Review: Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)
Makoto Shinkai's ode to a generation is beautiful, if a bit overambitious.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- CoMix Wave Films
- Makoto Shinkai
- Your Name
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Review: Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu-hen
Scarred for Life
By David Estrella
- Review
- anime
- Kizumonogatari
- Nisioisin
- SHAFT
- Tatsuya Oishi
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Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
I watched it so you don't have to.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- movies
- Ghost in the Shell
- Masamune Shirow
- Paramount
- Rupert Sanders
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Review: A Big Mess 2
The miserably endearing life of "MessyOL Tokyo."
By Evan Minto
- Review
- manga
- A Big Mess
- indie manga
- MessyOL Tokyo
- Taco Che
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Secret Santa Review: Jyu-Oh-Sei
Shojo sci-fi ain't what it used to be
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- BONES
- Hiroshi Osaka
- Jyu-Oh-Sei
- Natsumi Itsuki
- Reiko Yoshida
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Secret Santa Review: The Boy and the Beast and Blue Exorcist
Of Fathers and Sons
By Jared Nelson
- Review
- anime
- Anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Blue Exorcist
- Mamoru Hosoda
- The Boy and the Beast
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Secret Santa Review: Sabagebu: Survival Game Club
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes with Guns
By David Estrella
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Pierrot Plus
- Sabagebu
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Secret Santa Review: The Tatami Galaxy
Masterpiece of a Mess
By Ink
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Masaaki Yuasa
- The Tatami Galaxy
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Review: Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu-hen
Kizumonogatari is the best animated film in theaters, and it’s not even over yet.
By David Estrella
- Review
- anime
- Akiyuki Shinbo
- Kizumonogatari
- Monogatari
- Nisioisin
- SHAFT
- Tatsuya Oishi
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Review: The Osamu Tezuka Story
The remarkable life story of the God of Manga
By Evan Minto
- Review
- manga
- Frederik Schodt
- Osamu Tezuka
- The Osamu Tezuka Story
- Toshio Ban
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Review: Under the Dog
No dogs, but a whole lot of murder.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Hiroaki Yura
- Jiro Ishii
- Kickstarter
- Kinema Citrus
- Masahiro Ando
- Under the Dog
- Yusuke Kozaki
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Review: VA-11 Hall-A (PC)
When life gives you dystopia ... make alcohol.
By David Estrella
- Review
- video games
- Sukeban Games
- VA-11 Hall-A
- visual novels
- Ysbyrd Games
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Review: Chambara (PS4)
The stealth multiplayer game where you’re supposed to screen-look!
By Evan Minto
- Review
- video games
- Chambara
- PS4
- Team OK
- USC Games
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Review: Firewatch
Gone Anywhere but Home
By Evan Minto
- Review
- video games
- Campo Santo
- Firewatch
- PC games
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Review: Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
A beautiful Metroidvania mix of cuteness and darkness.
By David Estrella
- Review
- video games
- metroidvania
- Momodora
- video games
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Review: Only Yesterday
Worth waiting for.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Isao Takahata
- Only Yesterday
- Studio Ghibli
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Review: The Perfect Insider
A puzzling locked door mystery in two timelines
By Phillip
- Review
- anime
- Crunchyroll
- Fall 2015 anime
- Hiroshi Mori
- Mamoru Kanbe
- noitaminA
- The Perfect Insider
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Review: Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers-
By Phillip
- Review
- anime
- Crunchyroll
- Fall 2015 anime
- Ishio Yamagata
- Rokka
- Studio Passione
- Takeo Takahashi
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Review: Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu-hen
Waking Up in the World of the Night
By David Estrella
- Review
- anime
- Akiyuki Shinbo
- Kizumonogatari
- Monogatari
- Nisioisin
- SHAFT
- Tatsuya Oishi
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Secret Santa Review: Samurai Champloo
"Fantastic! That’s the mystical orient for you!"
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Manglobe
- Samurai Champloo
- Shinichiro Watanabe
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Secret Santa Review: Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still
A boy and his robo(t).
By Ink
- Review
- anime
- giant robo
- Mitsuteru Yokoyama
- Mitsuteru Yokoyama
- Yasuhiro Imagawa
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Secret Santa Review: The Tatami Galaxy
For Want of a Raven-Haired Maiden
By Jared Nelson
- Review
- anime
- Masaaki Yuasa
- Reverse Thieves
- The Tatami Galaxy
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Review: Michiko and Hatchin
Bikes, booze, guns, and girls who know how to use them.
By Phillip
- Review
- anime
- FUNimation
- Madman
- Manglobe
- Michiko and Hatchin
- MVM
- Sayo Yamamoto
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Review: Your Lie in April
A monotone boy meets a colorful girl, and the gift that nearly destroyed him brings him back to life.
By Jared Nelson
- Review
- anime
- noitaminA
- Your Lie in April
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Review: The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition
No such thing as too much anime.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- books
- Helen McCarthy
- Jonathan Clements
- The Anime Encyclopedia