So underwhelmed am I by the current (Autumn 2019) anime season, that instead of keeping up with currently-airing shows, I’ve started digging into my Eternal Streaming Backlog of Shame. Autumn 2017’s Girls’ Last Tour has been in my sights for two years, as at first glance with its cutesy-characters-on-a-journey premise it seems both aesthetically and thematically similar … Read more
So many anime shows are about schoolkids at school, doing schoolkid things. I wonder if that’s a reflection of Japanese attitudes to adult life. Do they really believe that schooldays are the best days of your life? Once you graduate and become a wage-slave to some dark corporate overlord, then your life is essentially over? A … Read more
WARNING: SIGNIFICANT, DETAILED SPOILERS AND GRUESOME IMAGERY AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Don’t be fooled by the apparently child-friendly character designs on the packaging of this febrile descent into danger and madness, Kinema Citrus’ 2017 13-episode adaptation of Akihito Tsukushi’s web manga Made in Abyss. What appears at first to be a cutesy kiddie’s adventure story evolves … Read more