Anime Review: Space Patrol Luluco Luluco is a normal middle-school student who is trying to live a normal middle-school life in the decidedly abnormal town of Ogikubo. It’s the one place on Earth where aliens are allowed to mix freely with humans. Luluco’s father Keiji is a Space Patrol officer who helps dispense justice in… Continue reading Anime Review: Space Patrol Luluco
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Anime Review: Hataraki Man
Anime Review: Hataraki Man Hiroko Matsukada is an “editor” at Jidai, a weekly magazine. What this means in practice is that she researches and writes articles, as well as working with at least one outside author who submits a serialized novel for the magazine. At 28 and still single, Hiroko sometimes worries that she’s missing… Continue reading Anime Review: Hataraki Man
Anime Review: The Rose of Versailles
Anime Review: The Rose of Versailles In the Year of Our Lord 1770, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and King Louis XV of France decided to seal an alliance between their countries with a political marriage. Thus it was that Louis-Auguste (later Louis XVI) and Marie Antoinette were married. So it was in our world… Continue reading Anime Review: The Rose of Versailles
Anime Review: Active Raid
Anime Review: Active Raid The year is 2035 in an alternative history Japan, and the city of Tokyo is rapidly recovering from the Third Quicksand Disaster, which turned much of the metropolitan area into quagmires. Powered armor units called “Willwear” have helped the reconstruction immensely, and are spreading into other industries, but there are people… Continue reading Anime Review: Active Raid
Anime Review: Young Black Jack
Anime Review: Young Black Jack Black Jack was a manga series by Osamu Tezuka, about a renegade doctor who performs miraculous feats of medicine, but demands outrageous fees. (Unless he decides to do it for free or a token.) As Dr. Tezuka was an actual M.D. before he chucked it to become a full-time artist,… Continue reading Anime Review: Young Black Jack
Anime Review: One-Punch Man
Anime Review: One-Punch Man Saitama used to be an unemployed salaryman (white-collar worker) whose life was going nowhere. When a (relatively weak) monster attacked, Saitama remembered his boyhood dream of becoming a hero who could defeat any opponent with a single punch. He trained really hard, and became that hero…but if you can defeat any… Continue reading Anime Review: One-Punch Man
Anime Review: The Kindaichi Case Files Return
Anime Review: The Kindaichi Case Files Return Hajime Kindaichi is a high school junior who has a reputation for laziness and poor grades. His childhood friend Miyuki Nanase alternates between being sweet on him and irritated by his antics. What makes Kindaichi different from most teenage underachievers is that he’s the grandson of famous detective… Continue reading Anime Review: The Kindaichi Case Files Return
Anime Review: Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Anime Review: Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches Note: This review will have SPOILERS for the manga, so if you’re wanting to take the manga slow, check out my review of that instead. Delinquent high school student Ryu Yamada and honor student Urara Shiraishi accidentally discover that they can switch bodies by kissing. Then it turns… Continue reading Anime Review: Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Jotaro Kujo is a bit of a juvenile delinquent, sassing his mother, wearing his school uniform out of regulation style, and getting into fights. But when he notices that there’s now a strange being that only he can see and does things for him, like bring comics he… Continue reading Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
Anime Review: Silver Spoon
Ooezo Agricultural High School is the best agricultural vocational/technical school in Hokkaido, and farm kids from all over the territory come there to pursue an education. But there’s a different student this year. Yuugo Hachiken is from the big city of Sapporo, and for…reasons…has decided to join the dairy science program at Ooezo in lieu… Continue reading Anime Review: Silver Spoon