Anime Review: Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure

From left: Cure Wing, Cure Sky, Cure Prism and Cure Butterfly

Anime Review: Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure (Japanese title: “Hirogaru Sky! Precure”) Pretty Cure is a franchise series of anime shows aimed at preteen girls, which began in 2004 with Futari wa Pretty Cure (“We Two are Pretty Cure”). The recurring basic plot is that girls in their early teens are given magical items (usually by… Continue reading Anime Review: Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure

Manga Review: Mao Volumes 8-10

Manga Review: Mao Volumes 8-10 by Rumiko Takahashi Note: The following review has SPOILERS for previous volumes. Check out my earlier posts. Quick recap: Nanoka Kiba’s parents were killed in a bizarre car crash when she was little. When she’s a teenager, Nanoka learns that a local shopping arcade functions as a portal between the… Continue reading Manga Review: Mao Volumes 8-10

Manga Review: Mao Volumes 6 & 7

Manga Review: Mao Volumes 6 & 7 by Rumiko Takahashi Note: This review contains SPOILERS for previous volumes, if you’re just starting, you may want to look at the earlier reviews. Quick recap: Due to an incident in her youth, Nanoka has gained the ability to time travel back to Tokyo in the Taisho Era.… Continue reading Manga Review: Mao Volumes 6 & 7

Anime Review: Digimon Ghost Game

From left: Kiyoshiro, Hiro, Gammamon, Angoramon and Ruri. Jellymon is missing due to being evil this episode.

Anime Review: Digimon Ghost Game In the not-too-distant future, advances in hologram technology have made holograms ubiquitous in advertising, robotics, public services and other aspects of life in Japan. Some, it would seem, are even artificially intelligent. But there’s also been a spike in weird, seemingly paranormal activity, often involving creatures that appear to be… Continue reading Anime Review: Digimon Ghost Game

Book Review: The Book of Cthulhu II

Book Review: The Book of Cthulhu II edited by Ross E. Lockhart It’s spooky stuff month again, so I sat down with this thick volume (24 stories) of tales inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft for a couple of weeks. This is a sequel to The Book of Cthulhu that I reviewed earlier on… Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Cthulhu II

Anime Review: Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (2022)

Dark Schneider before his death.

Anime Review: Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (2022) Centuries ago on a planet named Earth, there was a great scientific civilization. But Man grew proud, and created its own new god, Anthrasax, Goddess of Destruction. Naturally, they could not control it, and the old world ended. Now, science is virtually unknown, magic and wizards are… Continue reading Anime Review: Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (2022)

Manga Review: White Night Melody 1

Manga Review: White Night Melody by Selena Lin Colleen and Jing Ping don’t remember much of their lives before they were turned into living dolls, though they believe that she was a princess of some sort, and he was a government official. They’re also fuzzy on most of their years as dolls before coming into… Continue reading Manga Review: White Night Melody 1

Manga Review: Attack on Titan Volume 3

Manga Review: Attack on Titan Volume 3 by Hajime Isayama Note: This review contains SPOILERS for the first two volumes. Three children were in the village of Shigashina on that fateful day. Eren Yeager, an aggressive young fellow who chafed under the restrictions imposed by the fifty-meter walls that protected his village and by extension… Continue reading Manga Review: Attack on Titan Volume 3

Manga Review: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection 1

Manga Review: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection 1 by Naoko Takeuchi Usagi Tsukino is a more or less typical fourteen-year-old girl. She likes food, video games, and sleeping, and dislikes homework and tests. She’s clumsy and a bit of a crybaby, but has a good heart and a kind streak. Also, she has… Continue reading Manga Review: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection 1

Movie Review: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

An early appearance by a cyclops, whose legs were deliberately made that way so people wouldn't think it was a man in a costume.

Movie Review: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) directed by Nathan H. Juran In a time when Baghdad was the city of cities, when the world was full of wonders, the adventurous merchant and ship captain Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) has captured the heart of Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) of Chandra. On the voyage home to Baghdad… Continue reading Movie Review: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)