeballs and earholes with its fresh and exciting take on the classic anime series. Fans grew antsy and expectations ran higher than ever for this third film in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy to deliver the goods, and Neon Genesis mastermind Hideaki Anno knew he really had to shake things up with the newest installment to keep everyone flocking to theatres and DVD racks in…
For all the “Ragtag-Team of Lovable Warriors On A Quest To Save The World” stories and cartoons we’ve been fed over the years, you’d think adding another one to the pile would just result in a ho-hum, neat little cartoon that reminded you once again of how cool you thought this stuff was when you were maybe ten years younger. Whether it was The Slayers or The Pirates of Dark Water or whatever, you know at one point you loved…
The final episodes!