Category: videogames
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 Jeff - January 30 2010
The 1997 VHS release of Legend of the Crystals stands out amongst the releases of effectively-defunct Japanimation publisher Urban Vision. The majority of their catalog is firmly rooted in the "Not Kids' Stuff" marketing of the 1990s: violent and grotesq… more »
by Pete - January 29 2010
Though billed as a tie-in to a dating sim, True Tears breaks such shows' trademark tendency of using hideous character designs with distorted features indicative of developmental disorders. Nominal chromosome counts aren't the only distinguishing characteristic of the cartoon, which, name aside, turns out to have absolutely nothing in common with the eponymous visual novel. Yet, even as it fails to serve as an exploration of the game (which Wikipedia describes as a generic moe property), more »
by Colony Drop Staff - January 28 2010
If game-derived anime started anywhere, it started with Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach. It came long well before the modern plague of anime based on dating simulators, and it even predated the 1990s outbreak of direct-to-vi… more »
by Sean - January 27 2010
Battle Arena Toshinden managed to achieve some modicum of success in the mid 1990s by simple virtue of being one of the first of it's kind in the video game world. A 3D, weapon-based fighting game was a big deal in 1995 and it was one of the most popular… more »
by Colony Drop Staff - January 26 2010
I should put my hand up and admit it – when I picked up my copy of the Zone of the Enders game back in 2001 I was, like many, less interested in the mecha action promised by the game itself and more in the lure of the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty… more »
by Dave - January 25 2010
Art of Fighting has always been SNK's C-list fighting game, so it's not a surprise that Art of Fighting is on the D-list of fighting game anime, which is the F-list of videogame-based anime, which is the Z-list of Japanese cartoons on the whole. We're pr… more »
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