Anime

The feature-length epilogue to the Senpai is an Otokonoko TV series, Sunshine After the Rain, is a tender, introspective film that chooses quiet character work over flashy spectacle. Focusing tightly on Saki’s emotional crossroads while allowing Makoto and Ryuji to play meaningful but supportive roles, the film explores identity, family dynamics, and the slow, honest […]

#COMPASS2.0 ANIMATION PROJECT review: a battle anime that struggles to find its footing Promotional key art for #COMPASS2.0 ANIMATION PROJECT Quick synopsis: what is #COMPASS2.0 about? #COMPASS2.0 ANIMATION PROJECT adapts the world of the popular multiplayer battle concept into an episodic anime where summoned “heroes” clash in 3v3 matches with the support of human partners. […]

Based on Penguin Box’s beloved web comic Odekake Kozame, the feature film Eiga Odekake Kozame Tokai no Otomodachi transforms the short, warmhearted vignettes of Kozame-chan’s everyday adventures into a 90-minute cityscape stroll. The film balances a string of delightful mini-stories with a longer, more touching segment, centering on the themes of chance encounters, small acts […]

Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 4 Review: A Visually Dazzling, Emotionally Uneven Farewell After four seasons and several feature entries, Thunderbolt Fantasy arrives at its penultimate television outing with a season that shines brilliantly in spectacle but stumbles in narrative focus. Season 4 splits its attention between multiple converging factions—the spirit-beset trio of Shāng Bù Huàn, Juǎn […]

Nyaight of the Living Cat — a feline-flavored take on post-apocalyptic cinema. Nyaight of the Living Cat arrives as one of the more delightfully daft entries in recent anime, blending B-movie horror references with unabashed cat worship and absurdist comedy. At its simplest it’s a parody of zombie cinema where the shambling undead are replaced […]

A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 returns with more awkward arrangements, swapped-at-birth complications, and a messy love polygon that will delight some romcom fans while testing the patience of others. If you enjoyed the first season’s goofy charm, the follow-up mostly doubles down on the same beats — with a few new faces and the […]

Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex: A Charming Cinderella Retelling with Heart Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex takes a familiar fairy-tale outline and reshapes it into a quietly moving character study. Equal parts romantic comedy and thoughtful drama, the series follows Marie Shaderan — a neglected middle child whose life of labor and low self-worth is […]

Detective Conan — Conan vs. The Black Organization Detective Conan’s expansive world can be intimidating to newcomers: decades of episodic mysteries, movie tie-ins, and a slow-burning main plot revolving around the shadowy Black Organization. Conan vs. The Black Organization is an attempt to repackage the series’ most important canon moments into a tighter, more approachable […]

The middle stretch of You and Idol Precure♪ (episodes 25–36) leans into two clear ambitions: make the Cures believable pop idols and keep the franchise’s magical-girl heart beating. Those ambitions don’t always lock together cleanly. There are genuinely effective character moments and classic magical-girl beats here, but the season still struggles to fuse idol life […]

Seventeen-year-old Shiori Maezawa’s quiet life fractures when a humiliating social media post shatters more than her phone screen — it splinters her identity. Labyrinth, directed by Shōji Kawamori, folds teenage insecurity, idol culture and smartphone anxieties into a surreal tale where an anxious version of Shiori is trapped in a dark, digital underworld while an […]