Anime

When crossovers work, they can be more than a parade of cameos — they can deliver genuine emotion, a sharp sense of place, and a surprisingly coherent story. Isekai Quartet The Movie: Another World takes the franchise’s trademark character mash-up and elevates it into a proper cinematic adventure. The result is equal parts laugh-out-loud comedy […]

Prince Lloyd de Saloum returns in the second season of I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (briefly, 7th Prince), and this season takes a narrower, more focused approach than its predecessor. Where season one spread its attention across short, episodic beats, season two commits […]

100 Meters — poster 100 Meters is a quietly powerful sports drama that follows two sprinters from childhood to the professional track, asking the simple but profound question: why do you run? Directed by Kenji Iwaisawa and adapted from Uoto’s five-volume manga, the film blends rotoscoped realism with anime stylization to produce visceral race sequences […]

Promotional image for Kamitsubaki City Under Construction Kamitsubaki City Under Construction begins with a striking, apocalyptic tableau: a city in ruins and a young survivor, Kafu Morisaki, left to navigate a world transformed. Seven years after disaster decimates much of humanity, mysterious monsters called tesseractors emerge and only a handful of girls — witchlings whose […]

Cover: Cultural Exchange With a Game Centre Girl “Cultural Exchange With a Game Centre Girl” promises a cozy slice-of-life set in and around an arcade — a concept that should delight fans of mellow CGDCT (Cute Girls Doing Cute Things) and retro-game nostalgia. On paper it has everything: a British transfer student, arcade hijinks, and […]

Tougen Anki arrives as a familiar-feeling shounen: revenge-driven protagonist, a secret society hunting supernatural beings, and a school that trains those persecuted to fight back. While it checks most boxes for the genre, its execution alternates between striking visual moments and narrative choices that leave emotional beats feeling underbaked. Below I break down where the […]

Edge of Time Review: Beautiful Moments, A Fractured Whole Edge of Time is an ambitious four-part anthology that pairs Japanese and Chinese directors in a meditation on love, loss, and the human cost of war. With segments from Shinichirō Watanabe and Shuhei Morita alongside Chinese filmmakers Li Wei and Weng Ming, the film offers vibrant […]

Few animated films ask as much of their viewers as Angel’s Egg. Directed by Mamoru Oshii with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano, this brief, dreamlike feature collapses narrative convention into a sequence of haunting tableaux—an abandoned city, a mysterious egg, and two unnamed wanderers locked in a fragile, ambiguous relationship. The result is less a […]

Detective Conan: Rivals Of The Great Detective reframes a familiar franchise moment by filling in crucial character and plot introductions that strengthen later, darker arcs. Rather than advancing the Black Organization storyline, this season deliberately steps back to adapt canon episodes that establish Conan’s network—friends, rivals, and family—giving new and returning viewers the context needed […]

By day the Kisugi sisters — Hitomi, Rui, and Ai — run a cozy coffee shop. By night they become Cat’s Eye, a daring trio of art thieves whose heists are as stylish as they are mysterious. The new remake updates the classic heist sitcom formula for a modern audience, trading some of the 1980s’ […]