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*blows dust off thread* So apparently I wrote a review back in the day and never got around to posting it. I say that because I was using my original review thread as a guide for the posting order in this one, and I hadn't posted it there. As it turns out, though, I ended up writing an...

So AMC has purchased Sentai (which includes the HiDive streaming service) and I can't help but feel some trepidation over this. I'm kind of worried about more censorship basically...

I've been coming across a lot of reviews of Elfen Lied lately and I thought I'd share this one: It's an interesting take on the show, but while I agree that it has some qualities, this reviewer seems to have nostalgia for the show mainly because she identified and empathized with Lucy. Also...

Alas, this is the last review I wrote and actually got to publish (I had written one for Kids on the Slope but lost the thumb drive it was on before I could post it) and it was done some time ago. Since then I've not really ever gotten around to writing any more reviews aside from the occasional...

Patlabor: The TV Series (47 episode series) I had originally planned to watch this series after watching the original OVA and the first movie, but my anime group voted to watch it so I ended up watching this series first out of the franchise. From what I can gleam from reading about it, this...

H20: Footprints in the Sand (12 episode series) I honestly can't remember how this one ended up on my watch list, and now that I've seen it, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's essentially a fairly typical harem anime, with the typical silliness and, for me, eye-rolling shenanigans...

Venus Wars (1989 movie) One of the things about sci-fi, particularly older sci-fi, is that there tends to be a rather iconic mode of transportation associated with it, whether it's the Enterprise, a DeLorean DMC-12, a phone booth, or a police box, there just tended to be that kind of an...

Lily C.A.T. (Single episode OVA) This OVA is very much a product of its time – that time being the late 1980s. I say that, because it’s very obviously influenced by two very influential movies that came out in the decade prior to this OVA’s release (1987) – Alien and The Thing. Having seen...

I don't really like the idea. It's a classic series, and it seems kind of wrong to dub it, even if they would try to do a good dub that would stick close to the original script for it. Which brings in the other aspect, which is that I don't really trust anyone to do a good dub that closely...

Princess Jellyfish (11 episode series) I’m not sure what it is about shows like this that get so many of my fellow nerds excited. That’s not to say that I don’t like seeing shows about other nerds, as I liked Otaku no Video (come to think of it I should probably write a review for that show at...

Blade of the Immortal (13 episode series) While somewhat interesting to watch, and featuring fairly complex characters and ideas, I’d say that I found this series to be disappointing more than anything else. As the title suggests, it follows the exploits of a man who cannot die, or at least is...

Yeah, the first opening was obviously a rip-off of the Flash Gordon theme, which is exactly why the estate of Freddy Mercury took Studio Sunrise to court, which is why there was a different opening for the second season, which has now also replaced the opening for the first season on any new...

The Big O (26 episode series) I’m not quite sure what to make of The Big O. One the one hand, it’s a wonderful mix of film noir, pulp fiction, and old school giant robot anime, and on the other, it’s an odd mix of Twin Peaks and Evangelion. Well, to be fair, not having watched Twin Peaks yet...

My Bride is a Mermaid (26 episode series + 2 episode OVA) This show is basically a parody of harem rom-coms. I say “basically” because the sense I get out of it is that it tends to have its cake and eat it, too, when it comes to the tropes it’s raking over the coals. As you might guess...

Girls und Panzer (12 episodes + 7 OVA episodes) This series is what happens when you mix sports anime, Japanese school girls, and history nerd fap material. Which is to say that this series is essentially fluff with a focus on WWII tank combat, but with cute high school girls, since that’s...

Robot Carnival (1987 movie) It's films like this that really make me like '80s anime. An anthology, it showcases the work of nine different animation directors, some of whom were just starting out as directors. A more modern example might be Halo Legends or Batman: Gotham Knight, with the...

Fist of the North Star - Season 1 (109 episode series) I first learned of this series, which originally aired in '84-'87, from the Anime Abandon look at the 1986 movie. Looking into it further, I found that both the movie and the series were done by the same people at essentially the same...

I Dream of Mimi (3 episode OVA) This '90s vintage OVA is a guilty pleasure, and not just because of the nostalgia factor of the visual design. You see, this is an ecchi, which means lots and lots of naked boobies to those of you unfamiliar with animu terminology. ;) That automatically tends to...

Heat Guy J (26 episode series) I won a copy of this series at a panel in ValleyCon 2010, which was honestly about the only halfway decent thing ValleyCon had going for it. It then took me over two years to actually watch it, and having finally gotten through all of it, about all I can really...