Reviews

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’ […]

Takehide Hori returns to his wonderfully warped stop-motion universe with JUNK WORLD — a prequel to his cult phenomenon JUNK HEAD — delivering an unpredictable, grotesquely funny, and technically astonishing short feature that expands the world-building and body-horror comedy that made his earlier work famous. Set over a millennium before JUNK HEAD, the film follows […]

Fate/strange Fake has finally stepped out of the shadows and into the limelight. After years as a beloved Type-Moon side story penned by Ryohgo Narita, this reinterpretation of the Holy Grail War sets itself apart with an American setting, stolen ritual fragments, and a cast of characters whose motivations twist as readily as their Noble […]

Quiet, tender, and unexpectedly funny, Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days is a Fall-season high school romcom that quietly stole my heart. The series centers on the shy, eyepatch-wearing Tsuyoshi Yano and the warm-hearted Kiyoko Yoshida, whose gentle persistence nudges a lonely boy out of his shell. What begins as low-key slice-of-life comedy gradually becomes an empathetic exploration […]

Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack remains one of manga and anime’s most compelling antiheroes: a brilliant, unlicensed surgeon with a mismatched face and a moral code all his own. AnimEigo’s Black Jack: The Complete OVA Series delivers a haunting, emotionally resonant collection that brings Tezuka’s medical mysteries and social critiques to vivid life. This Blu-ray set […]

A Wild Last Boss Appeared! takes a familiar isekai premise—a top-tier MMO player suddenly transported into the body of their in-game character—and spins it into an engaging study of identity, legacy, and a world left fractured two centuries after its greatest conqueror fell. The series balances sweeping worldbuilding with bold visuals, even as its character […]