Anime

Carole & Tuesday Part 2 Review: Can’t Stop The Music

December 24 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This review of Carole & Tuesday Part 2 is spoiler-free. After concluding its Japanese broadcast, the second half of Motonobu Hori and Shinichiro Watanabe’s original...

Ultramarine Magmell Review: A Fresh New Anime That Promises Big Things And Only Just Fails To Deliver

October 10 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

What do you think would happen if, overnight, a new continent appeared on Earth? One with an entirely new and interesting eco-system full of exciting...

Seis Manos Season 1 Review: Netflix’s New Anime Series Is A Brutal Cultural Collision

October 3 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

New on Netflix today, the streaming giant’s on-going crusade for domination of every international market imaginable continues with Seis Manos Season 1, a fun, nostalgic hybrid...

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato Season 1 Review

September 13 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix Anime Series Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato Season 1 is impressive. It resides in the Industrial Revolution, where a virus has...

Modest Heroes Review: 50-Minutes, Three Anime Shorts

September 6 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix Anime film Modest Heroes follows the same structure as Flavors of Youth, with three animated stories presented to the audience and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose and Akihiko...

Kengan Ashura Season 1 Review: This Is Dope

July 31 2019, by Daniel Hart

This review of Netflix Anime Series Kengan Ashura season 1 contains no spoilers. I can understand why Kengan Ashura is super popular — it’s gritty, fast-paced...

7Seeds Netflix Review: Life Goes On In New Netflix Anime

June 28 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Adapting a long-running and beloved manga series with legions of fans is always a tricky prospect, but it’s a surefire way of enticing a guaranteed...

Forest of Piano Season 2 Review: Netflix Anime Continues To Appreciate Music

June 24 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix Anime Series Forest of Piano season 2 continues in the same vein as its predecessor. The creators of the anime understand the piano; what it...

Revisions Review: Mechas and Monsters

May 14 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Revisions feel like fairly standard fare that somehow manages to be inventive but incredibly familiar at the same time. It has some interesting ideas but some...

‘Baki’ Season 1, Part 2 Netflix Review

April 30 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Baki Season 1 Part 2 review is spoiler free. You can check out our thoughts on the first half of the season by clicking...

‘Ingress: The Animation’ Netflix Review

April 30 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Video games don’t exactly have a great track record when it comes to being adapted for film and television, but I suppose Ingress isn’t your typical video...

Ultraman Season 1 Review

April 1 2019, by Daniel Hart

I think one of the major problems with Netflix anime series Ultraman is that the lead protagonist Shinjiro Hayata (voiced by Ryohei Kimura) is a wafer-thin character...

‘Godzilla: The Planet Eater’ | Netflix Film Review

January 9 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

I reviewed the first film in this new trilogy, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, 12 months ago, and I was filled with such optimism. I...

‘Sirius the Jaeger’ | Netflix Original Anime Review

December 21 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Right on the heels of Hero Mask and Baki comes the latest Netflix Original Anime, Sirius the Jaeger, all twelve episodes of which debuted on...

‘Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas’ | Netflix Anime Review

December 20 2018, by Daniel Hart

The culturally relevant Retsuko the Red Panda is back for a one-off episode to embrace the festivities. Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas shows our little cute/angry character routinely...

‘Baki’ | Netflix Original Series Review

December 18 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Sometimes you just know what you’re going to get, and if the heavy-metal riff that opens the new Netflix Original anime Baki doesn’t tell you...

‘Back Street Girls: Gokudolls’ | Netflix Original Series Review

December 14 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

And on today’s episode of Things Only the Japanese Can Get Away With, I present to you the latest addition to Netflix’s wildly uneven stable...

‘Mirai’ (‘Mirai no Mirai’) | Film Review

December 12 2018, by Alix Turner

Mirai is the new anime written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda; known by some for a number of the Digimon films, and by others as the...

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas Review

December 7 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Today, over a year after the unacceptably popular six-episode first season of Netflix’s Neo Yokio, a long-awaited continuation of the series has arrived on the...

Hero Mask Season 1 Review

December 3 2018, by Daniel Hart

Well, I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised. Netflix anime Hero Mask opens up cooly, like a James Bond movie, with a pulse-racing soundtrack to open...