From the director of Your Name , the only body-swap romance film I can think of that’s actually worth watching, the latest from animator Mak...

I can’t remember the last time a sports movie got me this worked. Hell, I’m not even sure there was a ‘last time’ for the effect this left...

Looks like keeping Music the hell away from my review schedule wasn’t enough to stop me from dealing with the topic of ‘inspiration porn’. ...

After narrowly defeating a Godzilla, only to discover that the original Godzilla is still alive and as monstrous as ever, humanity...

    It has been 22 years (or something closer to 20,000 years, due to the quirks of faster-than-light travel) since humanity left h...

  Transferring media born from one culture to the tastes of another requires more than simple copy-and-pasting. In order to make it...

  Time for something with a bit more personal investment to it than the last review. Fullmetal Alchemist, in no uncertain terms, is...

  It seems that last year’s Death Note movie has opened up the floodgates for live-action anime adaptations on Netflix. And what’s...

    The plot: While at the hospital, a mild-mannered high school student (Mahiro Takasugi) meets classmate Yamauchi (Lynn), who has ke...

Previously on this blog, I have discussed certain aspects of my own film-watching philosophy, in that I consider cinema to be an inhe...

Even though I have discussed anime on this blog a few times by now, I don’t want to give the impression that I even classify as an ota...

Yu-Gi-Oh!, otherwise known as the next step anime after Pokémon, has a rather complex history with yours truly. I watched the origin...

Makoto Shinkai is, in no uncertain terms, a genuine underdog story in the annals of anime history. Starting out by essentially goi...

One Piece is up there with the likes of Naruto, Bleach and more recently Toriko as one of the biggest titles in Japanese manga. Of c...

Given my track record for intros so far, I would bring up this guy’s simmering disrespect for Tim Burton as reason enough for why I do...

  Even if you’re too hesitant to venture further into the world of magical girls and giant robots, Studio Ghibli is that rare exceptio...

With how sequelised Hollywood apparently is nowadays, it’s understandable to get a sense of déjà vu from any given film. Or, to be a...

Pokémon: A franchise so big that it may one day topple Japan’s own government; a TV show that is one of the few anime series that every...