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Kuragehime | 海月姫 Anime Review by Ben Huber  Amamizukan: an apartment complex where no men are allowed. The women who live there are all otaku of some kind and have formed their own group called the Amars. Sounds like a setting for a romantic comedy, right? What would happen if we threw a new girl into the mix? And what if that girl was actually a man?Tsukimi Kurashita is an 18-year-old jellyfish otaku. She loves everything about them - the shape, their colors, the way they flow. She draws them all the time and aspires to be an illustrator. Her knowledge of jellyfish is extensive, and with the Amars she finds solace. Each of the women living there has some fixation, be it trains, traditional Japanese dolls, or older men. Read More... 
ガールズ&パンツァー Anime Review by Karen Gellender  Some shows are highly anticipated, due to either an exciting premise, an A-list creative team, or the presence of great voice talent: Girls Und Panzer was not one of them. In fact, judging by the promotional art, the show was largely written off as another copycat, girls-doing-cute-things show designed to appeal to hardcore otaku, with little appeal beyond them. Sure, there were tanks, but we all assumed they were just thrown in to appeal to history buffs, similar to Strike Witches with its WWII-era planes. Read More...
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun となりの怪物くん Anime Review by Ben Huber  Shoujo is filled with romances and slow progress, shy girls and handsome boys. All the trappings are there for a reason, but at times they grow old. However, when a show comes by that tries a new spin on those old motifs, it sticks out. Romance? Comedy? It's all here but the characters make everything work - My Little Monster is its own unique beast.Shizuku Mizutani is a dedicated student. She studies incessantly, obsessed with being the best in all her work. She enjoys the control she has over it: you simply study well, and you'll do well. Disciplined, icy, and distant, she quantitates and qualifies everything. If it can't be expressed as a math problem, it isn't worth solving. Read More... 
イクシオン サーガ DT Anime Review by Karen Gellender  There's something weird going on with Ixion Saga DT (short for "Dimension Transfer") where everything you can point to as a weakness of the show somehow works in its favor. Sure, the animation is nothing special and the character designs look like they were cobbled together from about eight different anime, but that just gives it a shoestring- budget charm. Sure, the plot may as well be nonexistent at times, but that's fine for a show where the main purpose is to make you laugh. Sure, the humor may be largely of the sophomoric variety, but who says everything needs to be sophisticated all the time?Camp can be a difficult vibe to capture, because aiming for "so bad it's good" often comes out just plain bad. However, studio Brain's Base has really nailed it with this show: a low-budget, self-deprecating fantasy comedy where it's clear that everything that's kind of messed up about it is 100 percent intentional. The result often feels like a smart show dressed up in disguise as a dumb show, much more appealing than the all-too common alternative. Read More... 
デッドマンワンダーランド Anime Review by Brian Cirulnick  Ferocious. Cruel. Sadistic. These are some of the adjectives I could use to describe Deadman Wonderland, but I'll settle on just one for now. Awesome. Sure, blood, guts and gore as well as physical and psychological torture might not be everyone's cup of tea. Heck, I wasn't that interested in watching it myself. However, the show's unrelenting pace combined with bang-on production value and deft direction made every episode strangely compelling. As each episode ends you're like "holy cow, I gotta' find out what happens next!" and so you start the next episode, only to have a bit more of the strange plotline revealed, a new character introduced, a new twist to the story, and a flashback revealing something that ties some of it all together. But never enough that you actually know exactly what's going on, or why. Read More...  |
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