The Stone Tape (1972)
I’ve looked at a few Nigel Kneale teleplays from the 1950’s this year, and I thought it would be a nice change of pace to find one of his later works to review for this very blog. I truly believe that...
View ArticleHorrific Historical Photo of the Day
Background of the photo: “The age old adage home is where the heart is finds its true meaning in Miyakejima, a small island located in southeast Japan. Despite the high level of volcanic activity that...
View ArticleWhat Would Doctor Who Look Like as a 1970’s/80’s Japanese Action Show?
Related articles Japanese DOCTOR WHO Parody is the Weirdest and Best Thing Super Sentai Sentai-sim Chroma Squad gets three Japanese commercials The Biggest Boner You’ll Ever See on a Power Rangers...
View ArticleKick Heart (2013) Short Film
As promised, I’m going to review a newer anime today rather than sticking to the decade of my birth like my last few entries. This short film is one that many people have probably not heard of before,...
View ArticleIs the Valkyria Chronicles Franchise Dead in the West?
LONG Before I even decided to get a PlayStation 3, I would check the various recommendation threads and other such things on a lot of gaming forums to see what games were seen as the “killer apps” that...
View ArticleQueen Emeraldas Volume 1
I am so glad to finally read this! I’m a big fan of Leiji Matsumoto, so I was pretty disappointed with a now defunct anime company called ADV only releasing half of the OVA animated series that was...
View ArticleDigital Devil Story: Goddess Reincarnation & Digital Devil Story 2: Warrior...
It’s no mystery that one of my favorite videogame franchises is the venerable “MegaTen” series, which is shorthand for Shin Megami Tensei and encompasses a “main series” and its spinoffs. The first...
View ArticleVampire Hunter D (1983)
When I was a kid, perhaps too young to watch these sorts of films, I fell in love with the movie Vampire Hunter D when it used to air on The Science Fiction Channel (now called Syfy for some reason)....
View ArticleCyborg 009 – Call of Justice (2017)
For me, one of the most overlooked and underappreciated anime / manga franchises out there (at least in America) is the venerable Cyborg 009 series by the late Shotaro Ishinomori. Created in 1963,...
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