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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Makoto Shinkai’s third anime production was 2004’s ambitious full-length ninety-minute movie…
DoctorKev
Mar 22
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Voices of a Distant Star
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Voices of a Distant Star
Looking back, it’s remarkable that Makoto Shinkai’s second short film found international success so quickly, and that this would act as…
DoctorKev
Mar 11
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Cash Grab: To the Swordsmith Village Review
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Cash Grab: To the Swordsmith Village Review
2020’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train was an undeniable international financial success for Sony pictures’…
DoctorKev
Mar 2
Kaguya-Sama: The First Kiss That Never Ends, and How I Couldn’t Fall in Love
Kaguya-Sama: The First Kiss That Never Ends, and How I Couldn’t Fall in Love
I have a lot of mixed emotions watching Kaguya-sama: Love is War — The First Kiss That Never Ends, but almost none are in regards to the…
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
Feb 21
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — The First Kiss That Never Ends Movie Review
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War — The First Kiss That Never Ends Movie Review
Crunchyroll is definitely on a (crunchy) roll with their theatrical releases of late. Not only did they release the recent Laid-Back Camp…
DoctorKev
Feb 17
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: She and Her Cat
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: She and Her Cat
Often incorrectly identified as “the next Hayao Miyazaki”, Japanese filmaker Makoto Shinkai certainly found international success…
DoctorKev
Feb 2
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond: Review
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond: Review
2022 was pretty good for theatrical anime releases in the UK, so I’m optimistic that 2023 will be just as good. The first anime movie on…
DoctorKev
Jan 25
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
2022’s final anime season has seen fit to bless us with an embarrassment of riches. At least as far as Crunchyroll’s offerings go, this may…
DoctorKev
Jan 3
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: HIDIVE and Netflix
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: HIDIVE and Netflix
Last time, halfway through this ridiculously packed anime season, I covered some Netflix shows that I don’t have room to include again here…
DoctorKev
Jan 2
Laid Back Camp, Goodbye, Don Glees! and The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie Reviews
Laid Back Camp, Goodbye, Don Glees! and The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie Reviews
So normally I’d write full reviews of each recent anime movie I’ve been fortunate enough to see…
DoctorKev
Dec 11, 2022
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Netflix, HIDIVE and Disney+
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Netflix, HIDIVE and Disney+
It’s been a very busy season, with some incredibly high quality anime split across multiple streaming services. Last time, I covered…
DoctorKev
Nov 23, 2022
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
As 2022 crawls to a dark, cold, and wet end (at least in Scotland), what better way to keep warm in these depressing fuel-conserving months…
DoctorKev
Nov 20, 2022
Of Course You Can Step On…I Mean Tease Me: The Age of Tease is Upon Us!
Of Course You Can Step On…I Mean Tease Me: The Age of Tease is Upon Us!
Those who can effectively tease their crush have some serious skill. The age of teasing anime romances is upon us!
Marquan
Nov 6, 2022
Doctorkev’s Summer 2022 Anime Postmortem Part 2: Of Variable Quality
Doctorkev’s Summer 2022 Anime Postmortem Part 2: Of Variable Quality
The Autumn 2022 anime season already seems to be in full swing, but let’s take a brief pause from all of that new shiny goodness to finish…
DoctorKev
Oct 9, 2022
Masaaki Yuasa’s Inu-Oh Review
Masaaki Yuasa’s Inu-Oh Review
The latest in distributor Anime Limited’s 2022 Cinema Matsuri initiative, Inu-Oh follows the UK release of Pompo the Cinephile (which…
DoctorKev
Oct 2, 2022
Lucifer and The Biscuit Hammer Is A Mess
Lucifer and The Biscuit Hammer Is A Mess
Those of you who follow my work know I’m quite fond of dark subject matter, taking an interest in just about anything that tackles the…
Dark Aether
Sep 29, 2022
Doctorkev’s Summer 2022 Anime Postmortem Part 1: A Mixed Bag
Doctorkev’s Summer 2022 Anime Postmortem Part 1: A Mixed Bag
Wow, we’re already at the end of the season. How did that happen? It seems that last time I was only writing my halfway-through-the-season…
DoctorKev
Sep 27, 2022
A Welcome Change: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Review
A Welcome Change: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Review
One of the big four is back in theaters with a new film and a title that proves Akira Toriyama is as silly as ever.
Alistair Hyde
Sep 8, 2022
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
It’s a little later into the season than I’d normally like to write this, but I’ve recently been distracted by anime movies and sci-fi…
DoctorKev
Aug 25, 2022
Big Dad Energy: The Deer King: Review
Big Dad Energy: The Deer King: Review
UK distributor Anime Limited has long championed cinematic anime, most obviously with their annual Scotland Loves Anime film festival in…
DoctorKev
Aug 20, 2022
Heaven or Hell: Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
Heaven or Hell: Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- — which will hereby be referred to as Bastard!! because like hell I’m typing this out each time! — is…
Dark Aether
Aug 18, 2022
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko: Review
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko: Review
Morbid obesity (classified as a Body Mass Index (BMI) of above 40, where normal is below 25) is a growing health emergency in Western…
DoctorKev
Aug 14, 2022
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: New Shows
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: New Shows
Although Summer is somewhat quieter on the anime front compared to the previous Spring 2022 season, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty…
DoctorKev
Aug 11, 2022
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
What a great anime season it’s been! Winter 2022 was comparatively quiet, but Spring 2022 has brought both quantity and quality. Mostly…
DoctorKev
Jul 3, 2022
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Akira
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally watched and written about every animated production (available in English) contributed to by Katsuhiro…
DoctorKev
Jun 28, 2022
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