So today I had to explain to my previously excited 10-year-old son why I was unable to take him to the cinema to see the new MHA movie along with his two older siblings. When I booked the tickets a few weeks ago, the film had not yet been rated. Turns out that the BBFC have since … Read more
As a lifelong anime fan, Hideaki Anno’s magnum opus Neon Genesis Evangelion holds a special — if tortured — place in my heart. Some of its darker aspects first lodged themselves into my psyche back in the late 1990s, when it became my number one teenage obsession…
THIS WILL BE SPOILER-FREE UNTIL THE UPCOMING WARNING 15 months. It’s been that long since I last entered a cinema, to watch My Hero Academia The Movie: Heroes Rising. As much as I appreciate the deluge of high quality TV anime we’re currently blessed with, my first love remains cinema. There’s something extra special about the bright … Read more
SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS FOR THE TV ENDING AND MOVIE FOLLOW So what, in the end, was all that about? If you’ve come to my review of Adolescence of Utena hoping that it will answer some of my lingering questions about the TV series’ finale, then you’ve come to the wrong place. It’s hard to describe what this movie … Read more
(Originally posted on 2019-12-22) So, this year, I added another personal anime “first” – I saw an anime movie in a theater. In fact, I saw two. Over the summer, I saw Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon: Arrow of the Orion, and then in the fall, I caught KonoSuba: Legend … Read more