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ALICE IN BORDERLAND SERIES REVIEW Adapted from the manga of the same name, restless Japanese teenagers Arisu, Karube, and Segawa one day find themselves taken out of present-day Tokyo only to find themselves in an abandoned, even dystopian Tokyo. Soon they discover they are in the Borderland where they must play an increasingly challenging series […]

BLOOD OF ZEUS MOVIE REVIEW You ever some see a faithful adaptation of Homer’s mythologies? Yeah me neither. Welcome to another loose adaptation, but now in beautiful animated 1080p. (Take that, the spoken word). In this Netflix original tale of Gods and Man, we meet one of the many children of Zeus who must go […]

LUPIN III: THE FIRST MOVIE REVIEW Lupin III is a master thief, the grandson of a master thief (the fictional French character, Lupin) who is an outrageous badass. Also kind of a smartass. Your results may vary there. Here, in this brand new, big-budget, 3D CG feature film, he teams up with his old crew […]

DRAGON’S DOGMA TV SERIES REVIEW There be dragons! Or Dragon, in this case. After watching his family and his beloved village burned to ash, Ethan is surprised to have been spared. Rather than kill him, the beast rips out Ethan’s heart, ultimately turning him into an Arisen, a figure destined to face the Dragon and […]

JAPAN SINKS: 2020 MINISERIES REVIEW Ever wonder what an anime might look like if run by disaster director Roland Emmerich? Netflix presents the anime series directed by Pyeon-Gang Ho and Masaaki Yuasa (Devil Man CryBaby) based on the popular 1973 novel by Sakyo Komatsu, “Japan Sinks”. Japan is sinking. High School student and Track star […]

MY HERO ACADEMIA SEASON 4 TV REVIEW My Hero Academia returns for one of its darkest and most fascinating chapters yet with season four. On the heels of season three’s conclusion, we follow Deku (Justin Briner) as he and LeMillion (Ricco Fajardo) get entangled with an insidious plot involving the remnants of the Yakuza, led […]

ALTERED CARBON – RESLEEVED MOVIE REVIEW What is it about success that makes people want to release a prequel? Netflix is, no doubt, getting a lot of eyes on their grungy space-noir Altered Carbon (review for 1st and 2nd seasons here) and now we get this CG-anime prequel film. Taking place a few hundred years […]

BEASTARS TV SERIES REVIEW What happens when Zootopia and anime collide? BEASTARS happens! This CG anime, licensed for U.S. streaming via Netflix and adapted from a manga, is set in an anthropomorphic animal society divided by carnivores and herbivores. The story follows a wolf named Legoshi (Jonah Scott) who simply wishes to live a simple […]

MY HERO ACADEMIA – HEROES RISING MOVIE REVIEW ***WARNING: SPOILER TALK NEAR THE END*** The runaway anime hit My Hero Academia continues with a second cinematic outing. Heroes Rising surprisingly takes place closer to where the manga is now than the anime series, with the class of 1A setting up a practice hero agency to […]

WEATHERING WITH YOU MOVIE REVIEW Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed writer and director behind Your Name, has finally brought his almost as acclaimed follow-up to America with Weathering With You. The story follows Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo/Brandon Engman), a high school boy living in Tokyo during an exceptionally rainy season. One day, his path crosses with an […]