Anime Review: Tonari no Seki-kun (The Master of Killing Time) Rumi Yokoi is a high school student who wants to study hard and get good grades. But she’s constantly distracted by the boy sitting next to her, Toshinari Seki, and not for the reasons you might at first expect. You see, Seki is easily bored… Continue reading Anime Review: Tonari no Seki-kun
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Anime Review: Elfen Lied
Anime Review: Elfen Lied There is a secret laboratory off the coast of Kamakura, Japan. There a naked woman wearing an eyeless helmet, codenamed “Lucy”, is undergoing experimentation. When the helmet is damaged, allowing Lucy to see, she sets about freeing herself, slaughtering many of the lab’s personnel in the process. Yes, even the… Continue reading Anime Review: Elfen Lied
Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura Ataru Moroboshi is not precisely your average teenaged boy. For one thing, he’s an incurable skirt-chaser, constantly hitting on any pretty lady who happens by. Also, he’s incredibly unlucky. So unlucky, that when alien invaders declare that a random person from Earth must compete against their champion in a game of… Continue reading Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
Anime Review: Kobato
Anime Review: Kobato A young woman named Kobato appears in the city, bereft of memory. She is accompanied by a talking stuffed dog toy named Iorogi (Kobato always mispronounces it as Ioryogi.) It seems that Kobato has a wish she needs to fulfill by healing a number of human hearts, and only has four seasons… Continue reading Anime Review: Kobato
Anime Review: Tsuritama
Anime Review: Tsuritama Yuki Sanada is a high school student who has no friends and limited social skills. Whenever he’s in an uncomfortable social situation, Yuki freezes up with anxiety, depicted as him drowning. From the outside, his anxiety face makes him look wrathful and unapproachable. It doesn’t help that his grandmother’s job requires them… Continue reading Anime Review: Tsuritama
Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency
Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency This 2012 anime series was based on the first two story arcs of the manga by Hirohiko Araki. The series as a whole deals with the bizarre adventures of the extensive Joestar family, with protagonists having repeated “Jo” sounds in their names, thus “Jojo.” Phantom Blood takes… Continue reading Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency
Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
This last weekend at Minicon 49, I moderated a panel on “Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans.” As is common at this sort of thing, a lot of series and films were mentioned very briefly, and not everyone had the opportunity to write them all down. Therefore, I promised to put up a list. I… Continue reading Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
Anime Review: Magi: The Kingdom of Magic
Anime Review: Magi: The Kingdom of Magic This is the sequel to last year’s Magi: The Magical Labyrinth so please see my review of that show, and the Magi manga if you don’t want to be spoiled for those. After defeating another dungeon, our heroes are in high spirits. But soon new matters come up. Prince Hakuryu… Continue reading Anime Review: Magi: The Kingdom of Magic
Anime Review: Samurai Flamenco
Anime Review: Samurai Flamenco Masayoshi Hazama is an up and coming male model with a superhero fixation. Since superheroes don’t exist in real life, Masayoshi decides to become the first, as non-powered masked hero Samurai Flamenco. He goes out to fight minor crime like jaywalking and littering, and it doesn’t go well. His first adventure… Continue reading Anime Review: Samurai Flamenco
Anime Review: Kill la Kill
Anime Review: Kill la Kill In the indefinite future, Ryuko Matoi is the delinquent daughter of a mad scientist who arrives home after a long time away at school to find him murdered with one blade of a giant scissors. The killer, too far away to identify, has the other blade. Ryuko vows vengeance. In… Continue reading Anime Review: Kill la Kill