Series Reviews

Also known as “Noodle Fighter Miki”, which is pretty much what this show is about. Noodles and fighting - all revolving around Miki. Miki Onimaru is a girl who works in a chinese noodle shop and it seems as if she’s having a bit of a hard time…
There’s really no plot […]

I realize there are quite a few manga and anime titles with questionable sibling complexes, not necessarily incestuous in nature - but just…a bit “complex”. If you think this is weird, know that there are various western movies about this topic and that it IS a psychological phenomenon that occurs in real life so […]

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure — or in the case of Planetes, a story about trash turns out to be quite the treasure.
Where many science fiction anime seem to focus on aliens, mecha and/or cool spaceships, Planetes (based on the manga by Makoto Yukimura) takes a somewhat less epic and more realistic look […]

This is an overview of anime that are based on western novel series. Some of these series themselves may not be too popular in a general sense but I’m somewhat familiar with most of the original sources. A return to your childhood? Maybe not, but I think some of these stories are […]

As far as crazy ideas for a series go, Hikaru no Go is definitely up there. Based around a board game, there is absolutely no way that this series can be any good, is there? Oh, you bet there is. Hikaru no Go is a prime example of how good writing can make even the most laughably absurd concepts become incredible works of art.

Cowboy Bebop is a series that needs little introduction. It hit the world with a bang a little less than ten years ago and made its mark as one of the landmark titles of the twenty-first century.

There’s something about some shows that I just can’t be bothered with about half way or a quarter of the way. Either, every episode is the same and nothing happens for 25 episodes or by my own vices, I spoil it for myself and would rather not watch ahead. Also, I have a bad habit of not finishing things - books, movies, shows, essays, projects, you name it.

Criticized for being a lot like Cowboy Bebop+Trigun - is it really just a clone with lots of mixed elements? Not exactly; it doesn’t have a nouveau edge by far but it’s pretty entertaining. In fact, even though I watched it a year ago I still remember most of the characters and episodes. […]