Reviews

It’s almost Christmas, which means the Autumn 2024 anime season approaches its conclusion. Once again, I’ve watched over 20 shows, and this…

Considering the profound influence of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium on the the fantasy genre, it’s surprising there haven’t been more…

This is a movie I’ve waited five long years to see in English, and to my great surprise, Crunchyroll randomly dropped it onto their…

To anime fans of a certain vintage, Kenichi Sonoda’s instantly-recognisable character designs are emblematic of the late 80s/early 90s…

Embarking on an overview of an animation career as illustrious as famed director Hayao Miyazaki’s is a daunting endeavour, partly because…

Autumn 2024 brings with it a swathe of excellent new anime (and a few that aren’t quite so good). I’m mostly happy with my choices of shows…

Somehow, it’s already halfway through November, which means we’re halfway through the Autumn 2024 anime season. And what a season it is…

I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but despite being an anime fan since my childhood in the 1980s and 90s, I’ve never read a single page of…

“Art never saved anyone,” says protagonist Ayumu Fujino at her lowest ebb in this stunning adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki…

If there was one movie at 2024’s Scotland Loves Anime film festival in Glasgow that epitomised the sheer drive and creativity that new…

At only forty years of age, director Naoko Yamada’s career comprises an impressive number of excellent movies and TV shows. Her directing…

From day two of Glasgow Film Theatre’s Scotland Loves Anime 2024 film festival comes this adaptation of 2016–2018 Japanese serial novel…

Committing war-crime levels of emotional violence against your audience is certainly one way to kick off the fifteenth year of your annual…

“Why do they keep making My Hero Academia movies?” I asked my eldest son as we left the movie theatre. “I suspect it’s because they enjoy…

Everyone loves Harry Potter — even if you say you hate it, you love it. Calm down, Nathan, that was a joke, it’s okay I understand you’d…

Having recently covered this anime season’s middling selection of new shows, it’s now time for me to look at a far more exciting selection…

It’s been a while since I last wrote about anime — partly because I took a month or so off writing mainly for health reasons (a…

Kinoko Nasu certainly has a knack for writing terrifying women. From Witch on the Holy Night’s Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji, to Garden of…

Finally, I’ve reached the (probable) end of my enormous Ghost in the Shell (GitS) retrospective article series, with this, my 36th article…

Although my recent coverage of the vastness of the Ghost in the Shell (GitS) franchise lately has been nothing short of exhaustive (and…

Just when I think I’ve exhausted every single animated incarnation of Ghost in the Shell (GitS), my online detective work finds yet another…

Until recently, I had no idea this hardback book/DVD combo even existed — it completely passed me by upon its release in 2005. That’s been…

While it seems like the 2020–2022 anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 may be generally disliked (unfairly in my opinion) by the vast…

Some of this season’s anime really left the conclusion of their runs right up to the wire, only ending today on the last day of June! Some…