Author(s): 11
by Matt - August 14 2010
For the vast majority of its history, Studio Ghibli has been a two-man show. Recent years have seen new directors like Goro Miyazaki (2006’s disaster Tales from Earthsea) and Hiromasa Yonebayashi (last month’s reportedly excellent The Borrower Arrietty),… more »
by Matt - June 8 2010
And we all thought Tenchi would never get laid.To recap: the Tenchi Muyo franchise is, by and large, pretty insufferable. Tenchi, the story of an awkward, indecisive teen who nonetheless has babes from all over the universe clamoring for his attentio… more »
by Matt - March 5 2010
Hey y'all,This Saturday (i.e. tomorrow), I'll be appearing with such luminaries as Yamila Abraham, founder of Yaoi Press and Reno Avorellis, the Prince of Yaoi, at Denver's Animeland Wasabi, where we'll be stone cold jivin' about Masaaki Yuasa and Mam… more »
by Matt - January 31 2010
This is a Japtoon so mediocre, it doesn’t even deserve vitriol. No, the appropriate response to Tekken is almost certainly a simple sigh and a shake of the head. The last thing it deserves is for someone to acknowledge its existence in the form of a… more »
by Matt - December 10 2009
Tenchi Muyo. What anime fan of the 90s has not encountered this monstrous franchise in one of its many forms? Tenchi began as a six-episode OVA, which begat two further OVA series, two alternate-universe television shows, three movies, two manga series,… more »
by Matt - September 8 2009
Satoshi Kon’s first feature, Perfect Blue, was something of an oddity for a first-time anime director: a narratively-gripping, expertly-crafted thriller… more »
by Matt - June 16 2009
“September 21st, 1945. That was the night I died.”
With that punch to the gut begins perhaps the most emotionally devastating film in the history of animation. The magnum opus of Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies represents for many the legitimacy… more »
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