Secret Santa Review: Basquash!
The ambitious mecha-sports crossover that missed its shot
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Basquash!
- Satelight
- Shin Itagaki
- Shoji Kawamori
- Tatsuo Sato
- Thomas Romain
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Secret Santa Review: Hinamatsuri
Ten thugs shouting “Ouchy”
By Ink
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Hinamatsuri
- Kei Oikawa
- Studio Feel
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Review: Folktales from Japan
Folk Art
By Ink
- Review
- anime
- Akira Emoto
- Anime
- Folktales from Japan
- Yoneko Matsukane
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Review: Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man
Stories from Steve Alpert’s 15 years at Studio Ghibli.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- books
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Steve Alpert
- Stone Bridge Press
- Studio Ghibli
- Tokuma Shoten
- Toshio Suzuki
- Yasuyoshi Tokuma
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Review: Weathering with You
Clutching at the ambition and vision of your name.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Atsushi Tamura
- CoMix Wave Films
- Hiroshi Takiguchi
- Makoto Shinkai
- Masayoshi Tanaka
- Weathering With You
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Secret Santa Review: Megalobox
A beautiful, exciting resurrection of an anime classic.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Anime Secret Santa
- Ikki Kajiwara
- Katsuhiro Manabe
- Kensaku Kojima
- Megalobox
- Tetsuya Chiba
- TMS Entertainment
- Tomorrow’s Joe
- You Moriyama
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Review: Pokémon Sword and Shield
For Tsareena and Country
By David Estrella
- Review
- video games
- Nintendo
- Nintendo Switch
- Pokemon
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Review: Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho
Magic armor, gutsy attacks, and a host of Saints!
By Phillip
- Review
- anime
- Masami Kurumada
- Saint Seiya
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Review: Promare
The world’s number one firefighting idiot!
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Hiroyuki Imaishi
- Kazuki Nakashima
- Promare
- Sanzigen
- Studio Trigger
- XFLAG
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Review: Resident Evil 2 (2019)
Back at it again at Raccoon City.
By David Estrella
- Review
- video games
- CAPCOM
- Hideki Kamiya
- PC
- Playstation 4
- Resident Evil
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Secret Santa Review: Death Parade
Everybody, put your hands up.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Death Billiards
- Death Parade
- Madhouse
- Young Animator Training Project
- Yuzuru Tachikawa
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Review: Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls
The ultimate anime improv comedy experience, for better or for worse.
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- gdgd Fairies
- Koutarou Ishidate
- Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls
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Review: Fireworks
SHAFT’s most accessible “mainstream” work yet
By David Estrella
- Review
- anime
- Akiyuki Shinbo
- Fireworks
- GKids
- Nobuyuki Takeuchi
- SHAFT
- Shunji Iwai
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Review: Maquia – When the Promised Flower Blooms
Mari Okada’s directorial debut successfully merges high fantasy with a multigenerational family drama
By Evan Minto
- Review
- anime
- Bamboo
- Kazuki Higashiji
- Maquia
- Mari Okada
- P.A. Works
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Review: Goodnight Punpun
And Good Morning Depression
By John Smith
- Review
- manga
- Goodnight Punpun
- Inio Asano
- Viz
